Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #

I haven't composted coffee grounds since I thought they were too acidic.




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From: Mary <mwhitehead@pei.sympatico.ca>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:23:57 AM
Subject: Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #

OK..now you all have to sit down and give me some serious tips on preparing 
the ground. coffee grounds???? my soil is sandy and last year was a right 
off but I am determined 09 will be our turn!
Mary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hatcher, John" <JHatcher@ciena.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #


> Great mail, Diana! I'm going to till the plot this weekend, work my 500
> pounds of Starbucks coffee grounds in one more time.  I smiled picturing
> your husband at work and then chuckled out loud at the worm bin in the
> computer room.  Thanks for sharing!
>
>
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>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:37:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Diana Sigel <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
> Subject: warm day and fertilizer
>
> Well, it's a warm day in Kansas, 73 degrees at 2:30 in the afternoon.
> It's brought out the craziness in the two of us.  My husband, who's
> delayed two years to put up a bird feeder in the yard, got excited about
> my goal to grow the first 1,000# pumpkin in Kansas, and has just
> finished putting 12,500 gallons (he says it's only 7,500 gallons, but I
> can count, too) of liquid manure on my 1/4 acre pumpkin patch.  Warm
> days in Kansas bring out the weirdo in all of us.  All I did was get my
> seed out and fondle them a little.  Calculated how big an area I was
> going to need.  He got out the tractor and the manure.  The wind is
> wafting in from the southwest, toward the house.  Ahhh, the joys of
> country living.
>
> Good luck to you all.  I think it's going to take about a million
> gallons of water when the temperature gets to 105 in August.
>
> My biggest thing until today was starting a worm compost bin in the
> computer room.  This is really big.
>
> cheers,
> duchess of gladstone
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