Re: Sprouting in pumpkin FLESH


     I read that too and tryed it out.  Nothing came up.  Indoors in peat
pots is the only way to go.

--- Reinsborough <moto@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> I remember reading in an old Organic Gardening magazine that said if you
> are willing to sacrifice one of your pumpkins in the fall by burying it
> whole, then next spring you would get a 2 to 3 week head start and a much
> stronger growth (plus many to select from)than the way we plant our crop.
> Of course, due to the size of our pumpkins, this would not be practical but
> there must have been some benefit to having the pumpkin flesh for the
> plants to feed on.....Ken Reinsborough
> rxpert@mindless.com wrote:
> 
> > I think the reason they sprout so good in the pumpkin is the warm moist
> environment, Like a greenhouse inside, and the seed is still soft because
> it has not yet dried and dosent have to be rehydrated after drying out.
> Also no fungus inside the pumpkin as long as it is still a sealed
> environment and has not cracked. I think trying to use some previously
> frozen pimpkin flesh as a growth medium will not be good, for one freezing
> breaks the cells open and it will be mush when you defrost it, and mold
> will grow on it then (unlike the sealed sterile environment inside the
> unopened pumpkin) as long as the pumpkin was bug free plowing the pumpkin
> back into the soil a lot of growers do to return nutrients to the soil.
> >
> >  ---- you wrote:
> > > I threw this concept into my daily "Garden Forum" on the Net.   The
> > > responses have been slated towards the concept that the flesh of the
> fruit
> > > is for the attraction of birds and animals which they do ingest the
> seeds.
> > >  It is Nature's way of spreading the seed throughout the countryside. 
> Did
> > > you ever look at eldeberry squirts on your aluminum siding?
> > >
> > > Another gardener has tried using the flesh, and had nothing but
> trouble.
> > > Everything turned moldy and fungus covered.
> > >
> > > Anyways, I still like the idea.   Try it.
> > >
> > > Bill Sadowski, Ohio, wind chills below zero tonight
> > >
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