Re: Newbie with a question

Hi Karen,

If your daughter likes Cinderella pumpkins, she'll
love Prizewinners.  They are a similar bright reddish
orange color - only bigger.  This year I grew 4 one
hundred pounders on one plant. Last year I grew a 150
pounder by limiting the number of pumpkins on the
plant to two. The kids love them, (see attached photo)
and they make great carvers for Halloween.  They are
prettier and easier to handle than 500 pound AG's.  It
is my experience that Prizewinners have better disease
resistance than Cinderella's or AG's.

A good source for Prizewinner seeds is Burpee's Seeds,
http://www.burpee.com/

If you would rather grow a pumpkin that your daughter
could crawl inside of email me privately at: 
diana_doucet@yahoo.com.  Be sure you have lots of
strong friends if you want to get the thing out of
your patch.

I recommend misters for the heat when it gets over
about 90 degrees.  I misted my AG's this year for the
first time, but I didn't mist my Prizewinner.  The
plant would wilt some in the heat of the day but would
always spring back when it cooled.  I believe that
they take the heat better than AG's.

You can find my adventures in growing AG's this year
at this site:

http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/saga.htm

It's sure more fun than growing rutabaga.  Good luck!

vince

fourth year grower
best 2000 Athena - 789 lbs
zone 9 - the pumpkin zone


--- Karen von Bargen <von2@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>   I have just joined the list and was hoping someone
> could hold my hand
> and give me a hint as to a good source for seed. My
> daughter refuses to
> let go of the Rouge d'Etampes (French for incredible
> productive)
> pumpkins we grew last year, so we are still
> decorated for Halloween.
> This is fine with me, but we would like to set our
> sights somewhere
> else. I was hoping to acheive new successes this
> year with A Big Pumpkin
> as opposed to A Prolific Pumpkin. Would someone let
> me know of a good
> place to buy seed? It would be nice to grow a
> pumpkin that was bigger
> than my daughter (35 lbs.) and then slaughter it for
> Thanksgiving for
> everyone in a tri-county area.
>   I have also moved to an area that is HOT in
> summer, which will be a
> new experience for me. I was hoping to get some
> strategies on how to
> keep a pumpkin plant alive in HOT weather. Any and
> all advice will be
> taken under consideration as I haven't a clue what
> I'm doing.
>   Can anyone tell me anything about milk feeding a
> pumpkin?
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> Karen von Bargen
> San Martin, California, near the Silicon Valley

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