Re: Newbie with a question
I'll second that!
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: JOHNSON, MARNA <MARNA.JOHNSON@po.state.ct.us>
To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com' <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: 09 January 2001 21:27
Subject: RE: Newbie with a question
>OMG Vince!
>
>I just have to express my excitement over the fantastic job you did with
>your Adventures of Diana Doucet page! I have been lurking in the
background
>of the list since signing on, soaking of all the great information with
>little to contribute in return - BUT -- I just happened to click on your
>link, and for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of viewing the
>Adventures of Diana Doucet, you are really missing out on a very
informative
>and extremely well done site. I hope to get approval to share it with the
>kids at the school where I work. Our personal bests were first year 133
lb.
>squash and second year 230 lb. Atlantic Giant Pumpkin. With all the help
>from all you experts out there, I know we can't go wrong.
>
>Thanks ever so much Vince for the great site and to all, for the wealth of
>information.
>
>Marna
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vince [d*@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:19 PM
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: 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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