Re: Hosting

Wow, what a wonderful response from a real nice community! I am
confident I made a great choice about giant pumpkins and cant wait to
meet some of you guys /gals at a weigh off or where ever we will
gather.
What happened is this; I was fired from my job in the end of Nov. By
this time I had already read quite a few books,other literature as
well as navigated the web and found myself digging a couple of 3x3x3
holes and honestly by now I forgot why I dug those holes but they are
out there and this is where I deposit my 10 gallons of daily chicken
manure from my 112 chickens as well as kitchen scraps. Anyway Knowing
I wanted to grow giant pumpkins, I started searching for seed. I made
sure I purchased seed from a dealer that was able to tell me the
parentage of my seed and frankly I can not even conceptualize a
pumpkin that is 14 ft in diameter and almost three quarters of a ton!
But with my last paycheck, I made sure I would at the very least have
2 seeds and became a member of the NYSGPGA as a Christmas gift to
myself because I love me! So thanks for all those wonderful offers for
seed, but I have obtained some. I also want to write to my colleaugues
at Cornell University. I am a recent graduate from Cornell and I hear
there is a current graduate student in the field of plant genetics
whose subjects are Giant pumpkins and he is growing them in Israel. I
want to try to obtain a few of those to see what may happen if I cross
it with a Dill Atlantic;  it is doubtful that will happen this year.
For now I will print out this email and give it to my boss at Swain
Ski resort and they will take the neccesary steps to make this happen
since they sounded sincerly enthisiatic about it.
 My original idea was to grow this kickin' pumpkin near my fronatge,
next to my pond to attract business for my free range eggs and herbs(I
grow dandelion and other medicinal weeds/herbs). But what I seem to be
harvesting most right now is poop! Love them chickens!I was planning
on planting a couple pumkins so that I can invite the community to a
carving of the smaller one and I also wish to hold bible studies in
the pumpkin patch.  Afterall the garden is a homesteaders chapel!
Thanks all so much for your wonderful advice and helpful information,
Bridgette


On 1/12/08, edjoan <edjoan@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> Hi Bridgette,i am from Canada and that would be a good way to promote
> pumpkin growing, this is my 9th year and i have a 2007 seed that should do
> well for a beginner a nd it should be orange. Edmund Hemphill  506-375-6412.
> I wish you the best in 2008.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bridgette Antoinette Tojek" <honeybempowered@gmail.com>
> To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:55 PM
> Subject: Hosting
>
>
> > Dear Pumpkin growers, I am a new member and very new to competitive
> pumpkin
> > growing. My cousin last year gave me her left over seeds and a few
> happened
> > to be pumpkin and I decided to put a mound outside my bedroom window so as
> > to see green well into the fall. Well I got hooked, I never enjoyed
> watching
> > something grow and thrive in my garden more than this one vine.
> > Anyway, I work seasonally at a ski resort in Western NY. I suggested to a
> > manager that the fall festival should include the hosting of a giant
> pumpkin
> > weigh off and they loved the idea. How would I go about making this
> happen?
> > What can I tell my boss, or who can I direct them too?
> > I cant think of a better use of my chicken manure and every time I shovel
> > out my coop, I visualize my pumpkin growing bigger and juicier! I swear my
> > vine had a pulse!
> > Please let me know,
> > Bridgette
> >
> > --
> > If I were any more empowered, Id be illegal!
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