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Updated Pumpkin Fanatic List

As requested by the land down under: (and so we can all laugh at ourselves)



So how do you qualify as a fanatic?  You must do one or more of the
following:

*Heat your soil with electric heating cable.
*Think money no object.
*Talk to your Pumpkin.
*Cover it with blankets on cold nights.
*Supplement sunlight with artificial light using 1000 watt Sylvania Metalarc
lamps,
 (Pumkinguy 1988).
*Build walls around the pumpkin patch to block the wind.
*Spend more time with your Pumpkin than your Spouse.
*Set up elaborate electric livestock fence to protect it.
*Build a Greenhouse over your garden in September to extend the season.
*Have a PC based program to track daily growth, weather conditions and
feeding
 schedules.
*Steal your neighbors leaves for compost.
*Subscribe to an Internet Pumpkin Mailing List.
*Put Magic Crystals in your Pumpkin Watering can to cleanse the earth, (some
sort
 of Australian ritual).
*Carve your Pumpkin into a boat and sail it across a lake.  (Pumkinguy again)
*Last but not least, kill a Pumpkin with kindness.

Of course I've never done any of those things!  

George
N. Tewksbury, MA USA


George
N. Tewksbury, MA USA
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