Re: a serious question
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: a serious question
- From: G* <G*@aol.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:31:20 EST
In a message dated 98-01-23 12:15:52 EST, you write:
<< Subj: RE: a serious question
Date: 98-01-23 12:15:52 EST
From: MikeN@optiosoftware.com (Mike Nepereny)
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "You might be a giant pumpkin grower
if..."
Any takers? >>
*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)
*Do work only to be paid in Manure for your Pumpkin Patch.
*Last but not least, kill a Pumpkin with kindness.
George
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