Re: small space advice

In a message dated 7/5/2001 5:47:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
tjm4@mindspring.com writes:


What does a young plant do if it gets nipped before
fruiting? I get the impression that nipping secondaries
is not so bad, please correct me if I'm delusional, and
what about the main?



You nip the secondaries a couple feet shorter than the confines of the patch
and wrap the first secondaries around the patch......the main reaches the end
and you make a right or left turn and wrap that, hoping for a set female
before the main hits the actively wrapping around the patch first secondary.
Once you've turned the main, all secondaries from the turn onward get clipped
off ---except the last two on the outside side of the patch. These are your
"Kitchen Secondaries". You've used up all your patch and wrapped the mains
til they met the secondaries and still no set pumpkins? Well, thats when you
strike a deal with the wife to let your "kitchen secondaries" run out onto
the grass. This usually costs you dearly...it cost me a kitchen renovation,
thus the name "Kitchen
secondaries"................................................G
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