Re: Question answers
Kathie,
In that case, I would try tying it back for a while until the pumpkin gets too big ... Push a wood or metal stake in the ground and tie something
about an inch wide to the leaf stalk and the stake. Gently pull it back out of the way for the time being ...
Bob.
Kathie Morgan wrote:
> Kevin Smith wrote:
> Kathie cut any leaf that will make contact with the pumpkin before it
> becomes a problem !!
>
> Kev,
> Last night I cut the leaf in question BUT over David's protests I left
> the second leaf that touches the pumpkin. Now I wonder whether it should
> also go. I like it since Punkie grows with its butt exposed to the
> back-fence neighbors, and this leaf covers its most unseemly parts. The
> CYA leaf, so to speak. But maybe it should go too. Its only point of
> contact with the fruit is leaf to blossom end - no stalk contact, in
> other words. Does it stay, or do I show it the door?
> Kathie
>
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