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Starting from Scratch

George, Wayne and the rest of you guys:

I am planning on building a new garden close to my home that I can attend to
every day. My garden presently is a 25 minute ride from my where I live and I
am unable to give it the attention it deserves or requires. My new garden
will essentially be pumpkins only. I have cleared out an area in the woods so
that my garden will be 50 feet by 60 feet and get full sun. I am making a
raised garden by building a stone wall around the plot and filling in with
soil. The shallow end will have 2 feet of new soil and the deeper end will
have about 3.5 feet of new soil. The real soil there is rock, stone and 1000
year old humus, but mostly sand and stone. The original soil is not suitable
for a garden.

Anyway, my question is as follows:
I intend to plant four pumpkin plants near the center of the patch. I will
then train the vines of each plant to grow toward its own corner. Each plant
will essentially have a quarter of the garden for its personal use. I will be
using a modified Norm Craven Xmas tree pattern for the plant as I prune it.
This will give each plant 7,500 square feet of space. I intend to water the
central part of the garden, the area where the plants originate with a drip
watering system and this is probably where my largest effort at fertilizing
will be concentrated. The remainder of the garden will be overhead watering.
There is a deer problem and so I will have some electrified wire around the
perimeter. On the very perimeter of the garden I intend to grow a few tomato
plants, onions, garlic, beans, carrots etc but in very limited amounts.

What do you think and what suggestions do you have???

Marv Meisner in Altoona PA
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