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Re: Starting from Scratch

Marv:

Sounds a great plan. I wish you luck gettting it accomplished as I was
overwhelmed in try to get soil ready this year for my first growing season.
I'll be interested it hear what some of the more experienced growers say
about your size though, as I am growing 3 plants this year in 55 by 45 foot
area, and the plants have overrun each other. So I wish I had only put two
in there realizing that I would still have some overlap.

Jim in St. Clairsville Ohio

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> From: Lubadub@aol.com
> To: GBPUMPKIN@aol.com; Pumkinguy@aol.com
> Cc: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Starting from Scratch
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 7:48 AM
> 
> 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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