Re: cursed seed
- Subject: Re: cursed seed
- From: K* R*
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:50:05 -0400
Scott,
never put anything on the skin,but a shadecloth is a must once the fruit
grows out of the leaf canopy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott_Armstrong@LNOTES5.bankofny.com
<Scott_Armstrong@LNOTES5.bankofny.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: 21 July, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: cursed seed
>In case anyone out there has an armstrong 301 from last year, DON'T PLANT
>IT!! so far, out of all the people that i knew for sure were planting it
>have met terrible fates.
>1. gave seed to a friend of my moms, insects (undetermined) completely
>destroyed the plants at the 5-7 leaf stage,
>2. gave seeds to woman at work, an oppossum ate a pumpkin off the plant,
>and apparantly the rest of the plant was destroyed as well
>3. gave seeds to a coworker, who passed them on to his girlfriends father,
>a groundhog got them just as they were starting to vine.
>4. (this is my favorite by the way) gave seeds to a friend, his neighbor
>backed over the plant, and pumpkin on the vine.........with a bulldozer.
>
> Anyway, anybody out there ever experiment with putting something on
>the skin of the developing fruit? something to keep it "soft and supple"?
>
>scott
>
>
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