Re: I'm in the game!
- Subject: Re: I'm in the game!
- From: W* K*
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:56:18 -0400
If you manage a pumpkin for the weigh-off at either the Orono Fair or Co-Op
contest in September....I will bring my tarp over and give you a hand to
load it.............Wayne
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> From: Hughes-Banderob <hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: I'm in the game!
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 9:16 AM
>
> For once I'm not here asking for advice or presenting a silly newbie
> question. I'm here to state that I'm finally in the game!
>
> Despite my naivete to AG's (and gardening for that matter)...
>
> despite killing off my first set of plants by burning them under a
> homemade cloche...
>
> despite planting my second set of plants too late...
>
> despite cramming three plants (grown from off-the-shelf seed) into an
> area which could not even properly hold three tomato plants...
>
> despite over-watering my plants to the point where mushrooms were
> growing around the roots...
>
> despite fertilizing my plants using a broken watering can because my
> hose and spayer won't reach...
>
> despite using no insecticide and only squishing cucumber beetles using
> my fingers (and allowing a toad to reside in the patch)...
>
> despite having fruit after fruit abort...
>
> despite all these set backs, I have finally met some success. I have a
> 10 day old fruit which is long and watermelon shaped with a
> circumference of 30" and I have a perfectly round fruit which at 9 days
> has a circumference of 20".
>
> I may not set any records but I'm finally in the game! Thanks for
> everyone's help. Now, where can I rent a forklift? hmmmm...
>
>
> Randy Banderob
> Millbrook, Ontario
>
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