Re: I'm in the game!
- Subject: Re: I'm in the game!
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:25:49 PDT
Well, here is some advice. You can use a small peice and never have to
move it. Just put other peiced next to it like your making a puzzle. Then
you never have to move the peice underneath. Just add peices as you go
along. I found this works well for me because if I start out with a large
peice things like water form on the outer edges where there is no pumpkin
and then that water seems to run into the middle where the pumpkin is and
then I have to lift the pumpkin to dry underneath it instead of lifting it
to put under new larger peices. Try the puzzle method. I think it is the
best.
>From: Bob and Alice Attaway <attaboy@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: I'm in the game!
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:00:51 -0400
>
>Randy:
>I made one mistake more than you have to date.
>Whatever you put under your pumpkin put a big piece, when I got my first
>pumpkin I placed a piece of styrofoam about a foot square, since then I
>have replaced that
>piece of styrofoam 3 times, put a BIG piece of whatever.
>Bob Attaway
>
>
>Hughes-Banderob wrote:
>
> > 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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