Keeping my fingers crossed for you! Whew! That's one good thing about CA, our biggest Natural disasters are earthquakes, and I don't think they would do much harm to a 800 lb pumpkin. Good Luck Liz! Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: Zilclout@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:29 PM To: pumpkins@mallorn.com Subject: Hail in MN - getting ready for round 2 Casey, we had a similar unbelievable storm here too!! Had terrible golf ball
sized hail in the Twin Cities last night.
I raced home like a NASCAR driver from work to try and cover my pumpkin
babies that had only been in the ground a week (what we won't do for our
pumpkins...). The streets were like a green carpet with all of the leaves
that had been stripped off the trees by hail damage. I flew out barefooted
into the backyard only to feel the sting of hail balls underfoot and I was
sick. But, I found that my strongest plants -- 771.6 Rockwell, 656 Bhaskaran
& 910 Stellpflug only had some leaf damage, as did my other plants 805 Pukos,
834 Checkon, 570 Maston, 757 Thorson and 1026 Holland. Some of these had
pretty bad leaf damage, but no vine damage. My wind protectors had collapsed
onto some of the plants which protected them. I was really lucky,
considering all of the trees down and other debris in the neighborhood.
I guess now we will test the survival of the fittest theory!! More hail
expected tonight. Looks like southern MN is getting hit right now. Another
storm approaching from the Dakotas. Cover up those babies!
Liz
Minnetrista, MN
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