RE: Covering vines
I've seen vines buried deep with no ill effect and others buried, only
to rot due to too much moisture so soil types, may have varying effects.
I usually dig a shallow trench and just cover the leaf junctures so
I can monitor the vine between the junctures. I've also left some
unburied and later found huge tap roots on the bottom.
Even if left unburied but kept moist additional roots will form on the
top, curl over and find there way to the soil.
Either way, more roots, more nutrients being processed to feed the
pumpkin??
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Mike Nepereny
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:24 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re:Covering vines
I really really starting to think that covering the vines in dirt may do
more harm than good. The original idea I believe was to encourage
rooting of
the feeder roots that appear at each leaf junction. With this mind, what
good does covering the entire vine do? Is even burying the leaf
junctions
really advantagous? Is it truly generating more feeder root activity?
Its
not hard to see how submerging all the vines in dirt might introduce
some
problems. I have 9 plants going this year so I may be rationalizing a
bit.
All that vine burying sucks!
Any thoughts on this?
Mike
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