Re: Burying vs flowers
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Burying vs flowers
- From: b*@pacific.net (Vickie Brock)
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:45:30 -0300
>This is my first SERIOUS year with pumpkins, so I am starting to bury
>vines. (The weather in San Jose finally stopped being like what is going
>on in New England, so there are vines!)
>As I squatted there on my board, trowel in hand, I had this insight. If
>I bury all the vines, then I will have a great root system, but no
>flowers, and if I have no flowers, then why am I doing this at all?
>So what is the procedure for burying vines and yet leaving vines to
>produce flowers? Bury only secondaries, bury after fruit set? Bury x% of
>everything?
>Help please.
>
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John you try and bury as much as you can you have to wait till the
secondaries get long enough so you don't bury them and same goes with the
flowers
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