Re: Newbie needs help Western Canada

Ernie, If the Alberta weigh-off is to far, I've been going to the weigh-off in Roland Manitoba. It's always first Saturday in Oct., and they put a heck of a show on for being a small town. They get around 30-40 pumpkins entered, so it's a great place to gather information and meet other growers.How'd you like to swap some of your giant tomato seeds with some of my pumpkin seeds. I've grown 5 in last 3 years over 700#, with largest 837#.If interested, get back to me and we'll swap addresses. Steve(pumpkinpiper@hotmail.com)

>From: Giant Veggies
>Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Newbie needs help Western Canada
>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:02:29 -0600
>
>Hi folks:
>
>The following message I posted on a yahoo news group and thought
>since I signed up here as well I would post it here too. Any help you can give is
>much appreciated. By the way there are no weigh offs here in Saskatchewan Canada
>heard of one in Alberta about a 10 hour drive from me, How can I get one started.
>(funny thing) I was at coffee this morning (local stomping grounds) and was telling a guy I
>was going to grow giant pumpkins he said his neighbour and about five others last year had
>a bet amongst themselves to see who could grow the largest pumpkin. $5.00 each the largest was
>63lbs. any ways here is the post.
>
>Hi All:
>Looks like membership is filling up nicely, if you know friends that
>grow giants invite them to join our group would you, the more the
>merrier. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/giantveggies101/
>
>My Post today has to do with Watering and fertilizeing Giant
>Pumpkins. To give you a little back ground on myself I have been
>gardening for about 8 years now with the usual veggie's except for
>tomatoes or should I say GIANT TOMATOES which average 4 to 5 lbs per
>fruit. I use heirloom seed only never hybrid and never buy store
>bought seedlings, I start most in my grow station (just built a new
>one over the winter the super deluxe model(but that's another e-
>mail)) except for the direct seeding in the garden. I use square
>foot gardening for growing except tomatoes. I have learned quite a
>bit and am still learning, I live in Saskatchewan Canada and start
>planting the first to middle of April (yes with snow on the ground)
>
>Getting to the question, while trying to get new info on growing
>giant tomatoes I kept running across Giant Pumpkin Growing. After
>much reading I was hooked and decided I would try it this year I
>even went as far as buying a vacant lot next door to our house off
>the city. So I now have a completely open 50' x 125' lot to use as
>my new garden (drule).
>
>I have learned alot but I can't seem to find info on watering and
>proper fertilizer, yes I have read people water every 4 to 5 days
>and people using 20-20-20, 15-15-30, etc.
>
>What I plan to do is take a 15'x15'(is this large enough space per
>pumpkin???) patch x2 for two patches to grow a couple pumpkins put
>in soaker hoses criss crossed through the patches to ease in
>watering plus I have an electronic timer set-up on the water tap
>like in ground sprinkler type sort of. I was thinking watering each
>patch once a day for say about an hour (enough or to much???) plus
>adding miracle-grow with each watering. Once a week feeding each
>patch with compost tea and every other week adding 15-15-30 after
>fruit set. What do you think not enough to much ??? your help is
>greatly needed as tomatoes are a little different I water them every
>3 days and with miracle grow, compost tea every week.
>
>As far as the patches go they will be brand new I will be bobcating
>off the top 3" of soil(weed seeds etc.)tilling the ground then adding
>60% top soil,30% compost,10% manure. hopefully with ph of 6.5 - 6.8
>total depth of new material 12".
>
>Well this is quite long so I will leave it with you and hope some of
>you know the answer. By the way if you need info ask because I have
>alot of tricks I've learned
>
>TTYL
>Ernie
>Moderator
>Giant Veggies 101
>

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