Re: planting date

> A good rule of thumb...60 days from germination to first pollination and 60
> days to when you can pick the fruit.
> However, the fruit will still grow till frost...or another 30 days or so.
> Good luck.
> David Bhaskaran
> Rochester, MN
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Sigel <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
> To: pumpkin listserv <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Sent: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 9:00 am
> Subject: planting date
> 
> 
> 
> I need some help with planting planning.  When should I plant my seeds?  I
> know 
> about weather considerations, but I don't know days to harvest on an AG.  I
> think it's about 112, but I don't know if that's from emergence, from
> planting, 
> or from pollinating.
> 
> This is what I think I'm s'posed to do.  I look at the date of the local
> weigh-off, then count backwards 112 days?  But to what?  To planting, to
> emergence, or to pollinating?  Thanks for any help.  Our local county fair is
> in 
> July now, so I don't think I'll be planning on showing a punkin there.  That
> puts the 112-day date back to late March.
> 
> We're going to create the mini-greenhouse today.  Not for the pumpkins just
> yet, 
> but for some other spring-like stuff, lettuce, flowers, tomatoes, etc.  And to
> provide a warm spot for the worms so I don't have to keep providing hot water
> bottles for them each night.  I took Leigh's off-list advice about keeping
> seeds 
> warm by putting jugs of hot water in a cooler, and  modified it to my worm
> bins, 
> which are in an unheated building.  I've been toting jugs of hot water out and
> putting them in the corner of the worm bin each night to keep the wigglers
> wiggling.  So far, so good.  We've had 15 degrees and the worms are still
> doing 
> OK.  I put a minimum-maximum thermometer in the bin and it's only dropped to
> 33 
> degrees, and it's always warmer down in the part where the wigglers live.
> We're 
> supposed to have another good break in the weather today, up to the 60's.
> It's 
> gonna have to do some doin' to get there, as it's only 18 right now.
> 
> This is the greenhouse we were going to put up last fall, and have good stuff
> all winter.  Oh, well, maybe it will work that way for next winter.  We'll be
> among those who aren't affected by the bad times ahead.  Maybe we can barter
> pumpkins for the necessities of life.  Maybe we can rent them out to people
> whose mortgages become unmanageable...if I can figure out the right time to
> plant my seeds.
> 
> ...and there he kept her very well.
> 
> cheers,
> duchess of gladstone
> 
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