Re: shading the fruit prt2
Hello,
The shading can be small and inconspicuous, just shade the pumpkin, not
the whole area. Stay away from the loud colored, ugly plastic, go with
earth tones, no one will see it.
Tom
Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Zone 5a
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Nguyen, Marc wrote:
>
> I got an email the said that many large pumpkins are/can be grown w/o the
> use of shading. If the skin is kept moist and cool, is this true?
>
> Only reason I'm pondering this is because I just told my fiancée that we may
> have to have a big tarp contraption in the backyard because of the pumpkin
> and she wasn't too happy with it. She's still letting me do it, but I have a
> feeling it's gonna cost me in the future. :)
>
> Also, how early to you shade and when do you stop?
>
> Thanks for all the advice you guys are giving, it's helping A LOT. I thought
> I had an idea of what I was in for when I decided to try this, but I just
> had a couple of leaves in the pumpkin patch when I needed to have all the
> leaves in the patch!!!
>
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