Re: shading the fruit prt2
Marc,
May be some kind of natural fiber cover, a soft screen, helps to
shade your pumpkins during few hours daily...
Miguel
At 11:31 AM 5/18/00 -0500, you 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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