Re: Advice and Oregon Update

HMBDON wrote:
> 
> As the vines grow they will lye down on the ground.  Once you have a 3 maybe 4
> feet vine on the ground I dig a narrow 2-3" trough below the vine and then put
> moist soil over the top of it completely covering the vine.  It is especially
> important to cover the vines well at each leaf (the leafs are usually 12-18"
> apart).  The plant will then send out new roots at each leaf.  Once the vine
> has out grown the space I will cut it off just past a leaf and cover it with
> moist soil.
> Good luck!
> Don
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you did the little trench lay the vine in it cover gently with dirt the
roots develop at the leaf nodes ..... the plan is continuing to grow in
the little trench.  when it starts to grow past the little trench you
made do you then bury the fron to keep it from going forward ?  Or will
the fact that you "burried" the vine
causing roots to develop by leaves hold down the plant and prevent it 
from going forward, making it strong.  
Last year was my first year.  I buried when it ran out of trench it 
would start up again I wasn't sure what the h..l to do.  Also when 
the pumpkin started growing I severed the roots from a few leaf nodes
to releave the pulling stress of the vines on the pumpkin.  I also had
another problem too many flowers on the same vine?  

Thanks
Teri from NY southern tier
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