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     Hi Everyone!
     
     I'm Colleen, and this is my first year growing giant pumpkins. I'm 
     really excited about it and am looking forward to this year's crop. I 
     live up in NH where my husband and I have a 55 acres horse farm. We've 
     got a large area specifically for our vegetable garden, which the 
     pumpkins will be part of.  They have a spot that gets the sun all day 
     long (on top of a little hill)  Anyways, here's a little history of 
     what I've done so far. Keep in mind I'm only a beginner! (It will be 
     interesting to see what kind of results I get.)
     
     (By the way, do I need to worry about my chickens trying to get at the 
     pumpkins? Our chicks go outside in just a couple of weeks and if 
     the're  able to fly over their fencing I'm sure they'll head straight 
     for our garden.)
     
     Colleen
     
     
     04/??/98    My husband disced our garden area and picked rocks at 
     least 7 times. Our land has to have more rocks than anywhere. I 
     suspect part of it might have been a rock dump for the surrounding 
     fields way back in time. My husband also added about 400 lbs. of lime 
     to the garden area.
     05/02/98    Planted 10 Atlantic Giant seeds directly into 2 1/4 inch 
     peet pots with Miracle grow potting soil.
     05/11/98    Moved peet pots to bedroom which is the warmest room in 
     the house.
     05/12/98    Added a little bit more potting soil to top of  peet pots. 
     05/14/98    First germination spotted by my husband. (it took 12 days)
     05/15/98    Moved peet pots back to the kitchen/dining room, where 
     they sit either on the kitchen counter or the dining room table.
     05/16/98    Transplanted to 3 inch peet pots. Roots were started to 
     pop out of the smaller peets.
     05/17/98    Gave one plant to next door neighbor.  9 peet pots left. 
     05/17/98    Planted all our other vegetables in our large garden. 
     Running out of room for the pumpkins.
     05/18/98    8 plants are looking great. 1 seed hasn't germinated.  I 
     remember it being a cracked seed.
     05/19/98    That one seed is coming up. Dug down into the dirt a 
     little bit and saw some green. A few plants are starting to get their 
     third leaf now. Our garden dirt looks pretty sad and we are wondering 
     how are vegetables are going to do. If they do poorly, next year we'll 
     haul in tons of good top soil for the area.
     05/20/98 -05/25/98 Acclimated the pumpkin plants to outdoors.
     05/25/98    Planted three of my pumpkin plants. Removed a portion of 
     the peet pots before planting. Placed milk jug wind breakers around 
     them.
     05/27/98    Planted two more of the pumpkin plants.  
     
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