RE: New Grower..needs help
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: New Grower..needs help
- From: T* B*
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:28:50 -0800
I grow a plant in 15/16 foot strip by 30 feet along one side of the backyard
this represent 25% of the entire backyard.
A compromise between the entire back (my view) and family - they want some
nice grass to play with.
This yields about 800 pounds of pumpkin - typically two or three on one
plant.
I did try your first idea but vines need roots and did not compete with the
grass. My belief (opinion) is that the size of the root system is slightly
more important than the leaf size.
Rototill a size lot that you can get away with (family compromise) and then
trim your plant to fit the size. In smaller size plots making sure each and
every leaf has at least one root is probably your most important factor to
getting good size "village-class giant pumpkin". Each leaf has the potential
for two roots but it does not always happen.
Good luck
tom
-----Original Message-----
From: rdi@dos.nortel.com [SMTP:rdi@dos.nortel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 1:36 PM
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: New Grower..needs help
Kirk, WQPO@aol.com, writes:
>...Can you plant in say a 6' x 6' area and let the vines run out
>onto grass
As a new grower myself, and making plans for "just how much backyard
lawn to rototill under?", I'll second this request...
Is it "adequate" (namely, for a "village-class giant pumpkin"-
several-hundred pounder here) to manure compost say a 6x6' or 8x8'
area for one plant's main stump living area, and then let the vines
run way out onto the lawn, burying it along the way, and
fertilizing the whole vine during the season?
Call me a wimp, but I'd prefer to acclimate the family into this
slowly, and not apply manure and rototill a 30x35' area of the nice
green lawn if I can avoid it! :-) Has anyone had any first-hand
success
growing the vines like this... relatively small main area with
vines out
on the lawn?
---
Rick Inzero, Rochester, NY, rdi@cci.com
Give me a medium speed ship and a fair-to-middlin' crew
For I mean to go where I feel a bit nervous.
:-) :-) :-)
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