Re: I'm back......
Glad to see your back............wayne
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From: GBPUMPKIN@aol.com <GBPUMPKIN@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Cc: AndreaRay@aol.com <AndreaRay@aol.com>; PUMPKNFLOWR@email.msn.com
<PUMPKNFLOWR@email.msn.com>; Bptgshaw@aol.com <Bptgshaw@aol.com>;
atlantic@alphalink.com.au <atlantic@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 9:45 PM
Subject: I'm back......
>I've only occasionally sent an Email to the list since August. Been
sitting
>by the sidelines since then. By mid August it was evident that the drought
>and heat had taken it's toll and caused my Pumpkins to start maturing
early.
>It started in late July, it seemed no matter how much I watered the sub
soil
>would just suck it away. After the blow out of the Living Dead last year,
>(potentially the biggest Pumpkin I would have ever had), and then this, it
>really got to me. You would think after all these years I would be use to
>this but I guess not. So I decided to just walk away from the patch. I
>didn't even go to the Topsfield weigh off.
>
>I did end up with two between 550 and 600 but they were headed for much
>larger. I have a large backyard Orchard that was in need of water too, so
I
>switched my attention to that. It turned out to be a good decision, when
the
>rains finally came in early September (9/10 4.80"), the trees responded and
>gave me the largest crop in the 27 years I've been growing Apples, 201
>Bushels. The watering had sustained them just enough till the rains.
>Tending to the large crop consumed all my time.
>
>Well, tonight I tilled the Patch and I'm trying to look to next year. Over
>the next few weeks I will try and catch up on Emails. Some of you sent me
>some messages I might not have answered, hope to find them and answer them,
>though a bit late. I will also update everyone on my soil experiments.
>Though the Pumpkins did not produce any results you can count on because of
>the drought some other crops showed some surprising results. Talk to you
>soon.
>
>George Brooks
>N. Tewksbury, MA
>25 miles NW of Boston in the Merrimack River Valley
>
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