Re: 62 to 75 square feet per pumpkin; area limits size uniformity?

I know this is pumpkin chat usually but if anyone has had great success with
heirloom tomatoe varieties please clue me.  Thanks

jmorse2@columbus.rr.com

Go Bills!  I hope they are on fox tomarrow, its tough being a bills fan and
living in Ohio.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark K" <korney19@adelphia.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: 62 to 75 square feet per pumpkin; area limits size uniformity?


> Vince, thanks for your weight conversions and encouragement; the numbers
are
> slightly less than the chart in Book II. I don't know if I'm more
frightened
> of growing just one plant and having something go wrong like disease,
> critters, etc, OR growing something that I'll have to buy a tarp & many
> cases of beer for helpers to get it out of the yard. I'm slightly
> handicapped and even have trouble getting any of this year's pumpkins out
of
> the yard, let alone a single big one next year. And let me say thanks to
Ray
> Waterman for offering help with my groundhog too. Ray, I may need your
help
> next year.
>
> I've been selling much of my heirloom tomatoes the last couple months to a
> local guy who made it big with a 4-star restaurant. He came over & bought
> the 247, 276 & 105. I kept the one off Cliff's seed with "Zunino blood"
for
> myself & will grow it next year. Chef Andy is gonna carve the pumpkins &
> said they may appear on the Fox Network during the pregame show or the
> Bills-Redskins game, maybe coming back from commercials; the guy is the
> "official" chef for the Buffalo Bills and has done many of the Super
Bowls.
> Sunday they are having a party for Darryl Talley, a former Bill, and
another
> former Bill, Bruce Smith, will be in town for the Bills-Redskins game.
Smith
> & Talley are best buddies, Talley will become the 20th honoree on the
Bills
> Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium Sunday and Bruce has a chance to set
> the sack record during the game; think he needs 2 to pass Reggie White as
> the all-time sack leader. Talley never missed a game during his 12-year
> career with the Bills and last November he was announced as one of the
> nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. If I remember what Andy said,
> one will look like Talley's jersey with name & #56, another will have the
> Fox logo or something to do with Fox, as they will be broadcasting the
game,
> 4:15 Eastern Time. Don't know about the 3rd pumpkin. I know for some
reason
> the game was pushed back from 1pm to 4:15pm EDT, I think to accommodate
Fox.
> I still have to hook up with him tomorrow to get some seeds.
>
> While this year wasn't a personal best year for me, it was for total
weight.
> And if any of the above media stuff comes to "fruition" or if anybody at
the
> party comments about the pumpkins, then this year will be
> rewarding/successful after all.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of
> vince
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:27 PM
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: Re: 62 to 75 square feet per pumpkin; area limits size
uniformity?
>
>
> Ok, here are the estimated weights:
>
> Pumpkin A:  227" OTT - 247 lbs.
> Pumpkin B:  236" OTT - 276 lbs.
> Pumpkin C:  231" OTT - 260 lbs.
> Pumpkin D:  167" OTT - 105 lbs.
>
> So that's 888 pounds of pumpkin from 300 square feet of soil and three
> plants. Not bad. Not bad....
>
> I think you could have grown an 800+ pounder by growing one well-cared-for
> plant in the same area.
>
> vince
>
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