RE: How to Harvest
- Subject: RE: How to Harvest
- From: &* H* <s*@insmgt.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:18:34 -0400
You forgot the end where the strapping young lads hoist you on their broad
shirtless shoulders. They then carry you around like an Egyptian Queen while
praising your pumpkin growing prowess!
Meanwhile, your husband and I are fishing in peace and quiet.
Steve Haberman
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From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Kathie Morgan
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:07 PM
To: Hort Pumpkins
Subject: How to Harvest
Way we do it here in California
Hold a harvest party.
Buy approx. one case of something cold to drink.
Invite 16-20 of the youngest best-looking guys you know (with your husband's
permission, of course).
Take pictures of everyone with the pumpkin to be harvested.
Hand-select four guys to tip the pumpkin up on one side.
Slide a tarp, folded in half, beneath the fruit.
Then roll or otherwise wrestle the fruit back up on its other side and
unfold the tarp.
Everybody rests and drinks a drink.
Then you have the guys each take a handle of the tarp. Everyone ready?
At the count of three, everyone lifts at once.
When they do, a short fat elderly lady gets underneath and shoves a pallet
beneath the pumpkin-on-the-tarp. I try to get it centered beneath the
pumpkin and scramble out from underneath before the guys lose their grip and
collapse in exhaustion.
If you followed these instructions carefully, you now have a kind of layer
cake: pumpkin on top of a tarp on top of a pallet.
Here's where the forklift takes over and eases the layers into the bed of
the waiting truck.
Happy harvest to you all!
Kathie Morgan
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