Seeds for next year?
Already you guys are talking about the seeds for 2000! Incredible. I haven't
even cleaned out my garden or nearly gotten over celebrating the success of
the new pumpkin queen, Gerry Checkon and you guys are turning to philosophy.
This could be a very long winter.
I feel the biggest mistake I made this year was pulling out the 815 Checkon.
The vine was going the wrong direction, so I thought, and I pulled it. Wrong.
I was looking at a secondary vine. The main vine had wandered to another area
and was huge.
Meanwhile my LLoyd 935 did nothing. My friend's 935 developed a main vine
which ended up being very very wide and going nowhere as was the experience
of quite a few others, My vote goes to the Checkon 815 which produced a
pumpkin in the same garden as Gerry's 1131 which would have possibly topped
1200 pounds had it stayed whole. Meanwhile I am still smiling when I think of
Gerry and her new world record.
Marv in Altoona
Home of the Pumpkin Queen and for now, at least, "Pumpkin Capital of the
World"
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