RE: Flying/Swimming Pumpkins
That is so Kool!!! I would love to see that video... maybe you can send a
copy to one of us on this site (like me) then I could pass it to the next
person on the list. Or let us know when it is going to be on the Americas
Funniest Video!!!
Polly Jones
ToTo-Land Kansas
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> From: Steve and Kim Freed[SMTP:asset-management@email.msn.com]
> Reply To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 1:42 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Flying/Swimming Pumpkins
>
> Harvesting California Style,
>
> You are not going to believe how I harvested our 11 Prizewinner and two AG
> pumpkins.
>
> I grow our pumpkins on a steep hill in our back yard. The plants grow in
> raised beds two feet deep and the vines grow up the hillside. To keep the
> pumpkins from rolling down the steep hill they have to be supported by a
> platform of two inch thick Styrofoam on top of concrete blocks. The low
> end of the hillside ends at a 10 foot retaining wall that is above my
> swimming pool. I had three friends helping me harvest the first pumpkin
> when one of them stepped on a vine and sent a 100 pound Prizewinner
> pumpkin rolling down the hill and dropping 10 feet down into the pool.
> Wow, we all got a great laugh out of that and the splash was huge. We
> then tried to get the 175 to 250 pound pumpkins off the hill but we did
> not have enough people to lower them over the high retaining wall down to
> the pool deck. We then figured that if one pumpkin could survive a leap
> into the pool, why not try it with a bigger pumpkin. We carried a 210
> pounder to the edge of the 10 for wall and let her drop. It went down
> about 7 feet deep with a huge splash and then bobbed to the top undamaged.
> By this time we had a crowd of 12 ladies and children and they were all
> falling down they were laughing so hard. By the time we finished we had
> 13 pumpkins bobbing in the pool and only two cracked. We got most of this
> unusual harvest on video tape and are considering sending it in to the
> Americas Funniest Videos TV show. I just thought some of you may
> appreciate the crazy things some of us pumpkin growers have to do to get
> the job done. We are lucky we harvested when we did or the 7.0 earthquake
> we had the other day would have started all the pumpkins rolling down the
> hill.
>
> Steve
> Beverly Hills, CA....Home of the flying and swimming pumpkins
>
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