PLEASE HELP!!!!
List,
As some of you may know, I had vandals visit my patch last year damaging
or destroying 3 of my larger pumpkins. Unfortunately they have returned
this year. Sunday I discovered a section of my fence was pulled down and
a stake which had been plunged into one of the smaller pumpkins ( I also
found an empty bottle of Bacardi which would seem to rule out animals).
Although the weigh-off is still 25 days away, I have reluctantly decided
that I will pull the pumpkins and put them in my yard for safe keeping.
Although weight-loss is inevitable, I would like to keep it to a minimum
as one of these pumpkins could be a new personal best for me. What
tactics should I employ to keep the loss down? Would digging up a
section of the vine and placing its roots in dirt or water help? Should
I put the ends of the vine in jugs of water? Is there something I can
coat the outside of the pumpkin with to reduce water loss? Finally what
are the odds that pumpkins picked now would last untill Halloween? They
would be stored outside and we still get weather in the 70s and 80s this
time of year. Thanks in advance for the help.
Getting that "sinking" feeling again...
Greg "Titanic Atlantic" Sliwka
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