Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!
That's terrible! Boy, I'd camp out and wait for those &%#@!! jerks! They
would encounter one mad manure-flinging housewife indeed! Is this occurring
on your own private property, or is it a community garden?
Gregory Sliwka wrote:
> 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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