Re: I need you help....

Chris,
 
I've used diluted dishwashing soap to help dry out weeping areas before and really works. Just a suggestion, whoever did it might come back so I would try and catch them and talk to their parents and make an arrangement for them to help you out in the patch next year so maybe they will respect how much work goes into this hobby. Give them the hard jobs too, hauling manure, collecting leaves, burying vines weeding etc. Would be a good lesson for them
 
andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: i*@gardeningexpress.co.uk
To: p*@hort.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:52 PM
Subject: I need you help....

Help!
 
I came home after being away for two days on business (been to a trade show).  I immediately went to see my lone fruit in the patch and took off the blanket I cover it with at night to keep it warm.  I was fine, but I wanted to make sure there was some air.  Noticing it had grown a bit a grabbed the tape and it is now taping out at larger than the two I had last year, it's real beefy too! 
 
now the bad stuff.  I covered it back over for the night as it was already starting to get dark.
 
later I heard noises outside and went to check my baby with a smile that I could potentially have a record, especially if it keeps the sustained growth for another week or two.
 
but on peering under the tent, the blanket had been ripped off and was covered in mud, that's not a problem.
 
something, or someone, has hacked an area about 6" x 18" off near the base of the fruit, and it was covered in dirt.  dismayed I have spent a long time cleaning off the dirt as best I could by touch light and covered the area with diluted bleach.  what else can I do, I was hoping to have this here to show my aunts, uncles and cousins when we have a get together on 12th October for my 21st birthday. 
 
Chris
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: B*@msn.com
To: p*@hort.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Pumpkin went down

i hate moles they dig up my yard
 
----- Original Message -----
From: M*@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:57 AM
To: p*@hort.net
Subject: Re: Pumpkin went down
 
In a message dated 9/14/02 8:28:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, L*@aol.com writes:




)... I cut it off the vine, rolled her over, and
what was there ? The mole with his guts hanging out..


LOL....made my day rocky ...lol........how 'bout a Rockwell poem about the mole.....G


  Didn't make my day. I felt bad for the mole. Come on people have a heart.

           Alan R.

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