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Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree

Hey Tony are you listening?  I think this has all the possiblities of a
poem, perhaps not an epic poem, but what about a sonnet?

Keep us posted to news on the new "tree pumpkin" sounds like fun.

Granny Pat

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> From: Stephen Dunning <Stephen_Dunning@Douglas.BC.CA>
> To: Bart Toftness <toftness@mindspring.com>
> Cc: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree
> Date: September 7, 1997 8:36 PM
> 
> Hmm....  Believe it or not, I now have a pumpkin growing in one of my
small
> vine maples.  I let it set after my big pumpkin split.  Will let you know
> how it goes, whether I get the goo and all.
> 
> Who knows, this could be the start of a fad?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> At 02:58 PM 9/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >All of the pumpkins on my Greer 1006 have split very early, so when a
side
> >vine grew out of the patch and started up a small tree I let it go. 
After
> >all, what's the worst thing that could happen....grow a pumpkin!  Well,
> >sure enough it set a pumpkin about 4 feet up.  As it grew in size, it
began
> >to pull the vine down and it became a curiosity.  I began to think I
should
> >release the vine but what the heck, if it wants to grow in a tree who am
I
> >to stop it.  About once a week I would go look to see how it was
> >doing....getting closer to the ground each week.  This week it is VERY
> >different.  It looks like an exploded water balloon and below is a mass
of
> >jello like goo.  I cut it off. The stem was still fine but the top half
of
> >the pumpkin was a paper thin shell with nothing inside.  I guess your
not
> >supposed to grow pumpkins in a tree.
> >
> >Bart
> >Wallingford, CT
> >
> >
>
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