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Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree

I once had a volunteer Connecticut pumpkin plant in the back corner of the
yard.  Turns out the vines got pretty jumbled.   I finally got in there at
the end of the growing season, and found a 20 lb pumpkin dangling at the
8ft level off of a plum tree.  It had a beautiful 2ft long stem.
(Question: do all tree grown pumpkins have long stems?)    The plant had
sent one tendril up the plum tree, into the neighbor's yard, and 20 ft up a
neighboring acacia!  Sneaky little devil.

Last year the volunteer was a banana squash.  It grew over the shed and
into the redwood.  I had 10 lb squash dangling like Christmas lights from
the branches.  Fun, as long as none of them fall on you.

	Dan
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