Re: Pumpkin strip.
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- Subject: Re: Pumpkin strip.
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:17:33 -0700
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:15:43 -0500 stanberry
<stanberry@knowledge-tree.com> writes:
>Pattie:
>Depending on how creative (or how big your family and friends group
>is) may
>I recommend that you get
> 1. cucumbers (some love! to climb fences - especially with a
>little help
>from ties made from the cutting strips from plastic trash bags)
> 2. depending on how good/bad the soil is- cantaloupes.
> 3. any of the squash family: pumpkins, winter squash, spaghetti
>squash,
>acorn squash, zucchini, summer yellow squash, etc
> 4. if the deer aren't extremely terrible you can use the fence to
>support tomatoes also.
Unfortunately. 1. My deer love to eat the cucumber flowers and those
that get to be cucumbers, well, the deer take one bite out of each.
2. My deer love to eat the flowers off of these as well.
3. My deer love the squash family of flowers and really love the
zukes that make it to the baby stage.
I grow tomatoes, peppers, onions, cantaloupes, zukes, strawberries,
grapes, cukes, gourds and some other things inside my electric
fence. That is the only way that I get anything.
So, Nancy, I thank you for your concideration but will have to
ask you to think harder and try again to help me out.
And Carol, super idea with the mini pumpkins. (Does having mice
do the work for you make you Cinderella?) I think I will plant
some in my neighbors yard and then let my grandchildren harvest
them in the fall. Maybe the mini pumpkins will escape the deer if
I aim them into my neighbor's bushes.
Stan the cheap and lazy gardener
P.S. Pumpkin: The other orange flower.
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