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----- Original Message -----
From: <pattie@juno.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Pumpkin strip.
>
>
> 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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