Fwd: Re: [CH] Re: Open fields
danceswithcarp (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:05:39 -0500
>At 05:35 AM 7/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> > > mean the Great Pumpkin is going to appear this year? Allright!
>
>
>maybe. As a lark I planted a few heirloom seeds from someone who got them
>from someone who got them from someone who said they'd grow 450 pound
>pumpkins. I put in 5 hills in soil that was overgrown lawn last year
>that I had plowed this year to expand the garden. I always heard that
>first-year sod-soil was the berries but this is ridiculous; One plant is
>over twenty feet long right now and at the edge of the Red Savina patch,
>and it only has two flowers on it so far. The others are bigger than any
>squash plant I've ever had. I told Pat I was going to cut the big one
>back this AM in order to save the habs but it's raining so I'll have to
>postpone. I'm telling you the leaves on this thing are bigger than my
>beer-gut and I am starting to be afeared.
>
>How do you get a multiple hundred pound pumpkin over a fence,
>anyways? If I can figure it out and the rabbits, squirrels and
>groundhawgs don't wipe me out and the squash-borers pass us by, maybe
>there will be a Great Pumpkin there.
>
>
>carp
ps: does anyone know how to get these lines out of a response through
Eudora Pro mail program? I want carats instead and can't find a
switch? Off list, of course.