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.