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Friday, August 06, 2010
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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Well we lost our big one today. It was on my son's 1239 Marsh '08 plant. We had noticed a bunch of mouse holes around the pumpkin,so we decided to lift the pumpkin and let it finish growing on a pallet. We planned on bringing it to the Marshfield Fair in two weeks. When it was in the air we checked the underside and found a split about 3/4" long by 1/4" wide.
The pumpkin had a concave bottom, and I think that this may have predisposed the pumpkin to split. I grow mine on sand, I wonder if I would have had better luck using mill fabric? I really like to see a flat bottomed pumpkin when lifting the pumpkin. I want it to look like a table top. I would love to hear any advice from other growers on how to do this.
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