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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
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Carolyn Phillips
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Nauvoo, Alabama
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I'm trying again. It's been two years since I tried growing a large pumpkin. I miss it. I really have a lot of fun just growing the plant itself. I am attracted to the large leaves and the young culled pumpkins taste good too. (sliced, battered and fried like squash)
This seedling is just a mutt from hollands giants. The seed came from an unimportant pumpkin. I don't know who it's mama and daddy is but I have adopted it anyway. I really chose a mutt seed cause my plot is new and I didn't want to waste good breeding on a small poor patch. But I am working on amending another patch for a June planting. I need to get my hands on a good seed.
Meanwhile. I have a few extra pumpkin mutt seedlings that germinated and I don't have the heart to throw them out the door but I have no place to grow them. I decided to grow them in 32 gallon and 50 gallon barrels. I might get some male blooms to cross pollinate and a few young pumpkins for frying and a few for ---just because. Like I told someone else. I can kill the seedlings now or I can grow them in 50 gallon drums and give them a slow and more fun death. I realize that buy growing them in this manner that they will be smaller plants and they will be more open to squash vine borers. We shall see what happens.
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