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Thursday, September 07, 2006 Tony Pumpkin Abbotsford BC

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Busy today helping my parents can 700+lbs of tomatoes--yes you guessed it, we eat a lot of pasta sauce.

Well, day 76 and I finally inched past the 700lb estimate with an OTT of 328.5 (135, 101.5, 92). Only 3 lbs in 2 days--by the tape at least. Looks like this fruit is not destined for greater things--too bad, but I am still pleased with it. I will meaure it very carefully and in the same spot for the next few days and see what happens. I will have to make arrangements to weigh it un oficially soon--probably this weekend. For this I will use 4 bathroom digital scales that I will attempt to calibrate before hand. I will place the scales on top of a piece of plywood and place another piece of plywood on top of the scales--propping it for support. I will then roll the pumpkin onto this set up and remove the props with a jack. The total of the 4 scales minus the plywood should give me a pretty accurate measure of the pumpkins weight.

Just a note to self--I dead-headed most of the tertiaries at about 8-10 feet today =, and pulled off several more females--plenty of leaves for the season--a good portion of which have gone the entire distance.
 



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