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Little-TON - Colorado

What did you do in your patch you dont want to do again.....?

2/26/2008 9:10:47 AM

[email protected]

That's easy, where do I start, lol! First and foremost, the day of a huge concert I was going to go to, I used chlorox and water on my plants to kill powdery mildew. I did more than kill the mildew, I killed most of the plant that way. Please don't kill your plants, they didn't do anything to you. Lessons learned! Never again!

2/26/2008 9:37:06 AM

Dummer Twp - Ontario

LIsten to people when they tell me not to grow 3 plants when theres only room for 2. Don't move the vine in the morning or you will snap it. Don't overspray your leaves with sulphur or they will burn. try to leave some time for your wife also! Or pumpkin growing does not seem that fun when your sleeping in the patch.

Kirk

2/26/2008 10:43:06 AM

ordinary,VA

lol @ Kirk
the patch gets cozy after a few seasons growing!

like i tell my wife you said "for better or worse also"


sleep tight dont let the squash bugs bite

2/26/2008 11:03:08 AM

Ft. Branch, IN ([email protected])

won't be burying the main vines this year....just secondaries....learned that main vines can't handle it in the heat down here.

2/26/2008 11:43:09 AM

Alex, IN

24-d is not good for pumpkins!

2/26/2008 12:32:38 PM

Pinedale, WY

I tried a couple hail storms and 1 tornado last year. It wasn't good on the plants, so I am going to pass on that this year.

2/26/2008 1:01:42 PM

Crossett Arkansas

Wind protection on young plants!!! they WILL be protected this year!!!

2/26/2008 1:26:32 PM

southwest MO

Wont butt the stumps up against anything whwere I cant get to it as the plant gets large.

2/26/2008 1:29:30 PM

[email protected]

"Listen to people when they tell me not to grow 3 plants when theres only room for 2."

I've heard this one already. I don't like the sounds of that.

2/26/2008 1:29:30 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

try 3 plants in 400 sq ft.yep u heard that one already.

plastic weed barrier down keeps weeds from growing. but pumpkin side roots don't grow.

Telling someone that they can have a pumpkin then they help themselves(while i was at work) to several while i wasnt there.

growing more than 2 pumpkins on a plant

2/26/2008 1:56:53 PM

milford, CT,

DON"T....bring in manure from a questionable source. Last year I had corn maggots eat my first 4 plants ....I got lucky to break 700 lbs. Don't be cheap...once you find a reliable source stick with them and periodically test the manure. ($13 at UMASS). I saw the maggots but thought they were nothing...think again! Mark

2/26/2008 3:39:50 PM

Salem, OR

1. Preventative insecticide and mildew protection
2. Set up automated watering system
3. Fewer leaves next year
4. More sand or increased drainage one way or another
5. I'm considering tilling in the fall and not tilling in the spring since my soil takes so long to dry out

2/26/2008 4:21:15 PM

Minnesota

I'm not going to let a snapping turtle lay eggs in my mulch pile..
I'm not going to set a fruit at 7 feet
I'm not going to spray a young plant without rinsing
I'm not going to grow 6 plants where there is only room for 4 (Geometry 101...)
I'm not going to go after the neighbor kids with my mist blower.
I'm not going to use quite so many moth balls (Finally figured out how to get their legs apart!!)
I'm not taking Dean quite as seriously this year.
I'm also not going to plant 32 tomato plants

My goodness, I have more but must stop now....

2/26/2008 5:23:17 PM

Windham Maine

Don't try this at home!! When using soaker hose's make sure to place them properly! My first attempt had me wondering why the 2 plant's I used them on stopped growing and slowly died.Well after pulling the plants I found that the hose's were placed in a coil at the root base which I buried like a spring, small at top large at the outter base, and I thought this would work GREAT.Not so! The roots wrappped themselves around the hose's and never penetrated the wonderfull pit underneath, they went out straight sideways and even up! so you see I will never do this again!!!

2/26/2008 5:25:26 PM

Minnesota

Couldn't help it......
I'm not going "Cowboy" this spring
I'm not going to let the frost "Harden" off my plants in Sept.
I'm not going to name my pumpkins after Star Wars Characters
I'm not going to load my pumpkins with an engine hoist

2/26/2008 5:36:35 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

It's a really really good idea to get the plastic for your greenhouses wider than the pvc length. . .

2/26/2008 7:24:51 PM

Littleton, Colo

Not going to stand in the middle of the patch spraying AGRO-K in the lightning again.........

2/27/2008 12:29:40 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Yo BiZ, that explains the diary entrees....now I know.....

Im not going have as many aborts due to better cooling during pollination time, and cutting the blossom open 12 hours after pollinating. I saw too many rotting blossom ends.

2/27/2008 8:34:03 AM

ordinary,VA

lol

2/27/2008 10:51:09 AM

Nashville, TN

I'm not going to set my pattern - WITHOUT a 'roadway' for bodcat! It's always the center plants that get the big ones..LOL..

I'm not going to wait until kins are rotting - to slice in half to get seeds ..... STENCH for days!!!

I am going to put mouse bait under all 'kins - after they've passed the 5 day mark..

2/27/2008 10:59:56 AM

In the patch

lol

2/27/2008 3:52:51 PM

New Castle, Pa.

No plant will go in until the ground hog fence goes up.

2/27/2008 10:01:34 PM