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Freeville, New York

This may be good starter equipment for beginners or help fill out the seasoned grower's needs.

Here is a list of what I have. I want to sell these as one unit. If some growers want to get together and split it up afterwards, that's an option.

1) 2 - 600 gallon galvanized steel water vats (12 feet long and oval shaped) will need swimming pool covers
2) 3 - 1/2 horse sump pumps
3) 1 - high pressure water pump (I think it will do up to 200 psi)
4) 1 - propane instant hot water heater
5) 1300 ft of sump pump flexible hose with punched holes every foot for irrigation (some of this has been badly damaged by the squirrels.)
6) 90 - 120 feet of 1/2 inch black plastic pipe with spaced misting sprayers
7) bucket of vine staples (for training vines)
8) 3000 square feet of row covering (originally was in 3 sheets, one to cover each plant. Some of this is badly damaged too)
9) Stakes and framework for row covering. (enough to cover about 3000 sq. ft.)
10) "A" frames for spring frost protection
11) Starter buckets (gallon size) for starting seeds
12) Heating pads for bottom heat for starting seeds
13) "Extra" Glass window frames
14) Leftover fertilizer (various formulas and additives)
15) numerous metal and wood stakes from 3 ft to 5 ft tall
16) Pumpkin shade frames to keep the pumpkins from splitting
17) 3 canvas pumpkin tarps to carry the pumpkins
18) Whatever I missed! :-)

My asking price for all of this is $1061.00, after our last pumpkin which is pretty small by today's standards already!
The original investment for this equipment alone was $5000.

Selling these items is a little hard to do with the memories attached. :-)

Please reply to me and i will forward to Nathan Zehr.

6/7/2011 9:37:49 PM

Muddy Waters

you should list this under equipment for sale.

6/7/2011 9:59:36 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

In a perfect world I would jump at the chance to accumulate some of these items. In 1996 Bill Greer was the first person to grow a pumpkin over 1000 lbs, only to be surpassed later that day by Nathan and Paula Zehr.

6/7/2011 10:09:27 PM