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  • From: "Hook Family" <ghf AT townisp.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 39, Issue 8
  • Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:55:25 -0400

We plant ours flat, once they've been weeded a couple times they grow in and are very easy care. How's your rain fall? I am in New England we have drip lines but only use them as a last resort, dh doesn't like weeding around them. We had pumkins at the far corner of our fields one year no where near a water source. Things got dry, we carried water on our truck (I forget what container we used, either trash cans or our sap pick up tank) then hand watered the plants with watering cans. We got a good crop and they did look pretty off in the distance. Dh has hand watered quite a few things to avoid the drip lines :), but sometimes a one shot watering gets you to the next rain. Beth

I have a new area that'll be planted in pumpkins, about a quarter acre. The
land has been tilled and disked to make it level. What do you think about
planting as it is now, without listing? In other words, no beds. This,
like everything else around here, will be a dry land crop, no irrigation.






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