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463	At last I have found a pumpkin the size of a soccer ball, really soft with bright yellow skin. I think it is on one of your plants Barb K. I am not sure who is...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 1, 2000 9:20 pm
464	We are having a heat wave here in Adelaide and I'm afraid I will have another pumpkinless season again. Anyone have a good method to cool the flowers ? It is...	Hickman, Tony (RGH) Tony.Hickman@...	Feb 2, 2000 12:10 am
465	Tony - sounds like we could take an average and would be all right. Cool and overcast here with rain every day for the last week or so. Temp barely making...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 2, 2000 12:23 am
466	Good luck Tony - I have no idea what the weather and mother nature are trying to do to us this summer - it's gone all crazy. John -- John McKinney Giant...	John McKinney oliverm@...	Feb 2, 2000 3:27 am
467	Thanks John S and John Mac for the support. I put the ice plan into action this morning. The photos will be in my next pumpkin page update. I dug the hole and...	Hickman, Tony (RGH) Tony.Hickman@...	Feb 2, 2000 10:36 pm
468	COOL :-) Not all of us can say that we have a pumpkin growing in our ice holes!!!!!! (Tch - Tch) Have a 'Parky' day John S...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 2, 2000 10:59 pm
469	Tony In one of the pumpkin videos I saw, someone in the States, put a bedspread over the pumpkin vine making a tent, and filled it with ice, a few times a day,...	Pumpkin Lady atlantic@...	Feb 3, 2000 12:23 am
470	John, Let us know how to get a copy of the magazine story when it comes out, I would like to add it to my ever increasing pumpkin collection. Wendy...	Pumpkin Lady atlantic@...	Feb 3, 2000 12:24 am
471	Hi Wendy As soon as it gets out, I will let you know and send you a copy. How is your patch coming on? Have a 'Parky' day John S ... From: Pumpkin Lady ...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 3, 2000 12:41 am
472	I got this email the other day - anyone out there that has some good advice. Cheers John -- John McKinney Giant Pumpkins - http://www.iinet.net.au/~oliverm/ ...	John McKinney oliverm@...	Feb 3, 2000 2:40 am
473	I am in NZ. Have 2 months till competition date. My pumpkin is about the size of 4 soccer balls. It has turned orange. It is shaded. What else should I be...	backhouse@...	Feb 3, 2000 4:49 am
474	Turning orange would be a sign that the pumpkin is maturing and may not get any bigger. But ......if the skin is still shiny it should still be growing. ...	Hickman, Tony (RGH) Tony.Hickman@...	Feb 3, 2000 5:38 am
475	... Now that is professional help at it's best....Thank you very much for that tip Tony.... I will be putting that tip to practice in my patch this summer! ;-)...	Rock Rivard jenaipas@...	Feb 3, 2000 5:49 am
476	Put that knife away until you know you have a pumpkin over basketball size. When you have a big pumpkin you can then cut off the small ones, but wait until you...	Hickman, Tony (RGH) Tony.Hickman@...	Feb 3, 2000 5:48 am
477	Hello fellow Kiwi I suspect that if the pumpkin has turned orange then it has stopped growing. You may need to get a measuring tape and check the measurement...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 3, 2000 7:09 pm
478	Rock The Aussies have XXXX on their beer cans because they cannot spell B E E R Have a 'Parky' day John S ... From: Rock Rivard [SMTP:jenaipas@...] ...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 3, 2000 7:18 pm
479	I am in Kaitaia. Thanks....	backhouse backhouse@...	Feb 3, 2000 7:46 pm
480	Sounds like you got your seeds from Jacqui. Had a great holiday up you way last month. Do you have any pumpkins coming on? Have a 'Parky' day John S ... From:...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 3, 2000 7:48 pm
481	OH too funny!!!! Rock (waiting anxiously for Tony's reply) e-mail : jenaipas@... home : http://www.pumpkinsontheweb.freeservers.com AGGC :...	Rock Rivard jenaipas@...	Feb 3, 2000 8:25 pm
482	Thanks John, we're melting over here. Another day over 40 for Tony as well, and now they're giving our two States, power cuts on top, so much for the fan ...	Pumpkin Lady atlantic@...	Feb 3, 2000 8:40 pm
483	Hi Wendy Wouldn't half mind some of your degrees. Still barely scratching twenty and plenty of showers. Not too bad for pumpkins but I have my major events...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 3, 2000 8:58 pm
484	so long as your pumpkin has not hardened completely and is still shiny it should be growing. If they do not grow past size of a basketball, usually means they...	Pumpkin Lady atlantic@...	Feb 3, 2000 8:54 pm
485	Hi John Gladly send over some of the heat. Our pumpkins are not doing much at all, and still waiting for my giant gourds to start growing, lots of fruit, but...	Pumpkin Lady atlantic@...	Feb 3, 2000 8:56 pm
486	Rock The Aussies have XXXX on their beer cans because they cannot spell B E E R Have a 'Parky' day John S ... Well....well......well.......aren't we funny...	Hickman, Tony (RGH) Tony.Hickman@...	Feb 4, 2000 2:14 am
487	Yup - you beat me to it. I am off to see Dusty for the weekend. Have a cold one Tony (He - He) Have a 'Parky' day John S ... From: Hickman, Tony (RGH) ...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 4, 2000 2:20 am
488	Tony, The fan will only make things worse get rid of it. I got a styro box with a tight fitting lid and broke out a hold sufficient to allow the flower stem...	Stewart Deans sdeans@...	Feb 4, 2000 10:28 am
489	After spending a few hours weeding the patch and pushing vines into place I found a very handsome, spherical, basketball sized pumpkin that is shiny...	John.sargeant@...	Feb 7, 2000 9:28 pm
490	Greetings pumpkineers, So far the season up here in the hills has been strange to say the least.Hot,wet,hot,more wet,really hot. But alas, in the beds I have...	David Collyer kadarina.berries@...	Feb 21, 2000 10:43 am
491	Hi Team I put the measuring tape around Dusty last night and it came out at 54 inches. She feels really weighty and so I was fair pleased. Cilla and LuLu are...	john.sargeant@...	Feb 21, 2000 7:25 pm
492	Can i get a rough idea of how things are going/growing in the pumpkin stakes this year - it all seems pretty quiet at the moment.Has anyone heard of any...	John McKinney oliverm@...	Feb 23, 2000 1:41 am

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