Thanks, Farkee! I was pretty proud of it myself since it was my first attempt. I used a Gardener Supply SWC, the one they package as their Tomato Success kit. I chose that over an EB because it has a 1 gallon larger water reservoir. The season I grew that one I started off using Neptune Harvest Fish Hydrolysate and wasn't seeing good growth so I continued using it, but added Miracle Grow at the same time. That seemed to do the trick. I was using both products at full strength every week or two (wasn't disciplined about it). The year that one grew the vine was killed by frost a month earlier than normal so I was quite eager to try again the following year. Unfortunately I haven't had good luck. I have had problems with wind storms breaking the vines before they are large enough to reach and anchor to the ground and last year my dogs chewed a large vine that had set a fruit in half :( I have decided to give it a rest this year and try again in 2010 as the dogs just aren't mature enough yet for me to trust them to leave it alone. They get wild running around the yard chasing each other and become oblivious to what they are running into and over. I am going to try a few at a friends house along his wood line. These will be ground grown though as I won't be able to attend to them often. If I was doing it again I would do everything the same, but I would use Foliage Pro and Protekt in the reservoir at full strength every week, possibly more often. MG would be fine too, but I would want the calcium in the FP and the silicon in the PT. My opinion based on what I have seen with these pumpkins is that it's actually difficult to over fertilize them. I would encourage anyone to give them a try, they are a lot of fun and make impressive Halloween displays. The seeds are not much for roasting though, very tough and fibrous.

Oh Cait: T H A N K Y O U !!!! Thank You ! ! ! * * * T * H * A * N * K ~ ~ ~ Y * O * U ! ! ! I listened to the link........... Mt St Leonards Look out Tower walk ! ! ! ! The pics were awesome... and the MUSIC >>>>>>>>>>> Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll what can I say.... I just sat here and cryed my Big Brown Eyes out.................. It made me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HAPPY !!!! It brought back SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many memories to me.......... When I was born in Odessa Texas... My Dad started singing ..... the YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS... to me.... and sang it to me everytime he saw me... till he died when I was 8 years old.... THANK YOU CAIT !!!!!!!!!!!! I really needed that today... I am sooooooooooooooooooo DANG Homesick I can barely stand it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & watching the St Leonard Look out towerwalk with the Beautiful Green trails and Mts.... W O N D E R F UL !!!!!!!!!!! cause ALL I have Seen since DECEMBER 1st 2008 is W H I T E SNOW !!!!!!!! Tons of it... Feet of it... and that's all I will see for several more months... so I BOOKMARKED the Tower Walk... and I hope to watch it quite often !!!! It was EXTREMELY Kind of you to think of me... I think of you often & I REMEMBER YOU OFTEN IN MY PRAYERS !!!! GOD BLESS !!! Your Garden Junk Buddy SusieSunshine *** HURRY Back so we can both move to TEXAS !!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, we went, my husband and i, and were sorely disappointed. it was more like a home show with a bit of landscaping, no real flower/garden displays as in former years. we both loathed this new format and hope it won't be continued. didn't stay long. and the paucity of vendors was a bummer as well. we so wished we hadn't missed the previous week's Rhode Island flower show in Providence, which we usually go to as well. that's a very nice show... did manage to buy a couple of nice garden ornaments, and checked out the pergola shade canopies, so perhaps not a total loss, but if this is how it will be in future, they can count us out from attending!! wish i knew where to send a pleasantly-worded complaint.

Two years I was at least 30+ lbs overweight. I just got sick and tired of not being able to breath when I would go out and do some gardening. Plus my back use to ache. I remember watching a program on tv about reversing your diet. Well, that is exactly what I started to do. I started to eat half my dinner and save the rest for breakfast. and I also started to walk. I use to walk around our firehall parking lot to start because that was flat and easy for me. I drove my car around first and seen that the circle was 0.1 mile. Well, I would walk around 10 times to equal 1 mile. Not fast, but a little more than a slow walk. Within 3 weeks I lost 5 lbs. I was absolutely thrilled. I found out that by eating a bigger breakfast you weren't hungry for snacks by mid morning. For lunch I would eat a can of soup and dinner I really wasn't hungry for a large meal. It's been over 2 years now and I lost 31 lbs and have kept it off. I didn't go out and buy any special foods. I just ate what I normally would eat but I just ate more of it in the morning. I do snack on peanuts and I have yogurt as my 3:00 snack. I did give up my doritos, fritos and cupcakes because I wasn't hungry for them anymore. I found out this is my lifestyle change because I can live like this the rest of my life. What I like about this is when we do go to parties or weddings, I eat whatever I want because I know I'm not going to gain 30 lbs in one night. On Monday, I'm back on schedule. My great husband did buy me a threadmill for rainy and cold days, but if you don't have one buy a walking DVD. They're just as good as walking outdoors. I use mine when it's raining. I hope this helps you. Linda from PA