I grew up on the border of NYC, so a farmer I'm not, I now have a house in the suburbs, and started my Garden, I grew "Tomato's" pretty well, "Dill" grew well, "Basil" did o.k. BUT, My Pumpkins, they took off doing well REALLY well, WOW can those vines grow, I noticed a white film on the plant, it started at the stump, two weeks ago I was watering a forest of pumpkin plants, yesterday I cut out the last of the dead plants...WHAT HAPPENED ? Everyone around here says that this is natural for pumpkins (I'm not buying that), I spoke with an old I-talian man who had a wonderful garden, I noticed that he had no pumpkin plants, I asked "why" ? He said that they tend to get a white worm in them that follows the vine and kill's the plant, is this what happened to me, is there a way to deal with them next year ? I was able to get ONE pumpkin of normal "Halloween" size. My lettuce was well then it all shot up to about 3 feet high ??? is this the plant's end of life cycle ?
2007-09-04
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