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damaclese · 02-14-2009, 11:15 AM

OK guys and gals iv got the bug for big food this year! So i sowed some Atlantic Pumpkin seeds. Has any one grown this one? If your not familiar this is the pumpkin that reaches up to 1500 or even 2000 lb there big! So how much space is this thing going to take up. becaus its so hot here I'm planting in only 6hr of sun a day. I'm also setting them in a 32" pots that will be put in the ground. I'm doing this for ease of care to help contain the roots so i can deliver water to them in the most economical way. I have read that they take tuns of water when the fruit starts to get big like hundreds of gal. a week is that true? I'v also planted some vary interesting vintage watermelons.
The variety is called moon and stars. I guess this was a seed that was recovered from the wilds of Missouri. Was popular in the late 19cen but fell out of favor then was lost. Some one cam across some growing out in the woods collected the seeds and started growing them again. They are suppose to produce a fruit in the 60 to 70lb rang. So again I'm going big this year. i have a plane for doing this its not just to grow big food. I'm thinking that the massive vines will cover a wide area and there buy cut down on the heat absorption in and around my yard. "I hope so any way" it cant hurt. I grew sweet potato vines last year but they didn't cover enough to help that i could see any way! Any advice would be helpful particularly fert and water requirements. Thanks for suffering threw my triable spelling every one!
PaulO

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