Pimpkin Pic's

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The white cotton batting is used as sunscreen just as Nightfighter suggested. I pull it over the strawberries to keep the birds away also. It also is helpful keeping the kids from seeing whats down back in the yard. I bought a roll of it about five years ago and I think I have twenty years worth left.

The only thing I am going to do with the pumpkin is dig out the seeds. Quite a few people want them and I keep some for myself and grow another fruit from the seeds next year. The nice thing about pumpkins is that you name the darn thing after yourself when it comes from a closed pollination.

If anyone gets a chance check out the program "Lord of the Gourds" on PBS channel 44. It shows how some people become fanatics. They turn there whole yards into one big pumpkin patch. The show is pretty GD entertaining. I am kind of hoping after I dig out the seeds it will weigh a manageable amount that I might get it onto the deck so Bev can watch it while I am on the Vineyard. Thanks for all the nice comments.

Jenn you can the fish, thats awesome!