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Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Hey guys, I had this great idea for Myth Busters onDscovery channel. The old wise tale about Milk adding pounds to the pumpkin, I figure a club could send this to them. What do you all think?

1/6/2007 9:44:53 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

I like it!

1/6/2007 11:06:09 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

Imagine if they grew a 1600 pounder using milk. Would milk be in short supply come growing season?

1/6/2007 11:26:46 PM

Roanoke Il

Captain I don't think this was a myth, I think there was some actual theory behind the old myth. Google milk as a fungicide, milk also contain's calcium, which many growers use. I think that the old times use to pour milk on there pumpkin plants keeping them healther thus produceing better and bigger crop. I've used dyhdrated milk for two years in my hose end sprayer for the past two years A have had no signs of powdery mildew. So I think there is some fact behind the myth.. I love the show.....mark

1/7/2007 9:07:57 AM

Montoursville, PA

No myth and no short supply of milk expected. If you could get your fingers on raw milk the total package of biological support might be even greater.

On the farm my uncle had a springhouse where the milk was cooled and where the cans were washed or swished out with the pure clean water. Now don't jump on that. :) He told me this so it is gospel. The watercress in the first fifty yards south of the can washing grew first, faster, and appeared more healthy. I might add that the water came up through or over clay and limestone as a gift from the sea.

1/7/2007 10:17:03 AM

Kingston, NH

I read an old book about that once and the guy supposedly used farm milk put right into the vine.

1/7/2007 11:48:24 AM

White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Maybe give them Whey. Could make them whey heavier. LOL

1/7/2007 12:26:58 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

It stead of milk, how about lead shot lol That way when i show up to the weighoffs at cooperstown, my pumpkin will be 10 percent heavy lol. Think I'd get the lifetime ban. (just in case i do show up with a big pumpkin, I won't add lead.)

1/7/2007 12:39:46 PM

Montoursville, PA

Gramps gets my nomination, for the one liner, of the year.

1/7/2007 7:23:44 PM

Montoursville, PA

If you really want to work with this milk thing you could get off code milk with a little creative potty arming in the big box store's dumpster. I'm sticking with kelp meal as a reasonable easy to use soil builder right behind the free manures.

1/7/2007 7:29:20 PM

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

How could they test the "myth"? They'd have to fit an awfully long growing season into their production schedule.

The only other one that I've seen them do that took so much time was the dead pig in the car, or dead pig in concrete. But, with that, they just had to set it and forget it. They didn't have to tend to it like they would a pumpkin.

1/8/2007 3:16:17 AM

Oz

When I was in elem. school, I found a book om pumkin growing and they showed a drawing of a vine slit longways with a cotton wick coming out oof the slit and going into a saucer of
milk.
Good way to attract cats/etc!

1/8/2007 10:06:57 AM

[email protected]

My son has a similar book but the lamp wicking is set into a jar of sugar water.

1/8/2007 10:16:46 AM

Wilmington.Ma.

I can just see the wheels turning in a newbe head now!!

1/8/2007 3:26:06 PM