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Do you think I could grow pumpkins (not the small ones ) in LARGE containers and let the vines flow onto a large cement area or driveway that is not being used? Would that work? Need some pumpkins for the kids for Halloween and almost forgot about sowing the seeds! YIKES!! |
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It's possible, how large are the containers? You should prob only do one plant per, and only allow one or two pumpkins max to set on each plant. Also if the area is black asphalt, it may cook the vines, so the cement would prob be a better option. They will need regular fertilization and watering. If you are inconsistent with watering while the pumpkins are growing, they are likely to split. I would also place the pumpkin on some straw bedding or something as it grows. |
The containers are very large. The black containers that large trees are sold in. Do you still think only one plant per pot? Actually all I really want is a few pumpkins for the kids. The area the vines would be on would be cement. Thanks for your help. |
Even with containers that large I would still say only one plant per. Their roots are large, and they're heavy feeders. You could experiment, do one in one, and two in the other, that way you will have an idea of how far you can push them for next year. Just don't let too many pumpkins set, or they wont get very big. Also, make sure the containers have good drainage, and set them up on bricks or something so the drainage holes have good clearance and can do there job. You will want to fill them with a light potting mix, not regular soil. Water them when the top one to two inches drys out, and mulch the top as the season gets hotter. You will probably want to fertilize on a weekly basis. When you water, do so that a good percentage of water runs out of the drain holes. There are all types of recommendations on potting mixes and fertilizers in the container gardening forum. |
I believe it can be done. But, in zone 5 you need to look for a variety that is labelled as taking 100 days or less to maturity. Pumpkins need lots of sun, warmth, fertilizer and even moisture. I'm growing three in a 27 gallon half whiskey barrel. I intend to remove the smallest when the larger ones start flowering and only letting one or two per vine to develop. |
I'm trying this myself. I've got seven going, each in a black plastic nursery pot (#7 tall = 8 gallons). Started from seed, two weeks ago which is possibly too late but wanted to give it a shot. Hoping for a good Summer! Variety is "Amish Pie", which can get very big as far as pie pumpkins go (reputedly up to 60lbs!) Since the fruit is so heavy I am planning to let the vines trail on top of a pretty big area, maybe 6 feet wide by forty feet long, of low mounds of some type of grass, which should hopefully keep the leaves up in the sun but the fruit will be able to squash the grass and thus sit on dirt, pretty much. Either that or I could let the vines run around a concrete area and get more warmth that way, but then would definitely need to do something to lift the fruit up off the hot concrete. Anyone got experience with this and think one of those options has a better shot of working out? Since they are not in the ground I am planning to feed pretty heavily with water soluble fertilizer, maybe fish emulsion? Also, I am debating whether I should cut back to just one, or try two fruits per vine? |
Trying this for the first time. Zone 9. Container planting due to rabbit infestation. What do I need to know??? Specifically what type of fertilizer is needed and how often?? I understand about turning the pumpkins and when to harvest. Let me know the critical points!!!! |
I would put one in a 36" diameter pot. Maybe as low as 24", if it's the very tall kind of pot (30" tall, I think). I laughed when I read the title of this thread, because I thought, 'Sure, if your container is the size of a Volkwagen bug!' |
Lynda: the critical points probably are that you need a container that is at least 20-25 gallons; full sun; fast draining potting mix (not soil); at least a 120-day growing season; and regular fertilizing with a balanced fertilizer containing all the trace minerals. Pumpkins need a lot of moisture and food. I suggest you read the most popular thread in the Container Forum. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Container Soils
For fertilizer, its important not to give them too much nitrogen. Too much N and you'll get tons of vines, and no pumpkins at all (female flowers don't set if there's too much N). Also, pumpkin vines will want to root along the vine, and that will greatly help pumpkin development. Don't just give it one pot at the base, have a couple of extra smaller pots that you can put the vines in for secondary rooting. |
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So, we need to make whole-body computers that get the heart pumping, through which we can dance out text and pictures and messages? Why haven't we done that yet?
History is changed by people who get pissed off. Only neo-vegetables enjoy using computers the way they are at the moment. If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives and give them carte blanche. Do not under any circumstances consult anyone who (a) is fascinated by computer games (b) tends to describe silly things as "totally cool" (c) has nothing better to do except fiddle with these damn things night after night.
What? And give up all those totally cool buttons?!
I've been telling synthesizer manufacturers for years that the issue is not increasing the number of internal options. The issue is increasing rapport, making a thing that relates to you physically in a better way. Of course the easy course is to add options, since absolutely no conceptual rethink is required. But the relationship between user and machine might be better achieved by reducing options.
If I could give you a black box that could do anything, what would you have it do?
I would love to have a box onto which I could offload choice making. A thing that makes choices about its outputs, and says to itself, This is a good output, reinforce that, or replay it, or feed it back in. I would love to have this machine stand for me. I could program this box to be my particular taste and interest in things.
Why do you want to do that? You have you.
Yes, I have me. But I want to be able to sell systems for making my music as well as selling pieces of music. In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of "their" works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box. Or you could buy a Brian Eno box. So then I would need to put in this box a device that represents my taste for choosing pieces.
I guess the only thing weirder than hearing your own music being broadcast on the radios of strangers is hearing music that you might have written being broadcast!
Yes, music that I might have written but didn't!
Will you still like the idea of these surrogate Brian Enos when they start generating your best work?
Sure! Naturally, it's a modifiable box, you know. Say you like Brahms and Brian Eno. You could get the two of them to collaborate on something, see what happens if you allow them to hybridize. The possibilities for this are fabulous.
What's left for us to do then?
Cheat. And lie.
Some people listening to your music might think that it is already being written by one of your black boxes.
For years, I have been using rules to write music, but without computers. For instance, I've used systems of multiple tape loops that are allowed to reconfigure in various ways, while all I do is supply the original musical sounds or elements and then the system keeps throwing out new patterns of them. It is a kaleidoscopic music machine that keeps making new variations and new clumps.
My rules were designed to try to make a kind of music I couldn't predict. That's to say, I wanted to construct "machines" (in a purely conceptual sense - not physical things) that would make music for me. The whole idea was summarized in the famous saying (which I must have shouted from the ramparts a thousand times): "Process not product!" The task of artists was to "imitate nature in its manner of operation" as John Cage put it - to think of ways of dealing with sound that were guided by an instinct for beautiful "processes" rather than by a taste for nice music.
By the early '70s, I had made and experienced a great deal of systems music,
as all this had come to be known. I wanted to make music that was not only systemically interesting, but also that I felt like hearing again. So, increasingly, my attention went into the sonic material that I was feeding into my "repatterning machines." This became my area: I extended the composing act into the act of constructing sound itself.
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Along with wild salmon and steelhead trout, the Pacific Northwest soon may have another endangered species: the driveway carwash.
Washing your car or boat in the driveway or street is a residential ritual as American as backyard barbecues. But the state of Washington is telling its local governments they must prohibit home car washing unless residents divert the wash water away from storm drains, where they say it causes water pollution.
"I understand this is something people have done for a long time," says Bill Moore, water quality specialist with the state Department of Ecology, which is requiring the ban. "It's not something we should be doing any longer."
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The soapy runoff is toxic to salmon and other fish, and the small metal particles that wash off cars, such as brake dust, is harmful, too, he says.
Unlike public sanitary sewer systems that clean wastes from water, storm drain systems in most communities empty straight into streams and eventually rivers and oceans.
"Clearly, you cannot dump your bucket of wash water, or as you are hosing down your car, you're not supposed to allow that into a storm drain," says Kim Schmanke, spokeswoman for the department.
Mark Muhlhauser, 41, who washes his Toyota Highlander nearly every weekend outside his Vancouver, Wash., home, has a simple message for regulators: Come get him.
"I will wash it this weekend," he says defiantly. "It's just totally crazy. I don't think anybody's going to follow it. Everybody I've talked to, they're still planning on washing their cars."
He gets sympathy from Brian Carlson, public works director for Vancouver, a city of 160,000 people just across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore. He says that the city is being ordered by state Ecology Department officials to pass an ordinance banning carwash runoff by next year, but that neither he nor other city officials intend to do so.
"We don't think it's realistic," Carlson says.
City ordinances specifically allow home car washing and its runoff into storm drains, he says. City officials support an education campaign that urges people to "be sensitive and be careful" when washing a vehicle.
"But an outright ban that puts something on the books that's unrealistic to enforce just doesn't make any sense," Carlson says.
"And we would not enforce it," he says. "We're not going to go around ticketing people for car washing."
That's not the case in King County, home to the state's biggest city, Seattle.
Curt Crawford, manager of the storm water services section for the county, says the county is writing a proposed ordinance now to ban home car washing if the runoff goes into storm drains. He expects it to pass this fall and says it has local support.
"We just don't want soapy wash water going out into streams (to) kill fish," he says.
Washington state environmental officials insist they aren't banning home car washing — just the runoff into storm drains, Moore and Schmanke say. They say residents will still be able to wash cars on lawns or gravel driveways where water will soak in the ground. Residents can wash on pavement if they install barriers to prevent wash water from going into storm sewers.
Those aren't workable alternatives, some say. Dave Anderson, half of the Mark and Dave radio team on KEX radio in Portland.
"I don't put in an effort to make my driveway nice, and that's where I'm going to wash my car," Anderson says.
Moore and Schmanke say the state's Department of Ecology is requiring the ordinances as a condition for issuing water runoff permits to cities and counties. Moore says it is acting under authority of the federal Clean Water Act and does expect local governments to enforce it.
"If folks fail to comply, the Department of Ecology has a number of tools we can use," he says. "We can issue orders, notice of violations, and, if necessary, penalties to local governments that fail to issue ordinances."
Officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say federal law does not require that Washington or any other state take such a step.
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Misha Vakoc, storm water permit coordinator for the Pacific Northwest region, says residential carwash runoff is allowed in storm drain systems under federal law but that states are permitted to go beyond the standard.
Karina Shagren, spokeswoman for Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, responded to questions about the prohibition by saying the governor has spoken with state Ecology Director Jay Manning, and his department will "fix the problem in a way that will still allow people to wash their cars while still protecting our waters."
A day later, Manning issued a statement saying, "It has recently become apparent that there is significant confusion" about residential car washing. He repeated alternatives: washing over grass or diverting wash water away from drains. "Another option is to use a commercial carwash," the statement says.
Mark Thorsby, executive director of the International Carwash Association, the industry trade group of 25,000 commercial carwashes, says it supports the prohibition. Its members install sometimes-expensive equipment to minimize water use and prevent pollution, he says. Because of that, commercial carwashes wouldn't be affected by the proposal.
"A ban on home carwashing would benefit an industry like mine, but that's not a motivation behind what regulators are doing," he says.
Muhlhauser has a different view.
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