Vegie gardening question

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Ben
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Vegie gardening question

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Greetings all,

A quick question: When does one know when a pumpkin is ripe and ready for picking?
I have a large number on vines which have taken over my vegie garden.
Thanks

Ben
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Re: Vegie gardening question

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Hi Ben,

Here is a good guide that also seems to have some good harvesting tips:

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/vegetab ... e-ripe.htm

Kevin
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Thank you, Kevin!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Ben wrote:Thank you, Kevin!
No prob Ben.

Kevin
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