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in article , ROBERT O'REILLY
at wrote on 6/12/03 6:42 AM:

thanks for the replies. guess i'll have to pay attention next yr and
mark the calender to see how accurate they are

I am growing medium sized banana squash from Burpee seeds using a hydroponic
grower. The packet says typical size of 16 pounds, (7 kg?) is achieved in 90
days after sowing. Does anyone really believe that to be possible?

It is about 10 days since starting. The seeds have swollen but not actually
sprouted. That is well within the 14 days suggested by Burpee.

It just seems that there is too little time left even though the squash will
not be deprived of nutrition and sun.

Bill

You have plenty of time; don't get impatient yet. You'll be leaving bushel
baskets
on porches, ringing the doorbell, then running away, before you know it ;-)

(Garrison Keillor says people in MN lock their car doors when they go downtown
in the summertime, so people won't leave bags of zucchini on the back seat.)

Those seed package things are averages/suggestions/best guesses. It all depends
on your conditions if the seed does better or worse than what the seedsman says.

Jan