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They're Not Just
For Halloween...
From home harvest scenes to
commercial advertisements,
pumpkins have become the stan-
dard backdrop from early
October to Thanksgiving.
They're not just for Halloween
anymore.
Georgia's commercial pump-
kin production is relatively small,
but interest in pumpkins extends
to almost everyone.
From the home gardener to
the 4-H Club competition, trying
to grow the biggest pumpkin con-
tinues to fascinate people.
Miniature pumpkins are just as
popular. Pm pumpkins are the
choice for cooking. And about the
last week in October, almost
everyone turns his attention to
the search for the perfect jack-
o'-lantern.
PUMPKINS HAVE become
the centerpiece of the entertain-
ment farming business.
Entertainment farming is a term
used for farms offering tours,
hayrides, carving classes and
field trips as part of their sale
business.
What could be better than a
trip to the country in the fall air,.
taking a hayride through the
the white pumpkin. White on the
outside and orange inside, these
pumpkins have become increas-
ingly popular for painting. The
white exterior makes the perfect
canvas for the skilled artist.
These works of art won't take a
place alongside the Mona Lisa in
100 years, though. They will
decay over time.
While many of our vegetables
come from other continents,
pumpkins originated in the
Americas. Production in south
Georgia is a challenge, but not
impossible. Recent and upcom-
ing advances in pest control and
disease-resistant varieties may
one day make it much more fea-
sible.
Pumpkins are usually plant-
ed in May and June in north
Georgia and June and July in
south Georgia. Depending on the
vine type, they require 15 to 50
square feet of space per plant.
Varieties usually require 75 to 120
days from planting to maturity.
Pumpkins fare well with
organic fertilizer amendments,
since they're not heavy users of
nitrogen. To try your hand at
growing your own crop, consult
your county extension office.
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pumpkin pie IF YOU P to buy your
d'i61ile the perfect
pumpkin?
Georgia grows about 500
acres of pumpkins, not counting
the backyard bounty. Pumpkins
grow quite well in north Georgia.
Just don't expect to grow a world
record pumpkin anywhere in
Georgia.
THE LARGEST pumpkins
recorded for Georgia are in the
350-400-pound range. The world
record stands above 1,000
pounds. The record-setters were
grown in either Europe or
Canada, where the climate is
much milder.
Pumpkins grow on vines that
require a lot of space. That often
limits home gardens. However
many newer varieties have
restricted vines or bush-type
vines and can be grown in small-
er areas. This is particularly true
for the miniatures.
Most miniature pumpkins are
actually gourds. The unique
shapes and colors and diminutive
size make them ideal for decora-
tive displays.
AN INTERESTING oddity is
pumpkins, always look for one
with a good strong handle that
has no damage. Fully mature
pumpkins will most often have a
dull sheen and will be of the color
typical for that variety.
Pumpkins that are damaged
or not fully mature when they're
picked will have a short shelf life.
Even when picked ripe, most
pumpkins will store for only one
to. four months. Southern-grown
pumpkins store less than that
Pumpkins can be a great
source of entertainment, whether
at the entertainment farming
venue or in your own back yard.
Arrange a table display with
miniatures. Carve your own jack-
o'-lantern. Make pumpkin pie
from an old family recipe.
Whether you paint a unique
picture on a white pumpkin can-
vas or just brag about having the
biggest pumpkin at the fair,
pumpkins always bring fun to fall.
(Terry Kelley is an
Extension Service horticultur-
ist with the University of
Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences.) '
His First Golf Course, Near
Recall that on the second sud-
den death playoff hole of the
Masters golf tournament ton
April 12, 1987), Larry Mize
chipped in a birdie from off the
green to win the tournament from
Greg Norman, who is the best
golfer on the planet.
Norman had no recourse but
to move on to the next tourna-
ment, the Heritage Classic at the
Harbour Town Golf Links at
Hilton Head, where something
else happened to him that was
traumatic.
He had to play in the Pro-Am
with me as one of his partners.
Since I have no grandchildren,
let me tell you about my golf
game. I began playing golf when
I was 16 at a lovely course near
my native Moreland, Georgia.
The course had a number of
interesting touches.
You teed off next to a barn,
you often had to shoot over cows
grazing on the course/pasture,
and if your ball landed in a sub-
stance cows are famous for
(besides milk), you got a free drop.
I PLAYED GOLF until I was
22, and then I quit due to a lack
of talent and took up tennis.
I played tennis every day for
the next 16 years.
About a year ago, however, I
awakened one morning and was
no longer able to brush my teeth
with my right hand because my
shoulder was hurting so badly
from playing tennis every day for
16 years.
So, fool that I am, I started
playing golf again.
I presently carry a 14 handi-
cap, hook the ball miserably, and
recently missed a three-inch putt.
Back to Greg Norman. What
a nice man.
He signed about 3,000 auto-
graphs and posed for at least that
many pictures during our round.
As I watched him smile his
way through all that, I thought of
a young sportswriter trying to
interview baseball's Darryl
Strawberry of the Mets during
spring training.
The kids asked Strawberry a
simple question.
"Out of my face," is how
Strawberry answered him.
Norman had a bad round in
the Pro-Am, he shot 5 over pro= I
lost control of my game and
birdied the fifth hole.
On number six, I chipped in
from off the green for another
birdie.
"I've seen that shot before,"•
said Norman, referring to Mize's
winning chip against him in
August.
"And it was going the same
speed," he added, referring to the
fact that both Mize's shot and my
shot would still be rolling had they
"If your ball landed
in a substance cows
are famous for
(besides milk), you got
a free drop."
not gone into the hole.
PLAYING GOLF with Greg
Norman and making back-to-
back birdies is one of the high-
lights of my life.
And who would have thotght
such a thing would happen tole
years ago back home when a cow
once mooed during my backswing
and I hit my shot into the pigpen,
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The Notable Picnics at Dowdell's
President Roosevelt intro-
duced one new dining style to
Georgia. That was the elaborate
picnic
In Georgia before he came, a
picnic was always the simplest sort
of endeavor. Ham sandwiches,
beer or soft drinks or a pitcher of
tea, or lemonade, maybe cold fried
d'dgken, ic-
hie blankeadfVde--hnd
chairs. ................
Roosevelt preferred regular
dinner dishes, tables with linen,
chairs or, as often as not, the back
seats of his cars removed and
placed on the ground.
He thought picnics should be
catered, that there should be ser-
vants.
In addition to beer or Coke
from a bottle, he had glasses and
the ingredients for cocktails and
a cocktail shaker along.
THERE WERE several spots
in the area that he preferred --
'die wolf's den," a spot by a water-
fall on or near his farm, reached
from the Columbus Highway;
"sunshine shack," a lean-to in an
open field on the road from Warm
Springs to Pine Mountain; the ninth
hole at the golf course offered a
picnic site; and there was
Dowdell's Knob, which got a bona
fide state built spur built to it in
1937 to replace Roosevelt's own
earlier effort. It thus became more
suitable for large groups.
(At Roosevelt's suggestion, the
Georgia Highway Department
built a loop at the end of the road.
The President said he found the
deadend at the point where the
mountain sloped down to the val-
..ley dangerous.)
THE 1943 PICNIC was at the
Knob. It was a typicalRooseveltian
elegance catered by the B&O
Railroad, with one wartime-
inspired difference.
' Soldiers from Fort Benning, in
battle dress, with loaded rifles and
sidearms, stood along the mile-
long spur, prowled the woods along
either side, and guarded the cele-
brants from the perimeter of the
cleared area at the loop.
"Roosevelt pre-
ferred regular dinner
dishes, tables with
linen, chairs or, as often
as not, the back seats
of his cars removed
and placed on the
ground."
The people of Meriwether
County understood the reasoning
behind such precautions.
was a permanent Marine
ment near the Little
but most
them unnecessary.
If there was one
Roosevelt was most safe,
was one plae where
least likely to befall
they were sure,
Springs.
(Next week: The, last
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Finishing Well Is What Counts
The American poet, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, said,
"Great is the art of beginning,
but greater is the art of ending."
Many years before, King
Solomon had something similar
to say.
He said in Ecclesiastes 7:8,
"Better is the end of a thing than
the beginning thereof: and the
patient in spirit is l?etter than the
proud in spirit." When I was play-
ing sports in high school, it was
every player's goal to "start" the
game.
As time went on, I found that
it wasn't necessarily the best who
started, but it was the ones who
finished who counted.
WE FIND that many people
start things, but a large percent-
age never finish.
As we study of Bible, one cer-
tain individual comes to mind
that bears the same characteris-
tics. Most know him as the
strongest man in the Bible,
Samson.
Samson was a young boy that
had all the opportunities and
privileges needed to end up being
used greatly of od.
Samson gives us the story of
one who had all the right begin-
nings, but finished in the wrong
way. Someone once said,
"Privileges are no guarantee of
success and good beginnings do
not guarantee good endings."
How could it be that a young man
with all the right tools to live
right, die in such a wrong way?
In a close examination of
Samson's life, several things
could be named, but allow me to
call your attention to three of
them.
The first things that led to
Samson's downfall was that he
had a desire that was controlled
by the things of this world.
Samson had a wandering eye for
women with whom he should not
have anything to do.
As an Israelite, he was
instructed not to marry outside
the faith of the Jews, but he was
so controlled by his desire for
worldly things, he began his
down fall. We must understand,
the things of this world will not
satisfy the needs of the heart.
Secondly, Samson was cal-
loused by his disrespect for his
parents. In Judges 14, we find
Samson demanding his father to
get the woman from Tinmath for
his wife. Samson had become so
engrossed In this world, it had
now turned his heart from his
very on parents.
IF a young person wants tO
finish in a wrong way, just let
him dishonor and disobey his
parents. As my wife and I spend
time with our oldest son at the
football field, I am appalled at
the way some of the children
treat their parents. It is a shame
the disrespect that some children
show their moms and dads. As
hard as we may be on the chil-
dren for their disrespect and dis-
obedience, they are not all the
blame.
Some parents must bear the
responsibility for the attitudes
of their children.
I feel a lot of the problem
stems from the fact
ents wait too late to
ing their
obey their authority.
not
call of (
problem many a
today.
That is they are
their devotion for
Samson had a special
God, he had made
to the Lord, but he
in keeping them.
Before long, he
every one of his Nazarite
It is great to begin,
even greater to finish.
all be able to say like
fie Paul, "I have
course ..... "
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