Jim wrote:

>Alaska is a big state- * Pumpkins do ok
> in Anchorage and Nikiski,
>apparently-<g>

Yes, indeed is certainly IS a big state! I didn't know they could grow
pumpkins up north, but have heard of HUGE veggies grown in the Matanuska
Valley, and it must be the soil up that way, but up north they have
warmer temperatures in the summer than we do down here on the panhandle
of the state. We get a lot of rain and have a shorter growing season.
Some things do well in a greenhouse, such as tomatoes, which need one in
order to do well here.

>http://www.adn.com/2011/08/31/2042397
>/1723-pound-pumpkin-disqualified.html

Judy