Top 10 list for growing a pumpkin - and maybe a big one too

1. Plant your seeds in a sunny location
2. Don't eat your seeds, plant them
3. Water your plants daily
4. Fertilize regularly
5. Don't trim your vines, you need long vines to get flowers
   
6. Deport your squirrels
7. Don't go on vacation
8. Don't plant your pumpkin seeds with other squashes (they cross pollinate)
   
9. Be patient, and have fun
   
10. and most of all..........Try again in 2006