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Saturday, May 18 View Page
I was going to plant a couple of Prizewinners at an area nursery, but a few chipmunks got into their greenhouse and ate a bunch of seeds they had started, including the Prizewinner seeds I sowed. Not having any Prizewinner seeds left I decided to start four of my 147 Morrison's from 2009, which was a Prizewinner fruit pollinated by a 1250 Kline plant I grew that year. Here's a pic of the 147 on the left next to the pumpkin I grew off of the 1250. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=122247 Also, I contributed seeds from the 147 in the 2010 Giant Veggie Exchange, so if you participated in that year's exchange you probably have some of these.
Sunday, May 26 View Page
All four germinated.
Tuesday, May 28 View Page
Two planted today with the remaining two as backups.
Tuesday, May 28 View Page
Here's their growing space. It's not much. Roughly 150 square feet of prepared dirt that had previously never been anything but grass and weeds. You can't tell yet but before planting I bombed the perimeter with glyphosate to beat back some of that grass and weeds, along with some trying to restart in the prepared dirt. I didn't think non-AG's worth getting a soil test for, so here's what I prepared the dirt with: 4 buckets of sand (clay soil) 3 18-gallon totes of compost 1/2 bucket of homemade organic fertilizer: (4 parts cottonseed meal, � part lime, 1 part bone meal) 1-2 quarts of gypsum 1 Ball pint jar of potassium sulfate 0-0-50 If I had to make a guess as to the NPK of the homemade organic fertilizer, I'd say it's something like 6-5-3.

 

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