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4 Entries.
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Saturday, May 18
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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.
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Sunday, May 26
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All four germinated.
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Tuesday, May 28
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Two planted today with the remaining two as backups.
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Tuesday, May 28
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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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