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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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I will start patch preparation tonight if I'm not too tired after work. It is going to be another year of tight budgets for the patch. Instead of buying a lot of the granular micorhizae products and beneficial bacteria sprays, I will be using an Espoma organic fertilizer that has all of those items already in it. Plus I have a lot of composted manure to get on the patch. I did manage to scrounge up some potash and get that applied last fall. We have more drainage ditches to dig to help with the root rot problems. At least we are starting off a lot drier than we did last spring. It is still cold, but the past 2 days have been close to 60 and sunny.
Jacob and I will each have 4 pumpkin plants this year. 3 each will use Don Young's modified Christmas tree vine pattern. The others will use John Barlow's spiral flag pattern. We want to give Barlow's idea a fair test, but will keep most of our plants with a proven pattern.
We will have 2 gourd patches: the new one we started last year plus the old one that got rested last year. We will also have some watermelons. We will get the melons started soon: the pumpkins and gourds should hit the germination chamber in 10 or 12 days.
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