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Monday, May 04, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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We started long gourd and watermelon seeds over the weekend. This evening, Jacob and i set out 7 pumpkin plants. 4 for Jacob, 3 for me. The green squash and my 841 have not sprouted yet. I started several more 841's but I am afraid they may not be too good. I am debating what else to start and may go with another of Jacob's 547's. That one was the first to sprout and fastest growing of all our plants so far, and has great genetics.
We put clear plastic wind screens around our pumpkins and sprinkled garlic powder on them for the beetles. We used the Biotone starter with micorhizae and beneficial bacteria in the planting holes. We will use a little of this at leaf/root nodes and the plants grow. We also got the electric fence fired up. We still need to do a lot of Roundup spraying and tillage, as well as spreading a little more manure. We will be going very light on the chemical fertilizers this year, but will be using compost tea.
Jacob and I also re-worked one of our long gourd trellises and tilled up the raised gourd bed. We still have a lot of work to do on our other gourd bed and trellis. We are way behind on our spring work. We still haven't cut any firewood for next winter and have only gotten a start on mowing. The tiller needs servicing before we use it. A late spring and being laid up 6 weeks with kidney stone trouble are the causes. But I am feeling better and getting back into shape. Hopefully this will be the year we reach our goal of 1000# pumpkin, 100# watermelon and 100" gourd.
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