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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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689 McWilliams is still slightly ahead of the 1200# benchmark, gaining in the low 20's for the past 9 days and picking up steam. I hope we can keep this up for the rest of August without a blowout, as this is our best start ever.
655 Lovelace and 910 Young are gaining weight almost as fast, but with much better shape and color. The 755 Privitera pumpkin on the main split the stem, so we will go with one on a secondary. 1257.5 Carlson-Petersen main fruit is small and misshappen, going with secondary on that one. 841 McWilliams is definitely not doing well. Jacob and I are continuing with the foliar feedings, adding a little garlic powder to the spray. You sure can smell it and I have only found 1 cucumber beetle all season.
Watermelons are very weedy but getting a few youhg fruits going. Some long gourds have set, but the fungus problem on the leaves is spreading rapidly.
We have a couple more nice days ahead, then we are due for hot weather over the weekend. I started another batch of compost tea last night. The weather is finally dry enough that we can apply tea without drowning the plants.
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