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Saturday, August 22, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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Saturday was the first sunny day in the past 5. The rain just won't quit and the garden soil is soaked. It ended up with my dreaded root rot disease finally showing up. I found one secondary on the 910 Young looking sick, and the roots were all rotted off. So I amputated that vine and gave it a good shot of Aliette. Our other good plants also got a shot of Ailette. It has a great orange pumpkin growing close to 14#a day.
The 689 McWilliams is still gaining around 15# a day. I will soon cut off the shock absorber pumpkin, which is around 100# now so everything can go to the main fruit. The vines are all terminated. The 655 Lovelace seems to have stopped growing. I won't give up on the 655, as it has a great shape and bright orange color. It will get another shot of fertilizer soon. We are letting 2 pumpkins grow on the 1275.5 Carlson-Petersen, as they are on secondaries on opposite sides of a huge plant. Never could get one set on the main.
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