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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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We had a light frost this morning; I hope it is the last one of spring. Jacob and I started seeds last night. 994, 1135 and 1355 Bhaskaran, 1094 and 1237 Horton, and 623 McWilliams are our first choice pumpkins. The 623 is a cross of my previous personal bests. We started a 683* Horton green squash for something different. We also started one of Jacob's 547 McWilliams for my daughter Jessica, because she wants to grow some "pretty, orange" big pumpkins. We plan to set several on that plant. We also started 111 7/8 Lovelace and 114.5 Schnicker long gourds. We moved our long gourd trellis down the hill to the main pumpkin patch where they will get better air circulation. The trellis is re-designed to give them more growing room, so they hopefully don't suffer the same fungus problems we had the past 2 years. They are on a raised bed beside a drainage ditch, so hopefully they won't be affected if we get too much rain.
Today we visited the college Jacob will be attending this fall, and he even picked up 2 scholarships. I wish I had that good of a college to go to 38 years ago. Once he gets to school, I will have to finish off his patch chores for the rest of the growing season. But he is already helping out with extra chores this spring to make up for it. On weekends when he isn't playing in the band for home football games, he can make the 2 hour drive back home to keep track of his babies.
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