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Saturday, June 19, 2010
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Entry 86 of 185 |
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All the cold-frames are off and the plants are in the ‘real world’ now. The silt fence I set up has taken a beating with all the wind the patch has seen but the plants themselves look good (as of today). Keeping the weeds down has been the main consumer of my time in the patch recently.
You will also notice the SVB (Squash Vine Borer) traps at a density of one per plant. I have used these for the last 4 years and I like the monitoring they provide each season. They keep me informed on when insect pressure increases and long it lasts. I have chosen to the traps numbers to a rate of one per plant to hopefully also get the added benefit of mating disruption.
Lastly, I realize it is hard to tell but, the second and third plants that you see pictured are 1385 Jutras clones. This is one of the very few cases where a male flower could be taken from a separate plant and the cross would still be a ‘self’ and not a ‘sib’ since both plants are genetically identical.
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