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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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Spring weather this year has been a repeat of the past few years, cold and wet. Morning lows have been in the 30's and highs in the 40's the past few days with a lot of rain. The main pumpkin patches won't get any tillage this spring. They got deep tillage around the stump and main vine areas last fall and shallow tillage on the rest after lots of amendments were added. I have been adding more topsoil by widening out the drainage ditches. If we get another flood I hope the patches will be high enough and the ditches will have enough capacity to save the plants. A little glyphosate to kill the early weeds and residual grass along with a light application of 10-0-10 and some Merit will be the rest of the spring preparations.
Watermelons should get started tonight, with the pumpkins and long gourds to go in about a week. I'm going to try the long gourds one more time and use some copper based fungicide to hopefully put a stop to the disease problems. I just need a little less rain than the past 3 seasons.
Jacob will be growing with me again this year. His first year of college is nearly done, and he will have the summer to help in the patch. I just hope he can land a summer job to help with the tuition!
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