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Sunday, August 21, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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harpo has been a joy to grow in a season of hellish temps, high humidity, violent storms, record july rains and heat. and 4 months ago when the other 5 out of 6 transplanted sprouts had 10 to 20 corn seed maggots take them down in 24 hours including an 1161, this girl survived. upon inspection of the stem all the way to root level on that miserable day it had one single corn seed maggot with its head barely attached to the stem when it was removed and i had to leave it propped up with a small bamboo stick and rush to get supplies at the garden shop before i would backfill any dirt back around the stem........it is just plain silly to think about. the odds just to get this one to this size in this "f"ed up year....definately a long shot. i hope i can just get her in one piece to the scale. and to make it even sillier, as i was taping her this morning i saw a mouse run out from under a board near the pumpkin that i have purposely placed on the side of my house that i have decon under so only mice can get to the poison. it made me feel good that the mouse was eating the poison under the boards. it didn't make me feel good when i scared it and it went right to a rib line groove and under the pumpkin. i had a family living under the 1493 last year in the same exact spot with a nest and tunnels under the mill fabric and they actually pulled weeds under the pumpkin on top of the mill fabric and nested there a bit too with no harm. that still doesn't make me feel much better though....lol.....gotta love this hobby! harpo is sitting at exactly 1100 estimate this morning on day 59.
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