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Sunday, August 21, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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and this side view pic has my back literally to the wall and leaning on the ivy covered brick wall of the house with the camara held out sideways to try to fit it all in. not the best pic, but a good side view i haven't pictured yet. you can see the row cover fabric i have removed for the pic that i use on the backside hanging off the tarp structure. i have elevated the tarp to keep it higher away from the pumpkin for heat purposes especially with the proximity to the brown brick house. and the row fabric attached to tthe sides blocks sidways sunlight for a high tarp structure while still allowing good airflow that a tarp all the way down further would trap. first time i have did this out of necessity with the high heat this year and anything i was able to do to keep the air temp around the pumpkin cooler was done. this included keeping the fan blowing over the stem side rib splits since day 30 that have shown and healed and are still showing and healing and the fan is tilted and positioned to blow up over the dry splits and over the pumpkin. this expels the trapped hot air under the silver sun reflecting tarps out the other side that has no row cover since no sun can hit that side. i should have cleaned up the weeds that grew in the corner of the tarped areas shown in this pic, but i will get those tomorrow with the weekly weed haircut i do before fungicide spraying with the fogger. not going in the patch at all today to let things dry out. 1.75" in the rain gauge yesterday wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but for today i will let things dry out on a beautiful 80 degree low humidity brilliant sunshiney day. nice day to go spend in the bar. lol.
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