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Monday, September 26, 2011
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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No recent measureable growth of the pumpkins in over a week, but I hope they are soaking up water and gaining wall thickness. Our measures seem to have prevented any further criter damage. Friday afternoon is loading day and Saturday morning they make the 3 mile ride into Anamosa for the weighoff.
I have a lot of people to thank this year. My wife, Lu Ann, for putting up with my obsession and supporting me. My son Jacob for providing good competition, and maybe letting me win for a change this year?? Ron Cook and Dennis Ellison for truck loads of sheep and cattle manure. Kevin Marsh, Jim Courson, George Witter, and Ralph Trumm for the seeds we grew. Joe Wagner for the use of his truck to get one of our pumpkins into town. Steve "Tremor" Jepsen for the advice that helped me solve our disease problems so we could keep growing. I hope he is looking down and admiring the results of all the people he helped. And God for smiling on our patch this year. When we got frost, it wasn't bad enough to wreck the plants. When others were getting drenched, we had nice gentle rains. When the winds howled, they missed our patch. When it turned dry we got nice rains at critical times. After the scorching heat of July we had a very nice August. When pumpkins started aborting or blowing up, he kept the best ones growing for each of us.
Here is wishing a save trip to and from the weighoffs and heavy weights for everyone.
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