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Thursday, June 28, 2012
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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We got a nice 1.5" rain Sunday morning, the first decent rain in about a month. We missed a pollination on the 1351 Trumm due to the rain, but it was close to the stump and still early. Jacob pollinated on of his 866.5's with a 1351 on Tuesday. I missed one on my Witter 1725X1725 cross on Wednesday. The previous night it looked to be 2 days from opening, but the heat accellerated the growth. Temps now are in the mid 90's with heat index well over 100. We were teased by some thunder early this morning but no rain came from it. Cucumber beetles and squash bugs make periodic appearances and are greeted with bifenthrin. If we get some rain, we should still be able to salvage a decent season. One small problem with our field pumpkins: the first one to fruit produced yellow summer squash. I think the grower I got the seeds from may have also grown squash and got some cross pollination. The fruiting plant is bushy like summer squash but other plants are running vines. I hope we get some decent pumpkins from them.
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