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Monday, July 09, 2012
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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The watermelons and long gourds seem to like the heat. They are doing better than we have seen in many years. The AG's don't like it. Several plants get droopy in the afternoon, even with Jacob watering them twice a day. Lots of new leaves are getting burned on the edges, and some female blossoms die without even opening. We have been pollinating and placing an ice pack and covering with a foam cooler. We will know in a few days if they take. I'm going to have to call all of our pollinations "open" this year. It has been too hot in the evening to go out and bag the new flowers. It is so warm in the morning that the bees are already active at first light. We have a plague of bees this year, and every flower that is starting to open just a little will have one or more bees in it. At least this week is going to be in the mid 80's instead of upper 90's to low 100's.
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