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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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Its time to pull my last AG plant. Not only did the groundhog eat off all of the vine tips and the last remaining basketball size pumpkin, but he tore up the center of the plant and dug a new den right in the patch. I hope he was home when I dropped the poison smoke bomb down his front door. Jacob has a couple basketball size pumpkins on plants that are getting chewed up. We put out fox urine to discourage the critters. We started getting some rain and decent temperatures, and the mildew and brown rust diseases are now hitting the long gourds. We have a few that will likely make personal bests, but not big enough to be competitive. We may have to give up on those, as the humid microclimate in our valley seems to be better at growing disease than gourds. The watermelons are still going OK. Our cover crops of rape, turnips and groundhog radishes are sprouting as are the weeds. I guess this just wasn't meant to be our year.
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