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Friday, September 05, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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220.3 DeBacco ‘13 “Snowball” (x 1676.5 Daletas)
Here I am harvesting my Durham Fair entry, as you can see the virus infection killed almost the entire plant. Only 5 leaves remain and my grass cover crop has established itself nicely. This image also shows the modified Team-Pumpkin tripod as this style has couplers that join two eight foot 4”x4” wooden posts together. This allows this 16ft. tall tripod to be transported in a small car like a Honda Civic with ease. This does make handling and storing this once a year use item easier.
Due to the lack of plant material this pumpkin has not grown for at least last three weeks, but I left it attached. Now that my Woodstock Fair entry is off the trailer and carved I now have space to load this one up. It is a little depressing when you go to cut the pumpkin off the vine and realize that there is no reason to cut it because the vine is not attached to anything.
I should also point out that this is how the plant looked, before I pulled any vines out so as you can tell there has not been much supporting this pumpkin for a long while. On the plus side the grass did provide a nice carpet like ground cover so thing got soil splash on it at all. I am still thankful for having a pumpkin to harvest after the sever virus infection.
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