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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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There are five plants in this picture. They are the 323 LaRiviere squash, 1426 LaRiviere, 1642 Sperry, 1299 Wolf, and 626 Wolf. The plants in this patch were grown over a hay mulch. Here is what I did. In April I spread 4" of partially composted horse manure and shavings. I mixed in some M-roots and Chickety-doo into each planting site. Then I covered the area with mulch hay. As the plants grew I kept expanding the hay mulch. Early on I noticed I was not getting enough rooting, so I began covering the leaf nodes with garden soil. This helped increase rooting and reduced wilting and leaf burn. It just took a while for the roots to catch up with the tops.
These plants have been superior right from the start. I am not sure why. I had known that "dale" in Australia had been growing some whoppers with a permanent mulch, I contacted him and he advised me to watch the Movie "Back to Eden" on a website called documentary storm.
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