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Sunday, March 18, 2018
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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2016 was a disappointing year for the giant pumpkins. The best one to make it to the scale was this 830# grown from the 289 Buglio Howard Dill winner and pollinated by my 748 McWilliams Howard Dill winner. I will grow seeds from this one and a several other great orange pumpkins. May even try one with the blossom end down. Field pumpkins did better, with me and Jacob taking 2nd and 3rd at Bloomfield and 1st and 2nd at Pawnee City. We will be planing some of those too. I wasn't planning on growing watermelons until Rusty Caspers brought me some seeds from John and Meri Barlow's Wisconsin record. Some spots with disease problems will go to mustard, and I added another fungicide to try to head off diseases. I hope the below zero weather killed off overwintering bugs. I checked the patch to see if I could burn it off, but its still too wet. I guess its time to start tomato seeds; just for fresh eating and canning and not competition.
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