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Thursday, April 05, 2018
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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I'm trying to narrow down our seed selection, if it ever stops snowing. We probably go with all orange, as they seem to do better for us than the big ugly pumpkins. Definite selections are my 748 and 1047.5 McWilliams and 1143 Engel. The final 3 are still up in the air. We have a lot to choose from: 1200 Engel, 1444 Halverson, 823 House, 555 and 1172 Grande, and my 830 McWilliams. We will probably start all of these and see which ones are the most aggressive early growers.
For bushel gourds we have 279.5 English and 265.5 Engel. For a backup we have our own 71.5, which is a 279.5 x sib. The bushel gourds will be planted on a much better spot that has not had anything but grass and legumes growing on it for over 32 years. And much less shade as well.
We will have 3 long gourd plants. Some seeds are getting old, so it will just depend on what germinates. Candidates are 141.25 Vunak, 137.5 Ansems, 129, 123 and 120 McWilliams, 127.5 Young, 125.5 Clementz, and a 97" we grew last year.
We will also try to grow 4 field pumpkins. We have 189 and 132.5 Crews, 118 Witter-Benson, a bunch of House and our own seeds to choose from. 2 plants will go on new ground.
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