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Thursday, May 10, 2018 Iowegian Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

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I got busy and didn't notice that the 127.5 Young long gourd had not shed the seed coat. By the time I got it pulled off, the ends of the cots were getting rotten. I'm not sure it will survive, so I started another. I made sure I did a good job filing down the edges of the seed. My 129 long gourd hasn't sprouted yet, so I started one of Jacob's 123 seeds and a 125.5 Clementz. We want to have 3 good plants. The 118 Witter field pumpkin didn't germinate, so I started another and also a 132.5 Crews.

A critter dug up the fish heads I buried from our last trout fishing trip. Luckily nothing was planted over it. First time this has happened in years. No more fish heads in the garden this year. I got the electric fence sprayed with glyphosate, and hit some thistles and garlic mustard near the garden, and a few clumps of grass and other weeds in the pumpkin plots. I also hit the new field pumpkin patch to take out the old grass.
 
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