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Thursday, June 21, 2018
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RyanH
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Eganville, Ontario
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I haven't been taking enough pictures. It's always nice to look back year to year. Part of the reason I haven't been taking pictures is my disastrous weed situation. You can see how quickly they take over. This year I seem to have crab grass added to the mix, which doesn't like to be pulled easily.
I love the drip tubing but the one knock is no more tilling after may. This creates a problem when you have enough weeds to create a new lawn with one cut from a lawnmower. Makes me sick to be honest. I believe they came in from a large load of old manure, which was really a 12 year old pile of weeds that dropped seeds for 12 years before I dumped it in my garden.
Anyway, we can't go backwards but I do get jealous seeing many people's weed free soil, or even soil with minor weeds. Mine is awful.
So I sprayed round-up 30 hours prior to this picture. Remember, I've killed my plants two years out of 6 with round up. I don't want to use it but there's no other way. I'd honestly rather have no plants than a weed mess in the pumpkin patch and look at that all summer.
Yesterday was a great morning to spray. Zero wind, and I stayed back a few feet. I use a blast sheild as well which always stands between plant and spray. I'm confident all is well but we'll know next week. I'm gone for the weekend so it will be an interesting check in Monday. I sprayed all three plants, took about an hour and a half. Hated every minute as the bugs were really hungry at sun-up.
Pollinations on all plants and some with two pollinations. Plants are large and look really good. Tissue tests were pretty well balanced.
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