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Saturday, May 04, 2019
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Pumpking
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Germany
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This is the development of my patch in the last 3 weeks (something like that). As you can see, the spot of the 150 sqft plot is still empty (no hoop house). The "big plants", however, are in the patch already. As in previous years, I´m growing two plants on one site back to back (and for the first couple of weeks they will grow next to one another with backups of the same kind). Front: 701.6* Wagler 18 (1807* Holub x self) and 458.1* Wagler 18 (1807* Holub x sibb). Back: 1965 Brandt 15 and 1539 Toftness 16.
The green stuff growing on the patch is rye and vetch. Strategy this year: I´ll let the rye/vetch grow for another few weeks, and as the AG plants grow I will just mow the cover crop and turn the top 2 inch of soil only (using a spade), and then it will be covered by a thin layer of mulch (for that purpose I will use the shredded and ensilaged cover crop).
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