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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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Marty S.
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Mt.Pleasant,Iowa
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As some of you may notice around my watermelon plants and pumpkin plants I have straw down. Under that I have brown construction paper to cover the soil. In the past my plants always look great and get pumpkins set and some gain 20-50 pounds a day at times but always shut down around 30-35 days old. Soil and plant test show disease in the soil moderate to high. It happens when soil temps get over 80 degrees in late June early July. The cover is to try to keep soil temps in the 70's as was in 2009 when everything grew and did not get any disease.There is some wheat seeds in the straw and I will let them grow as they come up to help as a cover crop. The plants may slow down with this process or do no good but after years of fighting this with solorizing, mustard, moving sites this is something worth trying.
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