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Monday, June 22, 2020
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jimp
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Allentown, PA
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Was away 2 days – came back at 84 deg, bright sun and all the leaves looking like umbrellas – forgot to turn on the irrigation soakers that I so laboriously installed the day I left. Designed the pattern with a CAD program last fall, laid it out exactly as planned and forgot to turn on the timer. Ground looked like the Sahara - I don’t know how ANYBODY gets a big pumpkin to a weigh-in. So today, buried secondaries, cut tiny tertiaries and all the dendrils (boy do THEY grow fast!), turned on soakers 45 minutes and then put sprinkler out for half hour. everything perked up. Set soakers for 45min/day as long as we have this hot sunny weather predicted all week.
Also set out 4 fans – had them out on the pumpkins last fall, never thought to put them out on the vines in the summer. Saw some other grower do it on bigpumpkins.com so obviously a good idea. So now I spin the electric meter for the entire spring, summer and fall, instead of just spring and fall. Who knows.
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