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Sunday, August 23, 2020
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TwinsCentral
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Fraser Valley, BC, Canada
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Today’s post has me frustrated - an animal (I suspect mole/vole) has bleeping #%*+!##* (insert swear words) got into my patch and munched on my patch!!! I found a mound of dirt inside my patch which is why I suspect mole/vole. Does this mean the bleeping #%+*#% thing is in ground munching on my patches roots? It won’t happen next year due to how I’m going to do things, but for now I lost a baseball sized pumpkin because “it” chewed off half the bottom!!! Thank god my prized is higher up and covered.
On a positive note, tho likely too late in the season, two baby’s took pollination by bees I guess when I was away so I’m going to allow them to grow... same plant as the one that got chewed. The only pumpkin on my main plant is my keeper, Andrea.
I had mentioned in posts that I was using 20-20-20 and why the nitro worried me... my one plant decided to climb a tree... literally, lol. I had it leaned against the stump and up it went literally up to a branch which it’s tendrils clung to and well... it’s happy and climbing, lol. I didn’t have any pumpkins at the time On it till the one that got eaten, so figured may as well let it grow since there is more light up there anyhow lol. And today I noticed a pumpkin growing there... to cut it or not cut it off... as if I do there isn’t a pumpkin growing on the plant. Figured I’d experiment and see what happens with it... truthfully I don’t expect much but maybe something amazing will happen when I least expect it.
On another note, been imagining how to make a wet suit for a pumpkin. Something stretchy, yet moisture wicking. If it keeps a human warm in cold water why not a pumpkin :) I know the pumpkin has to have air circulation... then there is those sock warmers :) what I think I’m going to do is use the sand warmers that you heat up in the microwave and place around base of pumpkin with blanket. Cheap and simple for the two weeks I may need it. A one size fits all stretchy protective suit still intrigued me tho... I’ll have all winter to ponder over it :)
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