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Saturday, July 23, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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104 degree heat predicted here in Joliet tomorrow. today was supposed to be close to 90, but cloud cover has kept it in the low 80s all day. with this soon to be drastic temperature change that will last 2 days, i decided the overall best thing to do was to water thoroughly today to get the ground saturated to help keep soil temps down. i just got done putting the 30 percent shade cloth over the entire patch tonight and will leave it up until monday evening at dusk when the mini heat wave is supposed to pass. i will also put large stand up fans on both Noah and Tre' since they are closer to my house and the brown brick is sure to absorb and radiate heat also. the fan on Noah will be within the overhead watering system range, so i will have to remove the fan all day back and forth as i intend to water for five minutes every half hour from 10:30am until the sun goes down. the heat monday is supposed to be closer to 98 but i will be at work. my 4 setting water timer will cool the plants down 4 times during the day for 20 minute watering intervals. the high powered stand up fan will be cranking on high monday all day from behind Tre' and blowing towards Noah. i have been using it all last week as it was about 90 every day. it really works nice at keeping the temps below the tarps down and also the air blowing across the pumpkins should help keep their internal temperatures in a safe zone. this fan can be set up outside of the watering sytem reach on my sidewalk near the house so the watering system can be used while running it. a lot of this is probably overkill, but i am glad the 104 degree day is falling on a sunday so i can do what ever i can from cooking my pumpkins.
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