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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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So far this pumpkin is drinking better water than I am--I am using the filtered chlorine free drinking stuff in plastic containers--too bad I can't use this tuff once it gets outside in the garden! I have heard of peopple draining their hot water tanks to feed these things.
Compost update: I recently added 7 bags of grass clippings from my lawn. It seems my lawn was in dire need of trimming (about 4-5 inches high), and I thought, why not bag it and use it to feed the pumpkin. I buried it along the sides of the trench (in the first picture up above). Right now, I have a ton of organic matter in that soil--it will be really fluffy. It's really deep (brown loam 4 feet, maybe 5, now that I raised it). I have a ton of manure, and I extended it a couple of feet so that it measures about 5X8 feet. With the addition of the cables and some ferts I think I will have a decent growing medium--but I have to mix it better because some of the rye is still not rotted.
I will try to secure a 200 liter blue food barrel to fill water into so that I can prefill and warm the water in the sun that I will use for the pumpkin. The water from the hose is soooo cold! I have to make the time to do this. Last year my soil and water were always too cold. Too cold= less growth.
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