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Sunday, June 18, 2006
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Orangeneck (Team HAMMER)
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Eastern Pennsylvania
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Attention: SVB has arrived in pumpkin county, Maryland. Well, what an exciting week of pumpkin growing it has been. Plenty of good news and bad news. Some weather news to begin: it has been very hot, 90°+ for several days and it will be in the upper 80°'s for at least the next 5 days. The plants are loving it and I am giving them lots of water, by hand and under the vine. Trying to keep the stumps dry though. I spotted a SVB on (on the 317 Lawrence of course). Everything bad happens to that plant first. Cucumber beetles are out in full force and they are dying at a rapid pace. I am applying Seven bi-weekly with a compression sprayer right now at the peak of the outbreak, both on top and under the leaves. I have some strange black bugs that look like a spider with a red abdomen but they only have six legs. I don't know if they're good or bad but they don't seem to get killed by the insecticides. I have switched to balanced 10-10-10 granular fertilizer this week in hopes of getting more male and female flowers going. 603 has a female at 6 feet or so and 781 at 7.5 feet. Now, here comes the pics.
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