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Monday, August 21, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Gains up a bit today. Taped in the main pumpkin at 318.5 OTT (644 lbs). Go pumpkin go! An increase of 9 lbs--which is not to bad at this stage of the game--day 61. Stem is spliting further--got the fan on it 24/7 just to be sure. I think she'll be alright as the split is much slower than the fruit on the secondary--that one is massive, but still no rot even though it goes into the flesh a few inches it does not breach the cavity.
All the tertiaries and their tiny fruit may have been sucking power lately--I dunno. I will dead-head them soon as I think my leaves are healthy enough to take me to the end of the growing season. I am amazed at some of the old secondaries that are facing south east on a slope. These were some of the first leaves to emerge and they are still standing straight and tall--even though they get hit by a good deal of wind, vine splits, aphids etc.
Fungicide seems to be working great. Have not done foliar application in ages--don't think I will as I don't want to aggravate the aphid situation at this stage of the game. I have sprayed twice and will do so again in a few days (before the weather gets wet). Also, the aphids took a good beating from my last huge spray of End-All--but they are back again. Will spray for those buggers soon.
Got tons of yard trimming done over the last few days (lot is one-third of an acre, so I feel like a full time gardener between yard work and growing veggies and AG's). Got about 200 feet of hedge bordering the lot on both sides--some is 15 feet tall, but gave it a good chop (5 feet lower). This will extend the sun ont he patch next year by at least 1 hour. With all this time consuming work done I will have lots of time to compost and extend the patch in the fall when work starts again.
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