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Sunday, February 10, 2008
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Jordan Rivington (JRO)
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Have been away too long. So busy with wedding planning. Well, the wedding is over now. All was a success. I am happy to call Kristin my wife now. Hopefully will be able to get back to the orange stuff now.
I had a bunch of posts I was going to put up, but I think I will just summarize my "winter findings" and carry on from now.
1. if you don't start your cover crop early enough (even if it is called winter wheat) it won't start...well not very much anyhow.
2. If you plan to use soaker hoses (t-tape) for watering, and your patch is 3000 square feet or more, expect to spend at least $700-800, or just decide to go with overhead watering in the morning like I have decided to do in 2008.
3. If you plan to spray a large patch (which you will have to do, especially to prevent PM from the overhead watering) and don't want to spend the equivalent of a full time work week in the patch, buy a gas powered mister blower (which I will be picking up at the GVGO spring seminar in April).
4. As long as you don't kill the tree, extreme pruning will likely benefit a patch which does not receive enough sun, is well worth the cost.
5. Similar germination techniques to those we use for AGs (including filing, soaking, etc) work for watermelons and LGs too.
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