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Sunday, June 27, 2021
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mrs.pumpkinhead
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Alameda, CA
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Catch up: planted seeds in early April. Sprouts began to appear April 14. Some crapped out, so I got more seeds and started the second round of seeds in early May. Transplanted sprouts from 4”x4” pots to a 5’-diameter kiddie pool in mid May. Used many bags of raised bed potting soil and mixed in blood meal. Started adding some weird “fish shit juice” from my husband's aquaponics friend about a week ago. It was some sort of sorcery. They are GROWING!
Current: I have six kiddie pools of giant pumpkin plants in my driveway. Three have a lone plant because I learned my lesson. One contains two plants, one of which has the monster vine of the “farm”…it’s about 6-foot, thick and firm and has serving tray sized leaves and buds! One pool has three plants…longest vine there is about 8 feet. One has five plants. I made the mistake (?) of naming them…which did encourage me to take better care of them but wayyyy too hard to eliminate underperformers. I need to learn to be more ruthless. Video is from this morning.
Doing what I can with the space I have ??
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