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Monday, February 26, 2024
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Steve's Garage
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New Castle, Indiana
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It's 70 degrees F here and naturally I get into the spirit of things as a result. I raked out the debris from last year's garden. I think we're gonna do a little switcheroo and grow the giant pumpkins on the 'used' side of the garden since it's had some nutrtients returned from unharvested fruits. Should be a good pH to start with anyway. Then I'll just put the general garden stuff on the other/newly tilled area since the pH is probably off there and I don't feel like adding sulfer. Vegetables will grow well anyway with miracle grow...lol. I'll get a soil test done here in a couple weeks and see where we are.
Last year went really well for my first attempt. The fruit taped at about 800 pounds before the vine probably contracted yellow vine disease and stopped the pumpkin growing. Had that not happened I may have doubled the weight. That was off of a self pollinated 1739 Strickler. Hopefully I can acquire a few of his 2054's when we have our spring meeting. I actually wouldn't mind growing the 1739 again because it did so well up until the yellow vine, but I'll plant about 9 seeds inside with a new grow light and see how it goes. I have a number of seeds from growers around Indiana left from last year, as well as my own 746 seeds.
My hope is that we come up with some strategies for combatting the yellow vine problem because just about every big grower in my area had a problem with it last year.
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