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Saturday, April 13, 2024
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pumpkinpal2
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Syracuse, NY
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I've been on this site for 23 years-plus and I've always had one embarrassing question - butt in Searching on here for 'fertilizer works', 'how fertilizer' and 'how fertilizer works', there is NO result about it but mine entitled 'Don't Stop The Ferts', which I would have thought would have had far more responses and discussion and 'Yeah, great idea...' ...s than it did. THAT is not what THIS is about, butt it just goes to show...I mean, putting fertilizer on a plant or into the soil does not equate to the amount used being fully applied to the pumpkin's size nor weight - nor its color. Else, you COULD have pumpkins that are of 2000 pounds or more having to have had (Purely as an example: 1000 pounds or more of fertilizer added to the soil and supplemental water as well), minus the transpiration and I cannot think of anything else. My belief is that the fertilizer...fertilizes...makes the plant's life be the best it can be to do what we want, which is to grow the biggest, HEAVIEST pumpkin possible. The ferts don't grow the pumpkin - the plant does, so, yeah, to have the soil be the best for the plant in it because of, in part, the fertilizer, is the goal. It is easier to coax a cow to the milking barn with a treat of some sort than it is by trying to push it. I don't have a cow, butt, whatever. If there are any shreds of wisdom here I hope you find them and use them, if any (I got like 3, maybe including DSTF!!!) and here's to a new PB to each and all of us! eg
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