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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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I just looked at Matt D's diary from last year, What a season he had! To describe it I will use a baseball analogy..... Matt hit a deep fly ball out of the park, unfortunately it went foul just before crossing the foul pole. What happened, was a very rare and unfortunate horticultural event. Not caused by a disease or insect... but taken down by a few simple weather conditions that caused a weird thing to happen in the plant called edema. (Note:I have been in and around horticulture all my life and had never seen it, or paid attention enough to notice it!)
I had heard from bedding plant growers that it can quickly disfigure a crop of climbing (ivy leaf) geraniums in a greenhouse situation, but thats about it. I had no idea it could be yet another thing to worry about on a giant pumpkin!!! Matt showed to us that it can happen! and is now one more thing to add to the list that we giant pumpkin growers can have nightmares about. (Continued)
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