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Thursday, June 18, 2009
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pumpkinJesus
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The bottom of New Jersey
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I am past due for an update, so here it is!! The weather has been lousy here for pumpkins lately - this past Sunday I took this picture of a puddle in the pumpkin patch, something that I never thought I'd see in June with our field being such a high and dry location. We have received 5.15 inches of rain so far in June with more falling as I write this. High temps have been in the mid-60s and it has been very cloudy even on the dry days. The plants are holding up amazingly well though, just not growing as much as they would be if the sun would shine once in a while. The 1104 Hester is about to outgrow it's tent, so I should be able to take good photos this weekend. The good news with the weather is that it seems to be curtailing insect populations so far - there have been some cucumber beetles, but not a lot, and so far I've only seen 2 squash bugs. I've also been spraying Neem on some of my other squashes that are not under row cover, not really sure yet how effective that has been. When the summer weather finally gets here, that will be the real test.
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