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Monday, July 27, 2009
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pumpkinJesus
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The bottom of New Jersey
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So here is a picture of what I saw on the Ceja plant Saturday morning. Major wilting on all the leaves closest to the stump. Upon close examination of the main stem, there was goop oozing out of it in several places, almost certainly bacterial wilt. This is why I go insane every summer at this time. I now believe that it is virtually impossible to eliminate the cucumber beetles here, the carrier of this disease, because the meadow that surrounds the pumpkin patch probably contains its own population of the beetles and they will always re-invade the pumpkin patch from outside. It is refueling my fire to find a way to cover the entire patch in floating row cover again next year.
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