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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
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Big Daddy Punkin
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North Carolina
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i haven't posted in a while because i lost all my pumpkins here at home to mosaic virus. My ag agent sent tissue samples to NC State and their lab confirmed it. My ag agent told me the most likely source of the infection was from a field next to me that is farmed. The farmer let it grow up in weeds, then sprayed it with weed killer. Insects eat on weeds that carry the mosaic virus and then spread it to garden plants. When every plant in the field died, all the insects flooded my garden and pumpkin patch. I share this so others may learn from my experience. It is beneficial to keep weeds under control near your patch to the extent you can.
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