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Saturday, June 22, 2024
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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How many times in a year do you ask yourself the following questions about growing giant pumpkins
1. Why am I still doing this?
2. Or do you Console yourself with thoughts of taking a year off next year? or maybe the thought of this being your last year.
I think many of us would be lying if we didn't answer yes. But then winter comes and we rest... get recuperated.... and we gear up for another year and more battles.
I just came out of the patch dripping wet with sweat, shirt fully saturated, asking myself the first question WHy ??? I could wait until later tonight... but I wont be here.... plus it is supposed to thunder and rain. So It gets done now.
I had a UPS subcontracter delivery guy try and take a short cut through my property. He went off the Wood Chip road and ran over about half a dozen "rocket booster" vines. (The tertiaries that I run back on the first secondary vines on each side)
Also I have been battling with Mites. (usually they only show up on my melons)
A few entries back I said "I am waiting for the shhh to hit the fan". I have been growing giants for a while now and from prior experience I know that typically the shhh hits the fan in the end of June or beginning of July often coinciding with a heat wave. So be warned keep those squash bugs off NOW if you don't want YVD later!!! A friend of mine who had been in the millitary told me his sergeant used to say to him "Mind your P's." Which means... Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
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