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Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

In my line of work folks are always asking "when is the best time to spray...." as though bugs & fungal pathogens keep a calendar.

They don't.

Most of my customer & the better Pumpkin growers that I know talk to each other so they know where pests are starting to show up. They have learned that a pest that sometimes shows up on July 1st might come 2 weeks earlier & rip them to shreds if they subscribe to the "it's always worked before" theory.

Here is a useful tool that is used by Golf superintendents & other Green Industry professionals. I will suggest that similar pest predicitions can be had by any of us but especially those who don't belong to a good growers club.

http://www.greencastonline.com/SoilTempMaps.aspx

4/13/2006 7:40:35 AM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

very cool

4/13/2006 11:49:17 AM