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Thursday, February 01, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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The key to orange pumpkins is orange mycorrhizal colonies. Lol... I know mushrooms are a different type of fungus than endo-mycorrhizae... I'm just joking around. Although, I do think there must be some cross compatibility in the types of substrates that help support healthy endo and ecto mycorrhizal activity.
In plain English... I think straw/hay is a perfect amendment. I don't get why everyone else has so much trouble with weeds. I think less tilling must equal less weeds. Thick organics is a bad place for most seeds to try to get started. I have perennial weeds like blackberries and bindweed and grass, all of which can be (mostly) killed with round up. Other than that, I basically don't pull or hoe at all. The pumpkin plants just shade the annual weeds into submission (and they get severely eaten by bugs and slugs). Anyhow weeds is a big zero on my list of concerns. Overall, a thick layer of hay or leaves will reduce weeds far more than increase them, in my experience.
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