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Sunday, September 22, 2019
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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Between rains I was able to get out and spread rye seed on deer food plots and some garden cover crop areas. The 1200 Engel continues to grow over 12.5# per day, now estimated at 681#. With 12 growing days to go it might measure over 800#, but I think it will go light. I treated the bad spots on the Caspers pumpkin with Daconil. Maybe they will scab over. The spot at the blossom was oozing clear goo, like a plant that is still growing, so I am hopeful. I will add sulfur powder tomorrow.
I doubt if we have any field pumpkins that will make 60#, and our biggest ones are really ugly. One is long, tapered and wrinkled at the blossom end. Another one grew like a Cinderella, but with a vine stretched tight against one side, and it grew around it. I will try my wife's idea tomorrow; cut the imbedded vine at both ends and hope it shriveles up and shrinks so we can pull it out. We have some real nice looking pumpkins from our 97 McWilliams plants.
Our best watermelons gained 3" and 4" in the past 6 days (8 and 10 pounds), now just 1" (2#) apart. But they are beating our previous best by 60#. Hopefully they will add 16 to 20 pounds by the time Anamosa Pumpkinfest and go heavy. Maybe all this rain will fill them up with water.
We have received close to 5" of rain since Friday. It is a good thing that I already have a lot of tomatoes canned. Our plants are tipping over from the soggy soil, bending the rebar stakes and even tipping over steel tee fence posts. Plants are dying from kinked vines and root damage, and tomatoes are splitting from too much water. I tossed out at least 5 gallons of split tomatoes, but salvaged about 9 gallons.
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