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Indiana

Hang in there with the rain. I was right with you last summer in my patch. we had a total of 60 inches in May, June, July, August, and September. Thats an average of 12 inches a month! These plants can handle a lot of abuse. You gotta keep the fruit elevated, and the stems and fruit dry. Try a bleach solution on the stems and then a dry powder to absorb moisture such as Captan or regular garden sulfur. Dry fruit is the key!

Tom Beachy

2/16/2004 11:39:03 PM

Hobbiton New Zealand

All the pumpkins are on polystyren and covered they have been throwing captan around like it is snowing it helps but a fewdays of dry weather would be really good.
Some of the rivers around here are running at between 7-8 meters higher than normal.
But i still get the odd tourrist stop and knock on the door asking if they can take a photo with the pumpkins and sunflowers so that makes it all good I suppose

2/17/2004 2:52:09 PM

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7-8 METERS higher than normal?!?!? Yikes! How about life preservers for those babies. Hang in there Darky!

2/17/2004 5:29:18 PM