Bhaskaran Patch 2006 Update #1! Advil time of the year (sore body! :-)

Howdy from SE Minn!
We are on track for one of the wettest Aprils ever, so hopefully this will  
help later in the year...just makes a big mess out of digging the holes as I 
dig  trenches to drain water. :-)
 
Here's the lineup this year (10 plants):
So far I'm 100% on germination (cross your fingers! :-)...have 8 of the 10  
going..started the final 2 yesterday...here is the current lineup:
 
First 8 that are getting above ground:
578 Bhaskaran 05 (1446 Eaton(F) x 1048 Companion) - Risky on color.
648 Bhaskaran 05 (1385 Daletas(F) x 798.5 Bhaskaran(?))
802 Bhaskaran 05 (981 Zunino(F)  x  759.5 Bhaskaran)
2 plants of 781.5 Frantz 05  (1101 Northup(F) x 1125 Frantz)
2 plants of 501.5 Beachy 02 (  ? x ?) (Grew my 1038 and 987.5 lbers  last 
year)
670 Daigle 04 (810 Dill 99(F) x 1230 Daleta 01)
 
Last 2 in the incubator (1 gal milk jug filled with hot water plus Coleman  
cooler - I put in wet paper towel in a ziplock and then once sprouted into a 4" 
 pot that is in the cooler and once above ground into an 8" clay pot under 
the  grow lights and quickly from there to the garden):
1420.5 LaRue 04
753 Eaton 04 (1132 Eaton 03 (F) x  842 Eaton 02)  - Risky on  color.
 
I've also started a few backups:
1036 Companion  - a Red/Orange
529 Brinkley - Great cross....1385 Daletas x 1048 Companion  (red/orange)
 
I've got two hills(with cheap earth greenhouses)  all set up and  ready to go 
with heating coils, I try to get the pumpkins out ASAP. What's in  the hill, 
you ask? Things added to the 8ft Diameter Circle x 2.5 ft deep (3  hills gulp! 
to go):
50/50 on Cow Manure  and Compost (no top soil - fresh start each  year)
Lime
Ironite
Gypsum
mychrozzia (sp :-)
Peat Moss
 
Wishing you all a fun start to the year!
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN

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