Direct Start Update 4/20/98
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- Subject: Direct Start Update 4/20/98
- From: G* <G*@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:31:19 EDT
N. Tewksbury, MA about 25 miles Northwest of Boston in the Merrimack River
Valley.
Planted 4/13/98 in prepared mounds, method used is the Direct Start Method
combined with the Compost Feeding Method listed on Dan’s Page with pictures.
http://www.athenet.net/~dang/pumpkins.html .
Planted 10 seeds in the first mound AG-480-97-GB a AG-553-92-GB child crossed
with AG-717-91-MM, (Mike MacDonald) and AG-798-95-PNZ, (Zehr).
** 80% germination in 5 days (broke ground). More may still come up.
Planted one seed each in the second mound.
Greer 1006 Germinated in 4 days (broke ground), very vigorous.
Anderson 977 Germinated in 7 days (broke ground).
Weather during germination period.
L H Sun? Precip
25 66 Sunny 0.00
28 65 Sunny 0.00
30 65 C/Sunny 0.00
45 69 CMC S TR
51 63 C S's 0.33
41 65 Sunny 0.00
47 62 CMC S's TR
43 55 CMC R 0.75
George
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