Interior Alaska update
- Subject: Interior Alaska update
- From: g* b*
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:31:15 -0800 (AKDT)
What looked like a good start is turning into a frustrating start. Have
lost the first five fruit (on three different plants). Got my hopes all
up three weeks ago when there were both girls and boys on a couple of
plants -- that was the earliest ever by quite a lot. But even though the
plants are flowering early, the fruit just aren't setting. Really
frustrating! Don't know what's going on; it's been warmer than usual but
nothing like the temps which folks further south worry about. I've grown
a lot of pumpkins over the years and have never had this happen.
Hand-pollinated two more yesterday and another today, but there's not
enough of the growing season left (we'll almost certainly have had a hard
frost by Labor Day, and perhaps a couple of weeks earlier than that) to
get what I had hoped would be the really big one (by Interior Alaska
standards). Rats. There's some solace, I suppose, in the fact
that the sweet corn is way ahead this year and that putting the corn
inside of, rather than outside of, the electric fence means that the moose
won't get it all this season.
Gail in Fairbanks
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