Atlantic Giant Question
Is the Atlantic Giant plant more susceptible to insect and desease damage than other types of pumpkins? The reason I ask is this, I am attempting for the second year to grow a big AG. This year like last I am having a hell of a battle with squash bug! My plants are not quite big enough to vine off yet but already the squash bugs are running rampant in them. All I can do to fend them off.
On the other side of my house in the edge of a soybean field is a pumpkin vine which came up on it's own. I don't know what kind it is but I do know how it got there. Last fall after halloween I threw the jack-o-lantern into the field right there. It was just a regular pumpkin that we bought at Wal-Mart and probably about 20 -25 lbs. This plant looks AWESOME!!! The vine is about 12 feet long and the biggest leaves are between 15 and 20 inches across. No sign of any insect or desease damage at all. Probably the most beautiful plant I have seen in a while.
Why don't the bugs mess with this one and how come it it doing so good with no care at all. I didn't even know it was there until today!!! We just noticed it.
Thanks,
Mark
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