its all here!!

Pumpkineers,
	Oh the excitement is too much tokeep tomyself, I go to the garden this
morning, and it is all here. First sight when looking under the "Natural
Dome" my plants have created is a fully blossomed male flower. I have
dozens of green blosoms days away,but this is my first flower of the 
season. Yehawwww!
	Second I look out to the end of my plant(I am refering to my Andersen
815, a.k.a. - The Darkhorse) and there is a nice looking female  which
should be ready in about a week or so..The vines are 13 ft and the
secondaries are reaching in a few spots up to 6 ft long already.. This
plant is anchoring its self down nicely. 
	As for the Holland 897, this plant is identical, as it is equally as
long, and has tons of green male flowers, and one female blossom which
should be ready in about 1-2 weeks. 
	Every time I water, the mains I have buried come uncovered in a spot or
two, and I am always amazed at the rooting going on, whether it is top
of the vine rooting, ro just the little capillary type roots that can be
fouond all over. Alot of people didnt like the rains we had this season
so far, but I think with the total drenching, and the use of a cloche
this year to prevent oversoaking, my root system will be very deep and
not hanging around the surface looking for its next meal. The deper the
roots, I am assuming the more chance of a bigger pumpkin. 
	I was reading the other night in an old Ottowa St Lawrence
magazine(thanks Farmer Gus) about one fo thier big growers, (I believe
it was a Mcintyre?), that started out in 1996 with just a 25 x 25 ft
plot, and as the plant got bigger, he rototilled up more space and stop
it at 1100 sq ft. I am amazed that without soil being worked, he grew
over an 800 pound pumpkin.. That soil must be awesome!! Sned me some of
that soil !! 
	Oh yeah,. in closing of this Pennsylvania Urban Growers update, I
wanted to remind everyone to get that sevin onto the gardens, especially
here in PA, the cucmber beetles are all over the place here, but with an
early morning detection fo the beetles, I applied liquid sevin and came
back in the eveing to find it to be a cuke beetle graveyard.  
-- 
Lyle "Rocky" Rockwell

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