Re: Rot Inside AGs

Steve, wood chips, sawdust, and ground up pallets will suck the nitrogen out of your soil. Just google "nitrogen and wood chips" and there's a lot of info out there. 
cheers
Marc
layton, ut

Steve Minor wrote:


Thanks again, Steve.  I'm hoping my composted horse manure/sawdust source
isn't infected.  I'm going to protect the main vines from excessive moisture
next year along with the other steps I mentioned before and aim for a
weigh-off 2010.  With all the rain we had in VT this year, a 50 lb mound of
sand under my AGs just wasn't enough.  I still think a field-sized greenhouse
is the way to go.  LOL.  Steve M.

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Stephen Jepsen <ctpumpkin@optonline.net> wrote:

From: Stephen Jepsen <ctpumpkin@optonline.net>
Subject: RE: Rot Inside AGs
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 12:02 PM

You could be growing on sand & pulp mill fabric now. We do & the fruit rot
diseases are no longer an issue here.

Stephen Jepsen
CT GS&PGA Director Emeritus
GPC Executive Committee


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Steve Minor
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:17 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rot Inside AGs

Thanks, Steve.  I'm moving my patch for a few years and plan to limit
watering
to soaker hoses and no contact between fruit and soil at all.  We've had a
lot
of rain and cloudy days for the past 2 seasons in Vermont, and that only
multiplied the problem.  Maybe I should build large hoop houses as well. :-)

Steve M.
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Stephen Jepsen <ctpumpkin@optonline.net> wrote:

From: Stephen Jepsen <ctpumpkin@optonline.net>
Subject: RE: Rot Inside AGs
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 9:46 PM

Sorry for your loss.

Often times we'll conclude there was an unseen breach, but inn this case
more likely a vascular fungal pathogen found its way into the mix.

Stephen Jepsen
CT GS&PGA Director Emeritus
GPC Executive Committee


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Steve Minor
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:05 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Rot Inside AGs

How does rot start inside an AG?  My last three giants all succumbed to rot
and were smelly and hot inside when opened, inspite of all the care I gave
them  Steve M.

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