My horse manure/sawdust mixture is BLACK and crawling with red worms. I mix
it up with maple leaves and use a composting accelerator sprayed with a
high-nitrogen grass fertilizer in the fall. In the spring, before I use it
for plants, I drown the mixture in fish emulsion and turn it to mix it up at
least 2 weeks before I plant my AGs in Miracle-Gro potting soil in the middle
of the compost mix. I then plant my seedlings and try not to water or
fertilize too much for the first 7-10 days, then start using a high P
fertilizer for root growth once a week at one-half strength plus diluted
foliar feedings. Hopefully this will do until the second month or so when I
start feeding diluted fish emulsion for plant growth. I also use mycorrhizae
wantonly from day 1. Hopefully, during all this, my plants get enough N to
grow. If anyone has any suggestions to add to this, please let me know, as
this is only my second year. Steve M.
--- On Wed, 9/2/09, mltovar <mltovar@wooden-clockworks.com> wrote:
From: mltovar <mltovar@wooden-clockworks.com>
Subject: Re: Rot Inside AGs
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 2:54 PM
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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