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Foilage cleanup


Here in California El Nino may drown us in a few months, but for now the
growing conditions seems perfect and I'm having too much fun to quit.
Even though it's way too late for significant results, I'm still
experimenting
(and learning for next year).  Each year I do manage a Thanksgiving pumpkin!

Anyway, to the point: my plant is still growing - in fact better than at any
time
in the season, because of what I've learned about care in feeding (I hope) -
but there's now a significant amount of "old plant" in the patch.  I haven't
too
much space, so the foilage is pretty crowded in places.  My question is am
I better off removing older, brittle and damaged leaves?  Or would that
create more stress than any benefit I may get from removing these weaker
elements that would seem to me to invite disease?  Actually I wondered this
throughout the season as parts of the plant age.  Leave them alone or remove
them?  And if so, how (i.e., bury the pruned sections, etc)   Hmmmm.

Yeah I know it's time to pack it in and get the ground ready for next year,
but..........   Any comments would be appreciated.   Thanks,

...Paul
Costa Mesa, CA
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