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TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2008
Growing the great pumpkin |
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This year my husband has found his inspiration. It came in a 99¢
plant kit I picked up at Sears: the Great Pumpkin. Normally I am the gardener in the house, but
with that little pumpkin growing on the window sill, my husband was transformed into
super gardener. He has that little pumpkin plant planted out toward the back of our butterfly weed garden in a nice sunny
spot. His little mound all created for the pumpkin, he has been watching for signs that the great pumpkin is starting to form on the little plant's vine!
My only suggestion for hubby is that a gardener's job includes weeding, note the wild blackberry vine and other weeds next to the pumpkin vine to give it room to grow and
for the vines to spread. I think I will have to
lend a quiet helping hand and clean things up for our little pumpkin. While I'm at it, I think I'll fertilize as well.
I cannot help but want to be a cheerleader for our little pumpkin plant. May it turn into the great pumpkin
who could!
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Pumpkin Care
Pumpkins need a sunny location
Plant in rich moist soil where pumpkins will have a lot of room to grow.
Regular applications of fertilizer throughout the growing season.
Pumpkins cannot support a growing pumpkin until their vine is about 10 - 12 feet.
Pumpkins are naturally polinated by bees. If you spray toxic chemicals in the gardens do so in the evening after the flowers have closed. Each day new flowers open and the bees should not visit the ones that you sprayed.
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