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Aug. 20th, 2004 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishDamn, how did it get to be Friday already? It seems like I just came in Monday morning.
I seem to remember someone in my garden club saying that you couldn't plant anything in August, because it was hot enough that plants just couldn't get established. However, this has been a very cool summer, and a week or two of marine layer in the mornings have allowed the pumpkin plant to be nearly taken over by powdery mildew.
This morning I tried spraying the leaves with the baking soda/water mixture, but when I checked it before I left for work, it had dried to look almost exactly the same. I was trying to remember the mildew spray I saw in Sunset a year or two ago; it had baking soda, a bit of dish soap, and some other stuff in it, but I can't remember what it was. ML suggested lemon juice at lunch, and I almost think it might have been vinegar, but I'm not sure. She said possibly sulfur dust as well. I'll try that tomorrow morning - I think I still have some from when my potted amaryllises got fungus gnats.
That damn pumpkin has grown to about thirty pounds in a month! I just don't want the vine to die before it's stopped growing. I need to find a piece of styrofoam to put it on so it doesn't rot. It seems like the vine is putting all its effort into this one fruit. Any new one that has started lately get to be about apple-sized and then rots. There are still a lot of flowers, but when I checked them a few days ago all of them were male. I didn't see any female flowers at all. I've never grown pumpkins before, so I don't know if this is what they normally do.
I seem to remember someone in my garden club saying that you couldn't plant anything in August, because it was hot enough that plants just couldn't get established. However, this has been a very cool summer, and a week or two of marine layer in the mornings have allowed the pumpkin plant to be nearly taken over by powdery mildew.
This morning I tried spraying the leaves with the baking soda/water mixture, but when I checked it before I left for work, it had dried to look almost exactly the same. I was trying to remember the mildew spray I saw in Sunset a year or two ago; it had baking soda, a bit of dish soap, and some other stuff in it, but I can't remember what it was. ML suggested lemon juice at lunch, and I almost think it might have been vinegar, but I'm not sure. She said possibly sulfur dust as well. I'll try that tomorrow morning - I think I still have some from when my potted amaryllises got fungus gnats.
That damn pumpkin has grown to about thirty pounds in a month! I just don't want the vine to die before it's stopped growing. I need to find a piece of styrofoam to put it on so it doesn't rot. It seems like the vine is putting all its effort into this one fruit. Any new one that has started lately get to be about apple-sized and then rots. There are still a lot of flowers, but when I checked them a few days ago all of them were male. I didn't see any female flowers at all. I've never grown pumpkins before, so I don't know if this is what they normally do.
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Date: 2004-08-21 01:17 am (UTC)i think the bees did a strike on pollennating yr patch. or something.
tho i do think yr dd is much prettier then that pumpkin!!
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Date: 2004-08-21 02:38 pm (UTC)Oh well, I said I would be happy if I only got one, and it must of heard me. ;)
She is a looker, ain't she? She's 3 today!