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July 1, 2005
Baby Great Pumpkins
With luck, they'll be at least 300 pounds. Each.
From left to right: Bobkin, Kirstikin, Woodchipkin.
(Not pictured: Bosankin, Cricketkin.)
All in a dead heat at present, for size & weight.
(Cheer for your favorite!)
Honeydo List: fertilize & truncate the vines
at about 10' and bury them, so more roots will form.
Last year's pumpkins were plagued with downy mildew.
This year I'm going to test the bicarbonate of soda cure:
There has been considerable interest in the use of
baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3) and potassium
bicarbonate (KHCO3) to control powdery mildew and other
fungal diseases of plants...
Some of the work at Cornell has focused on controlling
fungal diseases on cucurbits. A single spray application
(to runoff) of 0.5% (wt./vol. of water) baking soda,
plus 0.5% (vol./vol. of water) SunSpray UFP® horticultural
oil almost completely inhibited PM on heavily infected
pumpkin foliage. Baking soda without spray oil was
ineffective, and a 2% (wt./vol. of water) solution
of baking soda damaged the leaves. ...
Posted by Sue at July 1, 2005 8:00 PM
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