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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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Steve's Garage
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New Castle, Indiana
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Both fruits on the 2054 have aborted now. So I'm officially done for the season. Boy this is humbling hobby...haha. I may be fielding opinions on whether to do a Terraclean/peroxide drench on my patch since both plants went down. I'll be doing mustard grass on those spots in any case. For next year I definitely need to rework my sprinkler system so I don't have do anything manually. I also need to put in some kind of hardwood border around the patch because the crabgrass that develops on the edges begins to encroach into the patch area. With a border I'll be able to just use the trimmer against it on the outside and just pull whatever grows on the inside. No, I'm still abstaining from putting up a wind fence...lol.
Also, I think putting out six plants to compete for the final two was probably overkill. Next year I will try to just select two plants (or three depending on what I do with the rest of the garden) from whatever I have inside and have either a couple hoop houses or one big one. That will prevent the wind from damaging the young plants before they have a chance to dig in. It may also help with the pests. Obviously we'll double down on the insecticide.
John Pritchard spoke at our club meeting last Spring. I mentioned that we were going to be going on a vacation for a week in late June. His response was 'good luck with that'.....lol....unforunately wishing me luck was not enough.
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