The Pumpkins are in and doing well. Big thanks to Sr. Flores for getting them started. The 2 towards the backstop are the student plants and the 2 nearest the jungle gym are the teachers. In another week or so they’ll be needing to be sprayed with a variety of things every other day. Mainly Liquid fertilizer, Seaweed and worm and or compost tea. I’ll be putting a schedule together and I’ll pass it around so you can sign up for whatever day you can. Don’t feel obligated but many hands make light work. All very easy. In about 2 more weeks they’ll start taking off and if all is well in a month or so we should start getting some flowers. We’ll be hand pollinating the flowers then selecting the pumpkins we want to grow and removing the others. At this point you’ll all want to make sure you stop by and see the magic. It’s not uncommon to go from a flower to a 10 lb pumpkin in 3-4 days.
I think at this point we’ll probably be removing 2 of the plants to allow room for the big guys to grow. Is anybody good with pictures? I’d like to capture some of this to show the student when they return from summer break. I hope we have a couple 300 plus pounders started on their return, growing to 400 – 500 by the time we weigh off. Maybe we get lucky and get a couple of 1200 lb guys? The seeds are from 1500lbs? And if you see a couple of new plants growing there is a chance that several 200 lb Watermelons may show up too.
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