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Monday, February 21, 2022
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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A couple things I am doing wrong.
First, sowing too many seeds because I think germination may be low, and then boink they all come up.
Second, although I've been doing a good job of spreading mulch around and it helps keep the worms and soil alive and healthy, its also the culprit in spreading disease. I have a holly tree and a rhododendron which I suspect have phytophthora. If I mow their leaves up with the lawnmower and dump them elsewhere I can spread the disease. Im reasonably certain this is how I ended up with phytophthora affecting my 590.5's plant last year.
My cherry trees probably have it also, and a couple Asian pears probably have it.
So even with phyto I still got a nice pumpkin, the problem was I knew if I watered heavily (which would have helped my weight gains) then I would lose at least half the plant. So I barely watered, and the disease didnt spread too much, but the daily gains suffered.
It only took me seven months to wrap my head around this problem.
The smart thing here would be to do bioassays of any amendments prior to adding them to the patch (using your extra seeds). If the seedlings in the bioassay are anything but totally healthy you can rethink that amendment.
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