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Thu, Jul 9, 09 at 16:11
| My pumpkins are growing pretty well àt this point. I have already started harvesting zukes and some yellow summer squash are getting fattened up this week.I have a few baseball size pumpkins set on what I assume is my big max or hercules volunteer from last year. I also have some nice flowering and some female buds starting on the heirlooms I am growing this year.
For food, I have been using a regular tomato fert granular that everybody seems to recommend in the garden places around here and they get some compost tea sprayed on once a month. What does everybody else use when the want big results when flowering and fruit stages hit? I hear I should limit the nitrogen since the vines are already established. |
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- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Sat, Jul 18, 09 at 13:29
| If you fertilize them too much they will grow more foliage. If the color of leaves are nice green. There is no need to fertilize anymore. But if very light green/yellow then fertilize. If the leaves are dark green, you have already overfertilized them. |
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| Should I keep up the compost tea spraying? |
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