The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 May 1994 — Page 7

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Now is the time to plant your pumpkin to get ready for the Walkerton Great Pumpkin Festival. Verl Haag gives advice on how to grow Atlantic giant pumpkins. Here are tips that help Verl: Start plants in 4 inch pots at 75 degrees. Then choose the healthiest and most energetic ones to be planted outside. Be careful to not disturb the roots when transplanting. You should begin your planting of the giant pumpkins very soon

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to prevent cramping roots in the pot. Plant each seedling 25 feet apart in well drained soil. Work into the soil composted or well rotted cow manure. Your giant pumpkin will need at least 1 inch of water per week, if it doesn’t rain use the water hose, but don’t wet the leaves. Insecticide — Cover the vine of each side every 10 days. Don’t spray the leaves unless bugs begin to feed on them. A common insecticide is fine like Sevin or Mala-

thion. Vine bores are the most likely pest and will kill your giant pumpkin if not propery protected. Blossoms — Giant pumpkin plants have both a male and female flower. The first to appear is the male blossom, then the female flower will show a baby fruit underneath the flower. To pollinate, pick a male flower, then trim the flower petals off, then rub the pollen laden stamen in and around the center of the newly opened female flower, do this at about 11:00 a.m. in the morning, before it get too hot. Your giant pumpking price winner — When you have grown two or three baseball size pumpkins on the vine, choose the one prize winner, and trim off all other pumpkins. Also continue to cut off all future blossoms, so all the strength of the vine goes into the development and growth of the giant pumpkin. Please also be sure to train the vine roots at each joint to curve towards and around the pumpkin so the vine can rise as your giant pumpkin grows taller and taller, or else the vine will break off at the stem. Blossoms — A week solution soluble fertilizer such as 17-52-20 every couple weeks is very important. It takes a large plant and lots of sunshine to produce a giant pumpkin. Be sure to invite some strong friends to help with the harvest. Work a blanket under the giant pumpkin to carry it to the Great Pumpkin Festival the second weekend in October! A peregrine falcon can detect a pigeon at a range of over five miles. | CARBONLESS FORMS To p ill Your Business Needs Independent-News 601 Roosevelt Rd., Walkerton

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