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- From: Ken Bezilla <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cucurbits
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:56 -0500
Here in central Virginia, maximas are almost always a problem -- I'm figuring squash vine borers -- the plants live ~70-80 days, the fruits get nice and big and we get hopeful... and then they die all of a sudden.
2014 was a strange exception -- for the first time I've ever seen, we matured maximas without giving them any help. (That same year, zucchini we planted in April lasted all the way til fall frost -- never seen that before either.) If we really want to mature maximas here, the safest way is to grow them under extra-wide pieces of row cover, and keep them covered for the first 60 days (briefly uncovering for weeding and pollination). Ken Bezilla central VA |
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[Market-farming] cucurbits,
Burke Farm, 01/30/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] cucurbits, Shoemaker, William H, 01/30/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] cucurbits, Road's End Farm, 01/30/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] cucurbits,
Richard Robinson, 01/31/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] cucurbits, Ken Bezilla, 01/31/2016
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