Holy Smokes! Updated - 07/22/2020
Well, first off it's been a crazy week in July across the area. Copious amounts of rain has fallen (but with high winds) across the area. At my location, I measured 4.25 inches during this past week (for SW KS in July that is a lot) but with 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 inches within the county! This rain has mitigated hot temperatures and as a result the giants have responded - as well as the field pumpkins and WEEDS! I'm pretty pumped at this point as a couple pumpkins have REALLY accelerated in growth! The 250 Wallace plant is "out-of-control" in growth! Look at the plant this morning and compare to just 8 days ago! Click here to see what it looked like on the 14th. The very first pumpkin to get pollinated on the 5th was open pollinated (by bees) and had been slow growing. It appears to be done so I'm removing it. It actually lost weight during the past few days. Here it was this morning... It was around 16 pounds. Bye-bye pumpkin! Yesterday I pollin