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matthewthemanparker
Anybody started yet? Yesterday I tilled my garden and got it ready for planting. I live in south Georgia so risk of frost was gone a month ago. I plan on getting some seeds this week to go along with the seeds I saved from carving last year and plant Saturday. This is my second year attempting to grow with last year not going too well. I had a couple of pumpkins reach the size of baseballs and softballs but ended up turning to mush seemingly overnight. Crossing my fingers this year for at least a couple of good carving pumpkins this year.
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Seeds went in the ground today. I used some leftover seeds from last year. If nothing pops up in a week or two I'll go buy some newer seeds. I had ordered some seeds through Amazon last month but they never showed up.
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Col. Fryght said:
Any secrets Matthew to get pumpkins to grow in Georgia soil, I mean Georgia clay? :rolleyes: I had planned on building a mound box and filling it soil and fertilizer about 8 feet out. Then letting the vines grow wherever.
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I'm using a raised bed I made last year using landscape timber and filling it with a mix of topsoil and compost. My yard is nothing but clay too.
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Exactly one week after planting my seeds have sprouted.

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This week's progress picture.
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Today's pic. They are coming along great.
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Help! My vines were fine and dandy Monday when I checked them but today I have several leaves that look like this. Any suggestions/ideas what is the problem?

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The humidity here is killer. It's on a timer to water every other day for 15 minutes with misters. I think I'm going to change it to every 4 days for 20 minutes. I'll get some fungicide too.
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I need to do some weeding but there are no more signs of yellowing leaves right now.
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I just cut back on the watering frequency and increased the duration and that seemed to help.
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We've been getting rain about every afternoon/evening and it's starting to take a toll on my pumpkins along with the serious humidity we're having. I've sprayed fungicide a couple of times but that hasn't done much. I would take pictures but it's raining now too.
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Not looking too good.
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If I have time I will take a sample to my local nursery. They are pretty knowledgeable there. It's just finding time to do it before it's too late.
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I had a visitor today in my garden.
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I have yet to have a single female flower on any of my vines. Is there some sort of secret I don't know about?
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I love seeing everyone's pictures. Sadly I pulled all but one of my vines up and even it doesn't look too good. All my vines had split right at the base and were slowly dieing off. Not sure why they split. I found no bud inside the vines.
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