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Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Henry-the giant pumpkin grower Topsfield, MA

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A very heavy oxidate drench is now complete. Foaming everywhere. Lots of bad bacteria in this soil! Hopefully we killed a lot of it off. I'll go back in a few days with biologicals and repeat this process every 7-10 days or so with other fungicides. Everything was looking under control a week ago. I was trying to push these things this year and that showed in the weight gains. How quickly things can change. Typical for my patch
 



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