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Giant Pumpkin Garden

I'm hoping to grow a pumpkin from a couple of seeds taken from the winner of the 2006 Santa Cruz County Fair. I'm not sure how Tim got his hands on these, but nice snag! The two seeds he gave are 630 Sprinsock and a 534 Albrecht DMG. Since our soil, if you could call it soil, is void of any known nutrients, I had to import a tandem load in from Basalt. By no means is it 'black dirt' but it's as close as I'll get on the western slope. I built a rock wall and installed the dirt. My next jobs are to germinate the seeds, run power up to the garden for the heat tape in the soil, and install a dedicated valve so the garden has it's own zone. I'll update the irrigation schematic soon.