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									Happy Independence Day everyone!  I'm celebrating by giving my basal crowns (back in Kansas where I grew up we would have called them stumps) some much needed attention.  I had all sorts of new vines starting to grow & broken old leaves starting to rot.  I cut them all off & did one of my favorite pumpkin growing  jobs:  I sprayed the places where I cut them off the vine with Hydrogen Peroxide.  It wasn't your household 3% solution either.  It was 34%-spray it on the bad spot & watch it foam up hydrogen peroxide! It was almost as much fun as putting salt on a slug.  Then I put a fan on the cleaned up wounds.  In few hours everything will be dry & ready for the next three months.
								
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