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Pumpkin Blight: Clean Up and Rotate for Next Year

Sudden leaf browning + plant death = blight. Remove all debris (burn/trash, don’t compost). Rotate pumpkins to new spot yearly. Blight persists in soil/compost. Plant kale or fall broccoli in cleaned bed for a bonus crop.

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