Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 46 Entries. Monday, May 26 View Page Since I didn't post much last year, this was the best to come out of my patch @ 237 lbs. With the exception of another 183 lbs one (open pollinated) everything else split on me so it wasn't a good year for seed saving either.... Onward an upward, a new season begins. With there no longer being a later show in Southampton I decided to plant my marrow seeds a whole 6 days earlier than normal (26th may) as Malvern always seems just a few days to early for me. Aiming for 1st of August fruit sets (or as close to) which will give me 8 full weeks untill Malvern. Friday, May 30 View Page First signs of life... Sunday, June 1 View Page Father Christmas watching over them for me! Sunday, June 8 View Page Planting out day... Line up for me, 235 x 14 237 x 2 My son Jack will also be growing 4 x 235. Tuesday, July 1 View Page Plants aren't doing too bad on the whole, it's been quite windy here on and off for weeks and we've taken some damage from birds. Tuesday, July 1 View Page Looking good. Thursday, July 24 View Page Plants aren't looking too bad on the whole. Pollinations will be starting in about another week. Monday, August 4 View Page We have a marrow... Friday, August 8 View Page ... Saturday, August 9 View Page The main patch Wednesday, August 13 View Page .. Wednesday, August 13 View Page another one... Saturday, August 16 View Page The main patch from a different angle Saturday, August 16 View Page Vine bury job almost done... Saturday, August 16 View Page .. Tuesday, August 19 View Page ... Tuesday, August 19 View Page Just about done Tuesday, August 19 View Page And the pic lol Saturday, August 23 View Page The Marrows are making good progress... Saturday, August 23 View Page I really like the look of this one. Friday, September 5 View Page I keep forgetting to post updates! Featured marrow is growing along nicely and hasn't split yet. Friday, September 5 View Page . Saturday, September 6 View Page Unfortunately this one didn't make it. Monday, September 22 View Page Well....the marrow went down. Monday, September 22 View Page Split came on the underside Saturday, September 27 View Page So no WR or PB for me this year but this year has been my best ever regardless. I genuinely feel that I had and lost three marrows that would have had a shot at the WR. This one wasn't overly long but measured 75 inches around the middle. Saturday, September 27 View Page Unfortunately it opened up on the underside like the other one Saturday, September 27 View Page I also think this one wouldn't have been too far short either but a stem split done this one Saturday, September 27 View Page This one was far longer than any marrow I've grown before at 63 inches long. Unfortunately going down to a stem split. Saturday, September 27 View Page . Saturday, September 27 View Page So after taking some heavy losses and a week before malvern I fould myself down to my last two sound marrows and a third one which had deep cracks at the blossom end. At this point like I've done before I removed the one with cracks and the smaller of the two sound marrows to ensure I would have a legitimate entry for Malvern, gambling the larger one. Luckily for me the gamble paid off and I got this beauty to the weigh off sound. Saturday, September 27 View Page At the scale before weighing. Thanks for the photo Lee Herrington Saturday, September 27 View Page On the scale. Again thank you to Lee for the photo. Saturday, September 27 View Page Coming in at 111 kg which is just over 244 lbs. Monday, September 29 View Page A couple of weeks ago before it split on me I asked Sebastian if GWR would recognise a new long marrow record as at 63 inches long I was fairly sure I had the longest marrow ever grown on my hands so why not. Unfortunately the marrow went down to a stem split so I thought no more about it so I was surprised when I was informed that my marrow was verified as being the WR for the longest. Not the longest ever grown but the first to make a claim for it. Thank you to Sebastian and GWR for making this happen and going forward if anyone's got one longer than 1.454 m make sure you get it verified. Monday, September 29 View Page My son Jack also took a marrow to the show. His weighed 92.5 kg or 203 lbs. He grew it himself too! Sunday, October 12 View Page So we took what was left to Wargrave weigh off last weekend. 2 sound marrows and 3 were DMG. Sunday, October 12 View Page 226 lbs. Sunday, October 12 View Page 229 lbs DMG Sunday, October 12 View Page 236 DMG Sunday, October 12 View Page 253 lbs DMG Sunday, October 12 View Page 233 lbs Sunday, October 12 View Page The highlight of the day of course was of course seeing Ian and Stuarts new WR being weighed, such a shame Stuart couldn't be there. Well done guys you finally nailed it! Sunday, October 12 View Page Monster Sunday, October 12 View Page The damaged marrows weren't all that great inside. No seeds were kept from any of them Sunday, October 12 View Page The three sound marrows are residing in the shed untill the end of the month. Although no WR this year I'm very happy with this season. I'll never know for sure as they were never weighed but I started off with 16 plants, lost one to mosaic virus early on, one was a runt at about 150 lbs and the other 14 were all in excess of 220 lbs. Next year I will have to cut down a little as I may not have so much time but the good news is my son Jack will be growing in the patches I won't be. To be continued......