Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 136 Entries. Friday, March 21 View Page Started first giant maters yesterday and bunch of other seeds about week ago. First hot peppers are up, so are some herbs and flowers too... Pictures to follow, maybe, perhaps... Tuesday, March 25 View Page Patch few weeks ago...have been crazy winter, coldest ever, just my luck, lol. Tuesday, March 25 View Page Beautiful, sunny spring days :) Tuesday, March 25 View Page Last cold days, I hope! Tuesday, March 25 View Page Started some seeds while ago... my secret seed starting methdod is revealed! Tuesday, March 25 View Page Patch today, finally can see some dirt :) Tuesday, March 25 View Page Would be nice to add the picture too, lol. Tuesday, March 25 View Page Is it really spring now?? Tuesday, March 25 View Page Got the growing light installed, woohoo! See my seed starting boxes? Why pay 10 bucks for mini greenhouses when those pie pans cost $1.19 :D Tuesday, March 25 View Page Chili peppers, mmm! Tuesday, March 25 View Page Can see first mater seedlings peeking from soil, but too small to even take pictures... Friday, March 28 View Page Started our giant watermelon seeds today, now we just wait... Most of the tomato seeds have sprouted, the 5.03 and 2.2 Mentings first, oh yeah! Looking goooood, ready to rock, just need to get rid of that snow... Sunday, March 30 View Page Few pics of my "bucket" tomato from last year... Grown from Menting seed in 2 gallon bucket on blacony :D This is how you grow giant maters guys ;) Sunday, March 30 View Page Some size comparison, thumbs up! Sunday, March 30 View Page Miss tomato... Sunday, March 30 View Page ...showing... Sunday, March 30 View Page ...all her sides :) 1325g / 2.9 lbs. Gotta try at least one seed from this one ;) Thursday, April 3 View Page Snow is finally gone from patch, but... waiting 0.5" ice rain / 4-8" of snow tonite and tomorrow morning... But hey, at least the snow WAS gone for awhile :D Three of four watermelons are up, 239 might be too old to sprout, but still waiting. Some of the eatable maters are up too. Also started two of my 2.9 "bucket tomato" seeds few days ago, thumbs up! Wednesday, April 16 View Page What would be better time to start the first pkn seeds than lunar eclipse? Thursday, April 24 View Page Here we go! Thursday, April 24 View Page It is tilling time, finally! Thursday, April 24 View Page Almost done... Thursday, April 24 View Page Sssssschmoking good patch soil! Thursday, April 24 View Page Sunbathing :) Thursday, April 24 View Page We want out too!!! Thursday, April 24 View Page Is it summer yet?? Friday, April 25 View Page It was nice, for a while... Sunday, April 27 View Page Hoooo-oops :) Tuesday, April 29 View Page First in the ground! Weather just don´t cooperate, been in 40s all week and rain rain rain, wind wind wind... Sunday, June 22 View Page Patch overview, everything filling up nicely. Sunday, June 22 View Page Some nice megablooms on giant tomato plants. Sunday, June 22 View Page Giant cantaloupe. Sunday, June 22 View Page LGs, 135 Jacobus on left, my own 110 on right. Sunday, June 22 View Page Tall corns got some squirrel/bunny damages... most of them still alive :) Sunday, June 22 View Page The one and only giant sunflower head sunflower that survived squirrel attack... we have about 50 squirrels around now that they got babies...this means war... Sunday, June 22 View Page 180 Menting 2013 x self @ day 6. Sunday, June 22 View Page 1526 Menting 2013 x self @ day 1. We´re going to self all our plants this year. Sunday, June 22 View Page Second 180 Menting 2013 x self @ day 2. Sunday, June 22 View Page Our first pollinated giant mater on Rüegger plant, I think 4.52 Rüegger, need to check that out... We have 4 Rüegger mater plants and they all have been one of the best ones since the seeds sprouted :) Sunday, June 22 View Page Rüegger mater plant. Sunday, June 22 View Page We are growing our giant watermelons in our in-laws. Sunday, June 22 View Page Our other giant watermelon plant. Will tell you which ones next time I post, lol. Sunday, June 22 View Page My eatable veggie garden at in-laws...weeds are trying to take it over, but I´m fighting! Have about 20 different tomato plants (thanks Sue!!!), Watermelons and melons, different kinf of cukes, corn, onions (thanks Lee!!!) garlic, sweet and hot peppers and horse radish. I did try carrots and dill too, but weeds grows faster than seedlings, so will put few rows of peas and beans there. I also have 3 giant sweet pepper plants growing, first fruits pollinated in them. We also have two squash plants and field pumpkin, all at in-alws place, so can´t take as good care of them. But hey, all of this is just for fun anyway, right??? ;) Sunday, June 22 View Page Deer are taking their share of my veggies for sure this season, but maybe when the hunting time comes, we will take our share of them ;) Wednesday, June 25 View Page Wind fence is moved to its final position, plants are really growing fast now with all the rain (3 inches in past week) and heat now. Friday, June 27 View Page Our friend Ray Theobald´s plants looking good :) Sunday, June 29 View Page Colouring old pumpkin seeds... Sunday, June 29 View Page ...to make some giant pumpkin seed jewelries :) Sunday, June 29 View Page :) Monday, June 30 View Page Patch view, filling up fast now.. Monday, June 30 View Page My "Mini-veggie-garden" along the side of the house :) Friday, July 4 View Page Happy 4th of July everyone! Monday, July 7 View Page Growing, growing... Monday, July 7 View Page From other angle... Monday, July 7 View Page 180 Menting ´13 (1632 Wallace x self) @ day 22. Monday, July 7 View Page 180 from other side. Joe is afraid this might end up looking pretty pkn, lol. Monday, July 7 View Page 1632 Menting ´13 @ day 16. Monday, July 7 View Page 1632 Menting, from another view. Monday, July 7 View Page 1526 Menting ´13 @ day 19. Monday, July 7 View Page 1526 Monday, July 7 View Page 1632 Wallace @ day 9. Monday, July 7 View Page Long gourds are running :) Monday, July 7 View Page Sitting on garden swing and enjoying the view :) Tuesday, July 8 View Page And ofcourse I meant 1623, not 1632... ;) Friday, July 11 View Page This is the weirdest thing this summer so far... shemale?? Friday, July 11 View Page Male? Female? Found hiding under big leaf on sidevine. Friday, July 11 View Page Done! She just earned a dollar by weeding around the stumps. Friday, July 11 View Page Time for a cold drink after the hard work... just need to catch it first ;) Friday, July 11 View Page View from the bedroom window :) Sunday, July 13 View Page Darn, how do we prune these?? Good that we got new ladders at spring... Tuesday, July 15 View Page Selling Giant pumpkin seed bracelets at Farmer´s market. Tuesday, July 15 View Page This is my favourite :) Wednesday, July 16 View Page 1623 Wallace Wednesday, July 16 View Page 180 Menting Wednesday, July 16 View Page Can you say orange? I love this pumpkin... Wednesday, July 16 View Page 1623 Menting Wednesday, July 16 View Page 1526 Menting Wednesday, July 16 View Page Some of the leaves getting pretty good size now... Weird how everything is growing even when we have had nites at 50F and days at 67-70F now. Getting warmer again, will see what happens then... Wednesday, July 16 View Page Tall corn starting to grow, finally... Wednesday, July 16 View Page SomeTHING ate one of the three sunflowers I had left... these are the smaller ones.. bunnies are cute but... Wednesday, July 16 View Page Fruit on 135 Jacobus,about one week old. Haven´t seen any females on my 110 yet. Next we need to take ladders and get up to the tree to do some pruning, lol. Wednesday, July 16 View Page Some of the numerous culls on our giant mater plants. Biggest tomatoes are around 3 lbs now. Sunday, July 20 View Page Patch view :) Sunday, July 20 View Page It kinda hurts to cull this kind of giant maters... so many good ones on Rüegger plants. These are from Rüegger 4.52. Sunday, July 20 View Page Making the swings for tomatoes... fabric looks familiar, Cecil and Theresa and Ray?? :D Sunday, July 20 View Page Done. Swings to support 20 best giant maters :) Sunday, July 20 View Page Here we go :) Biggest maters are around 18" cc. I think I made mistake earlier when telling the est weigh, lol. Sunday, July 20 View Page Almost all of the mater plants have the keepers chosen by now. Sunday, July 20 View Page Hibiscus and mother´s day rose are just blooming, making me happy every day :) Sunday, July 20 View Page Fruit on 135 Jacobus LG plant. Growing steadily 5" a day. Not a WR but maybe new pb :) Sunday, July 20 View Page Our 180 at day 35. Sunday, July 20 View Page Not shabby male flowers :) We have cut most of them, but still few of them left that we missed. Tuesday, July 22 View Page Growing something for eating too :) Delicious! Thursday, July 24 View Page Joe making supports for LGs. Thursday, July 24 View Page Patch view. Friday, July 25 View Page Day 40 on our 180. Saturday, July 26 View Page 135" Jacobus. Sunday, July 27 View Page Love the view :) Sunday, July 27 View Page Getting pretty full now! Sunday, July 27 View Page Our first ripe tomato from 4.52 Rüegger. We needed to cull 3rd of it earlier, had two separate fruits on one stem :( Sunday, July 27 View Page Biggest maters are now 20-21" cc. Monday, July 28 View Page 1623 Wallace @ day 30. Monday, July 28 View Page Blossom end pic of 1623 Wallace. Best I can get, can´t get closer, lol. Monday, July 28 View Page 1526 Menting @ day 40. Starting to look like a pkn now ;) Monday, July 28 View Page BE view... Monday, July 28 View Page Not pretty pkn but it makes it look even more beautifull ;) Monday, July 28 View Page LG on 135" Jacobus grew 7.5" since yesterday suddenly. Before that steadily 5-4.5" a day. It is now 64" long. Monday, July 28 View Page Getting first sets on giant cantaloupe now. This one is about 4 days old. Saturday, August 2 View Page Our LG have really slowed donw and deformed something called witch´s nose? Í´m ready to get rid of it and grew another one... need to sneak out and cut it off some stormy nite and look amazed in the morning when it is on the ground... Saturday, August 2 View Page We have patch toads living under pumpkins, ain´t they cute! Tuesday, August 5 View Page 180 Menting. Tuesday, August 5 View Page 180 Menting. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Leaves still looking good but after the cooler weather, PM hit few plants now and is spreading... Tuesday, August 5 View Page Baby of giant cantaloupe. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Cantaloupe plant. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Patch view... Wednesday, August 6 View Page Joe got new pb with LGs, 81.5" so he finally let me take it down, lol. Wednesday, August 6 View Page New one is already growing, this one in the middle is the keeper, 135" Jacobus x my own 110". Wednesday, August 6 View Page The mother of all watering systems! :D Wednesday, August 6 View Page Chili peppers starting to ripe. Wednesday, August 6 View Page Black scorpion tongue. Wednesday, August 6 View Page Growing two giant mater plants for eatable tomatoes too, but I don´t know if they can take the weigh of all fruits, lol. Wednesday, August 6 View Page Kinda difficult not to prune plants and grow only one for size when maters looks like this... Thursday, August 7 View Page 1623 Wallace @ day 40. Thursday, August 7 View Page 1623 W blossom end. Thursday, August 7 View Page 1526 @ day 50. Friday, August 8 View Page Biggest maters are 22" (on pic, my 2.9 bucket tomato seed)and 23" cc. Joe´s 2.2 is one inch ahead of mine, lol. Saturday, August 9 View Page Yesyesyes, correction.. Joe´s 5.03 tomato is the biggest one, not the 2.2... but that one is close too, lol! Tuesday, August 12 View Page Boo-hoo :( Tuesday, August 12 View Page So sad... Tuesday, August 12 View Page What do you get when you combine bad dill ring and deep rib? Yeah... Tuesday, August 12 View Page 180 Menting @ day 58, DMG, OTT 382, est 1203. Last year the 1623 Wallace blew up at same day, growing on same spot. This was 4th year in a row that we didn´t get a pkn from that spot to the scale. Maybe we need to grow some potatoes on that spot next year... Tuesday, August 12 View Page Last patch view pic this year with patch full, time to cull the plant and chop the pkn after the patch tour. Thursday, August 14 View Page Lost second pumpkin today... Two pinholes between ribs on our 1623 Menting. Crap. Thursday, August 14 View Page So 1623 Menting went down at OTT 391 / est 1279lbs at day 54. Was our best pumpkin at the moment. Always sucks to lose a pumpkin... Saturday, September 20 View Page 1597 Menting (1623 Wallace x self) 9% heavy! Got our new personal best and 2nd place at Cedarburg weigh off with our only pumpkin, what a happy day! More pics to come...