Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 246 Entries. Tuesday, June 21 View Page Both plants looking great. Each one about 4 feet long. I planted them on May 28th   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Both plants looking great. Each one about 4 feet long. I planted them on May 28th   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Both plants looking great. Each one about 4 feet long. I planted them on May 28th   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Can you spot the patch? It's on the top of your screen.   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Both plants looking great each one 4 feet long. Sorry about the other pics I forgot to rotate the pics and I did not mean to enter that many. So far there looking great though.   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Sorry about the upside down pictures I posted, I did not mean to post 3 of the same pictures. I got 2 good ones, The drone one and the one that is not upside down. Next time I will try to be more careful.   Wednesday, June 22 View Page Headed to a Yankees game. Coming back tomorrow. I'm hoping my dog doesn't break in to the the patch and start digging holes everywhere.   Wednesday, June 22 View Page Headed to a Yankees game. Coming back tomorrow. I'm hoping my dog doesn't break in to the the patch and start digging holes everywhere.   Thursday, June 23 View Page New York City   Friday, June 24 View Page Plants are looking strong growing 1 foot every 2 days so 6 inches every day.   Friday, June 24 View Page Looking great!   Friday, June 24 View Page About 10 min ago I spotted 2 squash vine borei. They do not look like something to mess around with so I am going to watch my plants today. I got some bug killer stuff so wish me luck.   Friday, June 24 View Page Well today was a good and bad day. I was outside by my patch at the right time. If I wasn't out their when the squash vine Borir bugs flew in then It could of been worse. I could of never spotted them then it would of been too late because they Would of infected the plants S already. Luckily I had some very strong bug killer stuff. I sprayed the stuff onto the leaves and on the bottom of the leave too. I am almost Guaranteed they won't infect my plants because I put the bug killer stuff on them. Today was a good and bad day. Good because I spotted them at the right time and bad because I know they are here now. I'm just happy that they most likely won't infect my plants or come close to them.   Saturday, June 25 View Page Spotted an SVB . It's right above the shaded spot look closely. If there Is one there is two. This is what I didn't want to see this early in the season! I have merit 75 though maybe that will work but my season could be over very soon   Sunday, June 26 View Page Can someone please tell me if this was a squash vine bore bug? I know what they look like but im not really sure about this one. It has a little yellow and it looks like it's orange may have fated away.   Sunday, June 26 View Page Hers the other pic   Sunday, June 26 View Page Looking good, It was only a moth before. Lol, did some vine burying.   Tuesday, June 28 View Page Plants looking good. Each one about 7 feet   Wednesday, June 29 View Page   Wednesday, June 29 View Page All tilled up and ready to grow   Wednesday, June 29 View Page   Wednesday, June 29 View Page   Wednesday, June 29 View Page   Wednesday, June 29 View Page   Wednesday, June 29 View Page Cloudy day . Should be more pictures on the website online   Wednesday, June 29 View Page Watch out Bry quick severe thunderstorm   Friday, July 1 View Page See yah later. I will be back on the 16th .good luck to everyone   Saturday, July 2 View Page Just got here at 12:30 last night.   Saturday, July 2 View Page   Friday, July 8 View Page Great weather in Spain. Having some thunderstorms in the afternoon. Other then that it's been a fun one so far   Saturday, July 9 View Page This is sick this is in Barcelona   Saturday, July 16 View Page Back home and I am shocked !   Saturday, July 16 View Page   Saturday, July 16 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page Great looking 5 lobes which is really good! I am hoping it got pollinated. I just have to wait   Sunday, July 17 View Page Nice long stem   Sunday, July 17 View Page Another one. On the same plant . I really like the other pumpkin though   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page Here is another pumpkin on the other plant. I counted 4 lobes   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Sunday, July 17 View Page Buried some more today   Sunday, July 17 View Page   Monday, July 18 View Page   Monday, July 18 View Page   Monday, July 18 View Page I'm not joking about this but just 10 min ago there was a lightning strike that hit a tree about 25 feet away from my house! It was very loud. I can't imagine if it struck my plants. Then they would be on fire. The entire thing was very scary   Tuesday, July 19 View Page She's looking big and great   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Tuesday, July 19 View Page Almost there! Today I think is the day   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Tuesday, July 19 View Page I really need my plants to get bigger. I want a least a 600 pound pumpkin on at least 1 plant. I have 2 plants   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Tuesday, July 19 View Page Huge leaf   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Tuesday, July 19 View Page This leaf is about 1 inch bigger   Tuesday, July 19 View Page   Wednesday, July 20 View Page Hot Peppers doing great in there pot   Wednesday, July 20 View Page   Thursday, July 21 View Page She's on the ground when it gets to about a watermelon size woody and I will decide it she's the keeper   Thursday, July 21 View Page Here is another one on the same vine. This one as of now is not doing much.   Thursday, July 21 View Page Here is a pumpkin on the other plant. Only a three lober so I am hoping to get a good 4 lober on another pumpkin   Thursday, July 21 View Page There's the other pumpkin   Thursday, July 21 View Page The plants are from the 1517 Lancaster   Thursday, July 21 View Page Wow! It was hottttttt! It was very good though!   Saturday, July 23 View Page Well Woody and I did a lot today we moved vines from the pumpkin to make room for the pumpkin. The pumpkin has a lot of room now and I like how it's turning out.   Saturday, July 23 View Page It's looking great !   Saturday, July 23 View Page   Saturday, July 23 View Page   Saturday, July 23 View Page I am not sure if my other entries submitted before, it did not look like they did. So today Woody and I moved some vines to make room for this pumpkin. It's looking good   Saturday, July 23 View Page   Saturday, July 23 View Page   Saturday, July 23 View Page This is bad. This is a no joker. Hail is possible and wind gusts at 70 MPH. Also rain is expected to be 3-5 inches!! Now I'm worried about my plants! Really worried! Everyone in MA prepair!   Saturday, July 23 View Page I'm not even home! It's coming right down!   Saturday, July 23 View Page Starting to clear up but there is some more coming   Sunday, July 24 View Page Big growth change from yesterday   Sunday, July 24 View Page   Sunday, July 24 View Page   Sunday, July 24 View Page   Sunday, July 24 View Page   Sunday, July 24 View Page I like this technique better then just the shirt   Monday, July 25 View Page All of these came from my garden!   Monday, July 25 View Page Starting to grow   Monday, July 25 View Page   Monday, July 25 View Page   Monday, July 25 View Page Mini pumpkins doing good, also got tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers, zucchini, beans, and kale   Tuesday, July 26 View Page Now she's starting to grow   Saturday, July 30 View Page   Saturday, July 30 View Page Day 15   Sunday, July 31 View Page So here is the small hole everyone. It is smaller then it looks.   Sunday, July 31 View Page   Sunday, July 31 View Page Day 16   Monday, August 1 View Page New idea to shade the pumpkin. 4 legged table with towels on each side to make sure the sun doesn't com in, the table is very sturdy   Monday, August 1 View Page Day 17   Monday, August 1 View Page Nice and round looking like it's going to be a big one   Monday, August 1 View Page   Monday, August 1 View Page Smaller pumpkin what I did is I cut the main because there was not a lot of room at all and so we cut the main to make more room for this pumpkin.   Thursday, August 4 View Page Looking good   Thursday, August 4 View Page Going to start fertilizing today   Thursday, August 4 View Page Day 20   Thursday, August 4 View Page   Thursday, August 4 View Page Nice stem   Saturday, August 6 View Page Day 22 has not done anything for 1 week now.   Saturday, August 6 View Page Just sitting there   Saturday, August 6 View Page   Saturday, August 6 View Page   Saturday, August 6 View Page That picture is from Thursday. And as you can see the pumpkin has not done a thing. It's been abundant the past week   Sunday, August 7 View Page that urea mate is starting to settle in. Pumpkin getting big it's at day 23.   Sunday, August 7 View Page Nice dark leaves   Sunday, August 7 View Page   Sunday, August 7 View Page What are the chances of that! When I was putting the towel back on my toenail hit the pumpkin and scraped it. Hope it heals   Sunday, August 7 View Page I put a fan on the little scratch to dry it out   Wednesday, August 10 View Page Today was my first day of recorded measuring   Wednesday, August 10 View Page   Wednesday, August 10 View Page   Saturday, August 13 View Page Things are getting frustrating today. Today turned out to be a big blow. Yesterday I lost a secondary then today I lost another one due to a squash vine larva worm inside the vine was totally destroyed. Then! after the pumpkin on the main vine there was damage on the vine due to a SQUASH VINE worm. We had to make a decision. We could cut the vine off or we could keep the vine on and inject liquid seven to kill the worm. We made the decision to take it off because we though the worm was in there and if we kept it on the liquid seven may of not even killed the worm. We took the vine off and looked for the worm. No signs anywhere! so is even more frustrating because we could of kept the main vine on because there was no larva worm in there but we dident know. But we took it off. In total I lost about 6 secondary's that where on the main vine and other secondary's that just had to be pulled from serious splitting that was unknown what caused it. It could of been a squash vine larva warm but I don't think that is what caused it. It was just a cracked secondary. So 2 vines where destroyed by those damn squash vine larva worms . The main and 1 secondary'. the rest of the secondary's where on the main past the pumpkin where the larva destroyed the vine so those has to come off too then the secondary that was split. Today was he worst day yet. And this all happened on 1 plant with the big pumpkin on it.   Saturday, August 13 View Page Frustrating   Saturday, August 13 View Page Half the plant is gone just dirt   Saturday, August 13 View Page   Friday, August 26 View Page Here's a pic from Wednesday the 24th   Sunday, August 28 View Page   Sunday, August 28 View Page Day 42. Estimated weight= 420 pounds   Sunday, August 28 View Page   Sunday, August 28 View Page   Sunday, August 28 View Page   Sunday, August 28 View Page   Sunday, August 28 View Page Growing nice too   Sunday, August 28 View Page Weight around 270 for this one   Wednesday, September 7 View Page So yesterday I went over to woody's patch everything looked great a nice cloudy warm day then Today was one of the worst days I experienced. I am not joking about this. I went over to woody's patch today then I recognized something that was not right. Woody then told me. I lost my big pumpkin today. When I heard that come out of his mouth I was so disappointed! I just could not believe it! He then brought his pumpkin to a scale estimated around 1985. All his pumpkins that he has grown these years have all gone heavy and he was going to bring it to the tops field fair September 30th he still had a lot of time to get to at least 2,130 plus all his pumpkins that he grown over these incredible years have gone heavy so he possibly could have had a world record. This all sucks I was looking to see that big a** pumpkin at the fair. I'm disappointed and he is too. I wish him good luck with his other pumpkin that he has. Today sucked. *he gave me permission to tell everyone this*   Friday, September 9 View Page This is what happens when and idiot like me tries to hop a fence to try to get to my pumpkin faster   Saturday, September 10 View Page Now I'm getting pumped. A few days ago on September 5th I had 279 for the OTT. today I measured again with woody and I got 298. So the total weight on the GPC chart is 598 pounds. OH and by the way Bry I'm catching up to you so you better get your pumpkin to start growing again or I'm gonna be ahead of you. Well I may not get ahead of you but I may be close.   Saturday, September 10 View Page 600 pounds of pure pumpkin   Saturday, September 10 View Page Nice sunset. Getting very exited for weigh off only 20 days away September 30th   Saturday, September 10 View Page   Sunday, September 11 View Page Made a little mistake estimated weight of pumpkin is 560 I added up the inches wrong before   Monday, September 12 View Page These pumpkins are going to be warm on toasty tonight. Down to 50   Thursday, September 22 View Page Nice views today of my patch . More coming   Thursday, September 22 View Page   Thursday, September 29 View Page   Thursday, September 29 View Page   Thursday, September 29 View Page   Thursday, September 29 View Page   Thursday, September 29 View Page   Sunday, October 2 View Page Great night I'm Friday I was very proud on what I got. I got one more pumpkin that's going to Frerichs next weekend . I'm already looking forward to next year. I saw a lot of big pumpkin and when I saw them I was like pulled right in I want to grow another big one maybe I'll set a goal for 800 pounds. More pics coming soon   Thursday, October 6 View Page I'm ready for Saturday getting this bad boy loaded up. If anyone's in Florida stay safe.   Thursday, October 6 View Page   Thursday, October 6 View Page   Thursday, October 6 View Page   Thursday, October 6 View Page Very nasty storm!   Saturday, October 8 View Page I'm off for Frerichs   Saturday, October 8 View Page Awesome day today   Saturday, October 8 View Page Had so many people looking at the pumpkin when we where on the highway. They where taking pictures,waving and just looking   Saturday, October 8 View Page So topsfield weight 539.5 pounds RI weight 514 pounds I am very happy the one that I took to RI at Frerichs went heavy it was taping around 450 and I got 514 very happy on what I got especially because I got 2 pumpkins in the 500 zone!   Monday, October 10 View Page You gotta be KIDDING ME . Frost in October really ? My pumpkins may start to die early uhh that's sucks I wanted to have both until Halloween at least   Friday, October 21 View Page I am having very severe thunderstorms right now it's very dangerous. I had at least a dozen lighting bolts hit my house. I'm not joking about this. They almost hit my pumpkins. I'm scared. Driveway is flooding and streets are flouding.   Friday, October 21 View Page It's like a war zone   Friday, October 21 View Page SEVERE UPDATE. A huge lighting bolt hit my house. It knocked the power out. Shook my bed and shattered the house. I'm nervous for a reason. Stay safe everyone in MA   Saturday, October 22 View Page Pumpkin update. So today I was going to get all the seeds out of the two pumpkins. One pumpkin was good one was bad. If you look inside you will notice this soup like stuff inside. On the side of the pumpkin it got cut up about 2 weeks ago. That is what caused the soupy stuff inside. Well this one will not be carved. Te cut from 2 weeks ago went all the way in so that is what caused it   Saturday, October 22 View Page Yay I got MU seeds and I'm still not done   Saturday, October 22 View Page It's amazing how when you get a pumpkin that's soupy inside and how you only get around 30 seeds. That happend to me and I don't know where the other seeds went maybe they drowned in the soup. The smell is not bad at this point but it may get worse. I'm carving the one on the right tonight. The one on the left covered is the soupy one. I'm suppose to be cold this week and this is the only weekend I can carve them with relatives. I'm going to try to wait out the soupy one until Halloween. If it stays good until Halloween I will be happy because then I will have a pumpkin that's carved and one that's not. I was going to carve both but I can't it will then rot fast and smell worse. Hi cut both open because I was gonn carve carve two of them but I can't. I'm a little dissapointed on the seed count on the bad pumpkin. I'm very happy with the seed count on the good one I got like 400 seeds out.   Saturday, October 22 View Page I got 4 racks of these bad boys. These seeds are only seeds out from the good pumpkin. Soupy ones still need to go in later   Sunday, October 23 View Page One pumpkin= seeds   Sunday, October 23 View Page I'm soooo ready   Sunday, October 23 View Page Multiple holes have been drilled to get all soup outta there   Sunday, October 23 View Page   Wednesday, October 26 View Page Did some expanding this afternoon the dirt it coming al me good. Almost ready I need to send sample in in next 2 weeks hopefully sooner and finish it too   Wednesday, October 26 View Page This weekend I will finish the soil   Wednesday, October 26 View Page Here the carved pumpkin.   Wednesday, October 26 View Page Here's the soupy one. I think it will last until Halloween. It's looking good and significant change in color   Wednesday, October 26 View Page Seeds from 514 pumpkin   Saturday, October 29 View Page I had 2 bags full of four seeds in each. And look! They are popping. Thanks Bry your idea DID work,i am going to try the cooler way I think that way May work too   Saturday, October 29 View Page I found out this morning that they stared getting roots   Saturday, October 29 View Page This is my setup. I put a germinating mat on the bottom of the cooler. I then put the seeds that where sprouting in some pots on the heater. I did not have an old window so I used this old fishtank to put on top and it's working. I set the temp at 84 so every time it goes above 84 the germination pad will shit off. Every time it goes below it will turn back on. The temp on the screen on the right says. 16. It's not really at 16 it just screws up when I take a pic I don't know why but everything is working   Saturday, October 29 View Page   Saturday, October 29 View Page Once the plants get bigger I will plant them in bigger pots. And I'm going to try to germinate one seed or two with kelp and this promix later in a pot   Sunday, October 30 View Page There ready to grow   Sunday, October 30 View Page Today was the day. I wanted it to last until Halloween tommorow but it did not. At least I have 1. I was very proud of that pumpkin I did a good job this year with both. Next year will be a big year   Sunday, October 30 View Page Here is the germinating setup   Tuesday, November 1 View Page There they are. My own seeds, yay   Wednesday, November 2 View Page These plants where not looking there best yesterday but know there really looking good   Thursday, November 3 View Page I'm a pro at these machines   Thursday, November 3 View Page Got it tuned up last week   Saturday, November 5 View Page Got lots of digging done today   Sunday, November 6 View Page Can anyone figure out what I just got approval for!! Damn I'm exited, look at the white string. I will be expanding out all the way to there! And there's more. Look for more pics on diary!   Sunday, November 6 View Page In this pic I will be expanding a little wider. I got a hill to the left so I can only go that far but it's more then you think, I'm so exited for next year   Sunday, November 6 View Page Sunset is insane   Sunday, November 6 View Page   Sunday, November 6 View Page Another expanding pic, I been working on it all day and I finished up the digging now I need to dig the part where I'm expanding   Sunday, November 6 View Page   Sunday, November 6 View Page   Sunday, November 6 View Page It's gonna be big!   Sunday, November 6 View Page I even got soil ready for soil test. Tommorow it will be sent in   Sunday, November 6 View Page Oh yea I'm expanding major on getting it wider   Sunday, November 6 View Page   Sunday, November 6 View Page I will be moving the fence back towards the house   Tuesday, November 8 View Page For the past 5 days I've been in advanced manufacturing at school. Every week I do a shop that I choose. We swap 1 week of academics then a shop that I choose. So academics every other week. Everyone chooses 8 shops. The teacher has been out 3 days already and The entire class was working on a project. All we've been doing is going on our iPads. Today is the last day and he is out. I could of been working on my garden the past 3 days lol. It's sucks but what can u do about it.   Saturday, November 12 View Page   Saturday, November 12 View Page   Saturday, November 12 View Page   Sunday, November 13 View Page Which pot should I plant my Giant tomato seeds in?   Sunday, November 13 View Page New setup   Sunday, November 13 View Page   Sunday, November 13 View Page I did not plant the tomatoe seeds yet I am just getting the soil warmed up in the pots   Monday, November 14 View Page Very bright super moon, not as big as I thought though   Thursday, November 17 View Page Here's a pic of me in the newspaper a few weeks bottom frame is another newspaper that they put out after the fair. The one on the top they published before the fair. Oh and it should be 539.5. Pounds. I had a great time growing this year and I hope that continues next year.   Saturday, November 19 View Page Indoor growing setup   Saturday, November 19 View Page   Sunday, November 20 View Page This makes me happy :)   Monday, November 28 View Page Soil test results, I have no clue how soil works so I need to look at it more   Monday, November 28 View Page I think they messed up on potassium. I don't think it should be at zero for pumpkins but I don't know. I have it at 248, on a different sheet of paper it says it should be anywhere from 100 to 160   Sunday, December 11 View Page Roots of 539.5   Sunday, December 11 View Page 539.5 plant   Sunday, December 11 View Page   Monday, December 12 View Page   Monday, December 12 View Page   Monday, December 12 View Page   Wednesday, December 14 View Page Nothing is working out for me I got 3 giant tomato plants and they are not growing just wilting every day, They sprouted around 22 days ago, I'm out I will possibly grow some in the summer, my pumpkin seeds won't germinate only 1 out if the 30 that I tried germinated very frustrating   Thursday, December 15 View Page Growing set up   Thursday, December 15 View Page   Thursday, December 15 View Page   Friday, December 16 View Page I found this big light, it gets very hot like VERY VERY hot! I don't think I am going to use it because it just gets too hot, it would be a great light for germinating seeds but I'm not sure, the temp 90! And that's way to high, I'm going to shut it off because it's way too dangerous even if I put it father away from the cooler it will still go up to 90, too dangerous of a light   Friday, December 16 View Page Way to dangerous up to 100 now,   Friday, December 16 View Page I threw it out, very dangerous luckily it dident start a fire   Friday, December 16 View Page Germination mat almost got too hot, luckily I turned the light off,   Sunday, December 18 View Page 3.71 starting to pick up some nice speed, I would say by January 1st it will be really growing fast   Sunday, December 18 View Page 5.05 not doing bad   Sunday, December 18 View Page 3.32 just sprouted, my main focus is on the 3.71 borgers,   Sunday, December 18 View Page Here's a picture of the one and only 539.5   Sunday, December 18 View Page Strongest plant so far in the lineup. Once again main focus 3.71   Sunday, December 18 View Page   Sunday, December 18 View Page Got some nice kale and lettuce   Sunday, December 18 View Page Lettuce just starting to appear, I've got two lettuce pots and two kale   Tuesday, December 20 View Page I have gotten two seeds on my 539.5 to form roots and two on my 514   Tuesday, December 20 View Page So my seeds in a bag that I tried to germinate about a week ago sprouted, why am I getting the luck now and not before, these seeds are from just the 514   Tuesday, December 20 View Page So here's the update so far-- I've gotten 4, 514 to germinate and 3 539.5 to germinate, beginners luck I guess.   Tuesday, December 20 View Page So The seeds from about a week ago that had roots from them smelled like peanut butter so I just threw them aside. literally threw them aside, I wonder if I throw seeds that are in a bag for now on then thy will germinate hmm maybe ok do that again   Tuesday, December 20 View Page I think I will stick with this way   Saturday, December 24 View Page I have a major issue going on right now. I just checked my seeds and I lifted one out of the soil and the root that was about an inch was completely ROTTED, I checked the rest that had roots and they where all rotted!! I'm worried because I had bugs flying around and they may be the issue, I'm worried all my other plants have major damage please email me for any advice   Sunday, December 25 View Page Merry Christmas ! I got a growing tent, a top quality fan and a awesome growing light   Sunday, December 25 View Page This is where the fan will be going   Monday, December 26 View Page I'm left with my 371 borgors and 5.05 Reinhard   Tuesday, December 27 View Page Great day snowboarding at Mount Sunapee NH!   Tuesday, December 27 View Page