Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 19 Entries. Monday, April 13 View Page Seed starting day! Shooting for 3-4 plants this year. Seed were filed, soaked and planted. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather.   Tuesday, April 14 View Page Getting a head start on my pumpkin plant placards. Might as well put my 3d printer to work too!   Sunday, April 19 View Page Did some soil testing today. Will be interesting to see how close these results are to what MSU provides. Hopefully it’s at least directionally correct.   Sunday, April 19 View Page N test results.   Sunday, April 19 View Page K test results.   Sunday, April 19 View Page P test results.   Tuesday, April 21 View Page My 1,578 Holland dropped its seed casing today. Looking good.   Wednesday, April 22 View Page Soil test back from MSU.   Wednesday, April 22 View Page Second soil test. This one is of my garden soil the previous one was from my compost.   Tuesday, April 28 View Page Almost time to intro them to the garden. Hopefully this weekend weather permitting.   Tuesday, April 28 View Page Holland 641   Tuesday, April 28 View Page Langridge 666   Tuesday, April 28 View Page Langridge 885 (Langridge 888 replacement) roughly 1 week behind the others. Should pop any day. Seeing signs of green!   Sunday, May 3 View Page Three of my four are planted.   Wednesday, May 6 View Page My 888 Langridge finally shedded it’s seed today and it popped out with three leaves! Hopefully a sign of good luck to come!   Wednesday, May 6 View Page 888 Langridge. Three leaf clover.   Wednesday, May 6 View Page My 885 Langridge will be ready for the garden soon. The weird this is it looks like it’s missing one of it main leafs. Will be interesting to see how this one progresses.   Friday, June 19 View Page Pollination day!!! First one of the season. Worried that it won’t take since the only male flower I had bloomed a day earlier. I picked it and stored it in the refrigerator hoping it will keep. Fingers crossed.   Sunday, June 21 View Page Second pollination of the season. This one is on my 641 Holland. It was pollinated with my 888 Langridge.