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Monday, April 20, 2026 ww5flute North Vancouver, BC Canada

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It's been a while since I've posted in my diary here. But have committed to keeping things updated for the 2026 season!

Was very excited to come in 19th for Master Gardener in 2025 and hope to better my score for 2026.

My lineup this year is to do a giant squash in my main patch, two pumpkins in my secondary patches, a long gourd (broke the BC record last year with a 129.5" and raised my trellis this year to try and break my own record), bushel gourd, field pumpkin, marrow and giant tomato - that'll give me a couple of redundancies in case something fails.

For seeds, I have:
Pumpkin:
1933.5 Caspers 2024
2387 Daletas 2024
1243 Pelletier 2025 (2610.3 Petrelli 2023 x self)

Squash
1592 Tobeck 2023
2030 Tobeck 2021
434 Pelletier 2025 (1592 Tobeck 2023 x 1415 Jolivette 2024)

Long Gourd
152.5 Yohe 2021
129.5 Pelletier 2025 (150 Faust 2024 x sib)

Bushel Gourd
219 Pelletier 2019

Field Pumpkin
120 Pelletier 2025

Marrow
162.5 Whitty DMG 2025
69 Whitty 2025
82 Pelletier 2025

Tomato
10.2 Jolivette 2024
7.19 Tobeck 2021
7.69 Clayton 2023
8.36 Strickler 22021

Happy to have a 100% germination this year. Off we go!
 



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