Monday, January 1
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Our field pumpkin was just shy of 150 pounds but still 8th biggest grown this season
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Monday, January 1
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Carved this one first week of November and it stuck around looking good till thanksgiving with the cold temperatures
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Monday, January 1
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Even with a couple inches of snow on Halloween we still had 500 trick or treaters. Here’s part of the cases of candy being unloaded for the little goblins.
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Monday, January 1
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Finally got one of the molds to work on the flat bottom of a 80 pound field pumpkin. People were absolutely perplexed by it. It was definitely the most talked about decoration
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Monday, February 19
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The Illinois seed auction will be this Saturday evening. The details will be posted soon. We have amazing seeds including some great ones from the past. These 146.5 Young watermelon seeds from 2015 have got to be near impossible to find at this point. They will also be up for auction as well.
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Thursday, February 22
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This is lot number 7 “retro mega lot” up for bids this Saturday evening—Illinois seed auction. This one lot has over 50 seeds from years 2010 to 2018. Check out all these past greats all in one lot. Details are posted
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Thursday, June 13
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The 2 plants on the A side. Close is 2342 Stelts and far is 1849.5 Adkins. Added a couple hundred sq ft this year
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Thursday, June 13
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2342 x 1849 pollinated this AM
1849 x 2342 pollinated June 8th
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Thursday, June 13
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2465.5 Sperry on the B side. Pollination tomorrow
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Saturday, June 29
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The 1849.5 Adkins x2342 Stelts DAP20. No burn problem this year. 130 lbs. 20 more than I average at this point
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Wednesday, July 3
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2342 Stelts x 1849.5 Adkins DAP 20 =173 pounds. Expectations blown away. Weather has been better than past few years. Still got a tracked EF0 tornado less than a mile from our house last week. Wheaton has had several tornados in the past few years now. Hopefully that’s it for this year
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Saturday, July 6
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1849.5 Adkins DAP 30=430 pounds
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Tuesday, July 9
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2465 Sperry x 2342 Stelts set at 20 feet. DAP 20 -OTT is 191 so 165 pounds. The larger growing area and better fertilizing seems to be a good thing so far. Although I just got the drip tape in last week so I have been hand water and fertilizing from a water can up till that point
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Saturday, July 13
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2342 Stelts DAP 30 at 291OTT= 570 pounds just about 40 pounds a day average. That’s a record for my patch this early.
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