Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 46 Entries. Saturday, April 3 View Page Here is a rainbow in OHIO for Christy. Sunday, April 11 View Page I built a big greenhouse for my fair plants but lots of early severe storms tore it up bad. So I put two smaller hoop houses on instead. Sunday, April 18 View Page xxx Welty in the back and 167 Welty nearest to the camera Friday, April 23 View Page 1st tilling of '010. Sunday, April 25 View Page Filed, Soaked and planted the: 1236 Harp, 1375 Liggett, 1177* Haist and 785* Vincent. I forgot to start my 980 so hopefully I do that soon. DOH! Thanks to Nick and Christy, Doc, Karl and John for the seeds! Tuesday, April 27 View Page I started the 980 Klinker '09 (1161 Rodonis x 904 Stelts) for competition. Wednesday, April 28 View Page 1236 Harp, 1375 Liggett, 1177* Haist and 785* Vincent are all up! The plants go out Sunday. Sunday, May 9 View Page 1236 Harp Sunday, May 9 View Page 1375 Liggett Sunday, May 9 View Page 1177* Haist Sunday, May 9 View Page 785* Vincent literally dropped dead and I have no idea why. If I can get another I will start it and get it in, otherwise I will plant two 980's. Monday, May 17 View Page Could be the worse spring ever... State Fair greenhouse gets shreded by continuous winds, 785* Vincent falls over dead, state fair plants showing signs of 2,4-D damage and nothing but rain and 50's for almost 2 weeks... Sunday, May 23 View Page 1st one in the pool for '010. Thursday, May 27 View Page 1177* Haist fell over dead. Planted a backup 980 Klinker in its place. 523* Crosby is my last hope for green and its not doing anything... Sunday, May 30 View Page I helped out at my buddies farm and had the honor of pulling hay wagons all day, it was rough in a newer 3/4 ton Chevy Diesel. Sunday, May 30 View Page Forgot the photo. Derp. Thursday, June 3 View Page 1236 Harp in the back and 980 #2 (Roger's 980 :-) ) in the front. Thursday, June 3 View Page 1375 Liggett in the back. Nothing in the front, all my squash bought the farm (785* Vincent, 1177* Haist, 523* Crosby). :-( I guess I won't grow green in '010. Thursday, June 3 View Page 980 Klinker #1 Thursday, June 3 View Page 167 Welty. Started as a fair plant and most likely will become an early fall plant. Thursday, June 3 View Page xxx Welty. Still a fair plant. Thursday, June 3 View Page Best thing in the patch, sweet corn! Thursday, June 3 View Page From left to right: sweet corn, 1375 liggett, 1236 Harp (front), 980 Klinker #2 (back), xxx Welty (front), 167 Welty back. Wednesday, June 9 View Page Removed the huts from the 1375 and 1236. The 1375 is HUGE, could be something special. Thursday, June 10 View Page xxx welty x 167 welty Thursday, June 17 View Page xxx Welty x 167 Welty Wednesday, June 23 View Page 1st one in the pool for '010. Friday, June 25 View Page 167 x xxx welty Sunday, June 27 View Page Day 10.5 xxx welty x 167 welty. 27" Tuesday, June 29 View Page Trimmed up the xxx and 167 welty then watered (overhead) with some cal and triple 10. Friday, July 2 View Page D15 36" Tuesday, July 6 View Page xxx welty x 1375 Liggett Tuesday, July 6 View Page Day 11.5 33" 167 Welty. Day 19.5 40" xxx Welty probably an abort... Thursday, July 8 View Page Cut off the xxx welty x 167 welty fruit, started to rot. It was about 40" Saturday, July 10 View Page Day 15.5 54" on the 167 Welty. So far nothing else will set on the xxx welty. Sunday, July 11 View Page 167 Welty Day 16. Monday, July 12 View Page subdue, cleary's watered in with some seacrop 16. Wednesday, July 14 View Page 1375 Liggett x 1236 Harp. Thursday, July 15 View Page 167 Welty Day 20 72" Monday, July 19 View Page Day 24.5 76" Thinking its going to abort. Also showing signs of more 2-4-D damage. Anyone want to help me kick my neighbors a$$?? Monday, July 19 View Page 1236 Harp x OPEN. Totally missed it, maybe the bees did their job.. Tuesday, July 20 View Page 980.5 Klinker x 1375 Liggett Wednesday, July 21 View Page 1375 x open. Thursday, July 22 View Page My July 14th pollination of the 1375 x 1236 aborted. Tuesday, August 10 View Page 1236 Harp x OPEN. After nothing would set I let the bees do their thing. Not 100% sure on the pollination date. I'm declaring today Day 20. LOL The sun bleached out the photo, nothing is wrong with the pumpkin, it is a light yellow color. Cir 76. SS 59. SB 57. OTT 192. EST 160 lbs Monday, November 15 View Page Thanks to my buddy Andy for hooking me up with all the manure I could transport and to Roger for letting me borrow his dump trailer. I applied approximately 6 yards of completely composted cattle manure and 27 yards of semi broken down cow manure to the patch. For 2011 I will be going with much larger plants 40 long x 30 wide and only 3 fall plants.