Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 26 Entries. Wednesday, August 6 View Page Long gourds...crazy things. They're such a low priority that by the time I get to them, it's dark and I need to use my headlamp in order to see well enough to pollinate them. I must look like a complete nut at the top of that extension ladder. Wednesday, August 6 View Page Something new for me this year...fuzzy gourds. Kind of a waste of garden space really. Wednesday, August 6 View Page The Three Sisters - 727 Neily '07, 915 Neily '05 and 935 '05 Neily Wednesday, August 6 View Page Offspring of 836 Neily '06 squash Thursday, August 14 View Page Cool and wet the past few days here in Paradise. The long gourd plants need trimming almost daily. I'll need to attach my hedge trimmer to a 10 ft pole, I guess. Thursday, August 14 View Page These are plants grown from 101.5" George Manuel 2005 seeds. The longest is just over 4'. They appear to be thin at the base of the fruit where the seed cavity normally is. I hear that this is a good thing?? Thursday, August 14 View Page I managed to cover my Caroline Cross watermelon with a small greenhouse last week without my wife noticing...until it was already up. Funny how she didn't see this as a priority...I took her out to dinner and she quickly forgot about it. Thursday, August 14 View Page Here's a sure fire way to keep the wife from bothering you while you're in the patch. Show her the bear tracks that just happen to be between the pumpkins and the blueberry patch just 20 feet away. I just hope the guy that left these tracks doesn't have a taste for pumpkins...or me. Thursday, August 14 View Page Sweety did allow me to put up another greenhouse this year to grow more bedding plants. Now I need to work on her for a new JD tractor. Thursday, August 14 View Page Bedding plant season is pretty short and then the greenhouses are vacant for the remainder of the year, except for this year... Thursday, August 14 View Page The floor of the greenhouse was the only level spot on the property...plus I won't end up with a crop circle on my lawn. Thursday, August 14 View Page Oh yeah...pumpkins... The Three Sisters Thursday, August 14 View Page One of the chubbiest of the three... Sunday, August 24 View Page The 3 Sisters - front to back: 727 Neily-07; 915 Neily-05; 935 Neily-05. Sunday, August 24 View Page Maybe you could string a few of these togther and make a raft, Transplant?? Sunday, September 14 View Page The 3 Sisters - still intact despite all the rain we have had here in the Valley Tuesday, September 16 View Page It's getting tougher to get the kids to pose with their Dad's pumpkins these days. Friends and video games seem to attract more of their attention. Sunday, September 21 View Page Bridgetown's Ciderfest parade was Saturday. The kids and I enterd a float. Nice hat, huh? Sunday, September 21 View Page The rear end of this mobile spectacle. Monday, September 22 View Page Sweety finally let me buy a new tractor. The loader is rated to lift 1200 lbs. I wonder if I will ever be able to test this?? Sunday, October 5 View Page The Three Sisters prior to loading for the Windsor Pumpkin Weigh-off Sunday, October 5 View Page Finally!! A thousand pound plus pumpkin grown in Paradise, Nova Scotia. It's been a long time coming. Thursday, October 30 View Page I let Transplant beat me this year in the Regatta. I felt so sorry for him when I heard that his largest pumpkin was so small that it fit in the back of his wife's hatchback...on a quilt no doubt. Thursday, October 30 View Page I think Chip has his goggles on a bit too tight there... Thursday, October 30 View Page What do you mean there's a seed left in the back??? Thursday, October 30 View Page Smile or I'll eat you.