Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 72 Entries. Sunday, August 28 View Page 168.7 B DAP 20 140 inches OTT   Monday, August 29 View Page 168.7 A DAP 20 162 inches   Friday, September 2 View Page 168.7 B DAP 25 167 inches OTT   Saturday, September 3 View Page 168.7 A DAP 25 193 inches OTT Hoping this one don't split!   Wednesday, September 7 View Page 168.7 B DAP 30 184 Inches OTT.   Thursday, September 8 View Page 168.7 A DAP 30 213 inches OTT. I really hope this one don't split on me now lol.   Friday, September 9 View Page Well I've been in this game long enough now to know this probably won't last and mother nature is doing her worst too so I'm going to enjoy this ride for as long as I can.........so a little extra update today for Brad. DAP 31 the 168.7 A tapes 215.5 inches, I'm sure Brad knows what the estimated weight of that is ;) 'come on you beauty'   Saturday, September 10 View Page And on DAP 32 were up to 118.5 inches so I guess this one's for my good friend John. If only the weigh off was today..... but its not, so its shit or bust!   Saturday, September 10 View Page 218.5 inches I meant, she's just starting to ripen   Monday, September 12 View Page 168.7 B at DAP 35 tapes 195 inches OTT   Tuesday, September 13 View Page 168.7 A DAP 35 226 inches OTT Still sound for now which is more than can be said for the marrows. Will be some photos of some split marrows over the next few days.... quite a few!   Saturday, September 17 View Page 168.7 B DAP 40 tapes 202 inches OTT   Sunday, September 18 View Page 168.7 A at DAP 40 tapes 231 inches OTT   Wednesday, September 21 View Page 168.7 B DAP 43 OTT now 235.5 inches. Last OTT from the patch.   Wednesday, September 21 View Page This morning I found this tiny crack at the blossom so I immediately cut her off of the vine. As far as I can see the crack does not yet penetrate in to the cavity but obviously it would have done before long had I have left her on the vine. I have no option now but to take her to malvern tomorrow where there is no category for her just to get an official weight which is gutting as I wanted to weigh her in Southampton as a possible WR contender and GPC first place but that won't happen now. Provided the split doesn't progress (it shouldn't now she's cut) the best I can hope for is to persuade Guinness to recognise fp's as a WR (assuming she doesn't weigh mega light) she's estimated at 270 lbs.   Wednesday, September 21 View Page A close up, I'm not going to powder her up as weighing is tomorrow and don't want it to appear like I'm trying to hide anything.   Wednesday, September 21 View Page 3 above should have been 168.7 A (obviously)   Thursday, September 22 View Page DAP 45 on my 168.7 B taping 206.5 inches OTT. 45 days and still green!   Thursday, September 22 View Page And the picture   Thursday, September 22 View Page And the picture (again)   Saturday, September 24 View Page After 18 years of being together me and Mel finally got married today, love you forever babe xx   Tuesday, September 27 View Page We had a good weekend at Malvern last weekend, after a difficult year with the marrows losing 9 of 12 to splits I managed to 'restore order' and bench this one which weighed 75.8 kg or 167.11 lbs and was grown off vinces 256 WR from last year. Thanks for the seed vince.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page Luke was as happy as I was, I ad ya this year vince!   Tuesday, September 27 View Page Just about managed 2nd in the heaviest cucumber with one about 19 lbs. Not sure what went wrong with them this year but I've had better.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page And sixth place for the longest cucumber which was about 32 inches.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page The 168.7 A pumpkin loaded ready for the trip   Tuesday, September 27 View Page The crack did grow a little more after she was cut, I was just thankful I got there in time! I think if she'd been left for a few more hours then she'd have been done!   Tuesday, September 27 View Page The 168.7 A on the scale   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 121.6 kg or 268.082 lbs   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 Baggs 22 WR field pumpkin!   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 WR   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 WR   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 WR   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 WR   Tuesday, September 27 View Page 268 WR and me with the 'marrow king' Vince.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page With Mr 'long cucumber' sebastian   Tuesday, September 27 View Page And with clive   Tuesday, September 27 View Page And finally with luke and Ellie.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page Back in the patch the 168.7 B 'little sister' is still moving along slowly. She's now taping 210 inches OTT and hopefully going to make it to one of our GPC weigh ins.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page And a look at the plant   Saturday, October 1 View Page Weighed a marrow at Wargrave nursery weigh off this afternoon which tied with my personal best of 200.6 lbs. Still marrow number 2 for me over the 200 lb barrier and I'm happy. 200.6 Baggs 22 (201 Baggs DMG X 256 SJodin)   Saturday, October 1 View Page A nice solid beast of a marrow, one I'll grow next year. Once again thank you to Curtis and his weigh off team for hosting us, very well organised weigh off as usual.   Tuesday, October 4 View Page Proof that marrow growing requires patience!   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 2   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 3   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 4   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 5   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 6   Tuesday, October 4 View Page 7, this one is solid apart from a blossum crack. From 256 SJodin seed.   Friday, October 7 View Page So with the weigh off tomorrow my last pictures from the patch. The 168.7 'little sister' is taping 211 inches OTT and in no hurry to turn. I actually cut her off the vine when she just passed the 7 week since DAP mark as growth was minimal and we've had some heavy rains so I wasnt prepared to take the risk of losing her to a big ugly BES. Picture taken a week ago so she's oranged up a little since.   Friday, October 7 View Page And my last remaining sound marrow was removed last week also as I was nursing a massive dill ring. Im not sure it'll be enough, I'm 50/50 on it but the hope is to finally throw that big fat monkey off of my shoulder by the name of the 206.5 Brad Wursten! He's been there long enough and outstayed his welcome lol   Sunday, October 9 View Page Well what a day we had at sunnyfields yesterday, I grew one AG plant for fun this year. The 791 ressel, thank you for the seed patrick!. The plan was to grow for orange, it was a nice colour but not the shiny orange I was hoping for however a nice pumpkin none the less which placed third so I was very happy with that.   Sunday, October 9 View Page Another photo   Sunday, October 9 View Page Another photo   Sunday, October 9 View Page The other photo hopefully   Sunday, October 9 View Page The 'little sister' became the 218.3 Baggs 22   Sunday, October 9 View Page With Ian and stewie   Sunday, October 9 View Page Luke and My beastie   Sunday, October 9 View Page Proud moment.   Monday, October 10 View Page Apologies having issues posting entries this picture goes with one of the above   Monday, October 10 View Page And then this one   Monday, October 10 View Page Another   Monday, October 10 View Page Another   Monday, October 10 View Page And one more. Not quite a world record but I will get there.   Saturday, October 15 View Page Special request for John who wanted to see her when she had fully turned, she's been working on her color ever since she was cut and now looks beautiful.   Saturday, October 15 View Page But I can't say the same for the under side. I knew she wouldn't keep for too long as she was cut before she had properly cured, much the same happened to my 220 uow marrow from 2018. So not knowing what was going on inside I had to cut her open to remove the seeds.   Saturday, October 15 View Page The inside was perfectly healthy   Saturday, October 15 View Page 268 inside   Saturday, October 15 View Page A look at the blossum from the inside, and yes there are seeds!!   Saturday, October 15 View Page Time to say goodbye and send her back where she came from.   Saturday, November 12 View Page After a tough year with splits I only seeded my best two marrows and the two field pumpkins, First germination teat wasn't as I'd hoped. 200.6 M - 0/4 235.9 M - 3/3 268 F.P - 1/4 218.3 F.P - 2/4 no idea why the 200.6 marrows failed as the seeds appear strong, quite disappointing. The 235.9 marrow seeds germinated fine. I was suspicious about the field pumpkin seeds as they appear rather thin now that they have dried out. I'm going to try another batch.   Wednesday, November 23 View Page So happy