Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 11 Entries. Sunday, April 13 View Page Hey everyone,Iam Travis from Ontario, i am 17 and looking forward to growing pumpkins this year and i am giving giant watermelons a try too. Best of luck to you all this year, I cant wait to start all the hard work. Here is a picture of a 8 by 10 greenhouse i just recently built, Its heated from a hot water furnace with hoses going through it on the floor, Sunday, April 13 View Page heres the inside Monday, April 14 View Page Giant pumpkins planted today, maybe a few days early this year but the weather should be nice by the time they are ready to go in the mini greenhouses in the patch Sunday, April 20 View Page giant watermelons starting to come up today, so are the pumpkins, Pumpkins are- 1081 R Wentzell 05, 995.5 Vincent McGill**squash, and the rest of the Vincent McGill pumpkins from 07. 886 Bhaskaran and 649 Spada. Its a total of about 14 plants, i hope to have 8- 10 strong healthy plants to tend to and go from there. The first watermelons up were the 195 Bhaskaran Thursday, May 8 View Page Pumpkins are all close to going out to the shelters in the patch, hopin buy sun-tuesday depending on what the weather looks like. The 886 Bhaskaran and 966.9 are the best plants, Both are rapid growers and are 4 times the size of the rest, they need to go out asap, the best plants iv ever started, hopefully they continue, the 649 spada is not far behind, it is looking good and has a differnt leaf pattern from the rest with 2 leaves branching from it, ( nvr seen before could be common for all i know) Deff unique and cant wait to see the vines start coming, The giant watermelons are doing good to getting there 4th leaf. Saturday, September 6 View Page had no luck with pumpkins this year i lost it around the 200lb mark, heres my best watermelon, 195 bhaskaran x 183.5 bhaskaran , ott- 166 it increased 10" ott in 5 days, and a steady 3" in circumference every 5 days to, growing really wide, hope it holds up , Saturday, September 6 View Page pic Saturday, September 6 View Page pic Saturday, September 6 View Page melon Saturday, September 13 View Page took a quick measurement today in the rain, cir- 6,6" 4" increase again in a week, hope the melon holds up a bit longer, Monday, September 15 View Page ott 171