Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 19 Entries. Monday, May 17 View Page Raining so have not got the garden plowed Got my good seed started and should be coming up any day now Going to plant some pie pumpkins as well Thursday, June 3 View Page Got a plant in today. Rain has delayed transplant from pot to plot. Seed origin is seed pack from Lowes last spring Monday, June 14 View Page Diary has been slow this year but I can tell you am I way behind everyone else. Got two plants in the ground. One of them is a funny growing plant from the pumpkin I grew last year. Planted it to see what happens and as a backup incase the deer decide to destroy my better plant. Luckily the deer population has taken a tremendous nosedive. Tuesday, June 29 View Page My 2010 plant Monday, July 12 View Page Rain, finally. Moderate drought in NC mountains Saturday, July 17 View Page Got some fruit setting now. Will post some pics if I can get them. Deer have damaged the plant but it has recovered. I guess a few deer did survive the hunting seasons Monday, July 19 View Page Any problems with this leaf? Tuesday, July 20 View Page 1st cull of the year 7/19/10 3 feet from the stump Friday, July 30 View Page Been culling pumpkins but my vines are not that long due to the drought we are in. I think this weekend I'm gonna pick em all but two but maybe I will wait for 14' vines. Yeah they are short Thursday, August 5 View Page Two finalists set. Vines ended Going to be out of town and when I get back I will keep one and cull one. Tuesday, August 10 View Page There can be only one. Had two females left and culled the smaller one as I got back from a trip yesterday. It was growing parallel tight against the vine anyway. It weighed 8 pounds on my fishing scale. The bigger one is in a much better growing position on the vine and measured 25 inches across the fattest part of the pumpkin this morning. Hope to take pics this evening. Very hot here in the mountains. Sunday, August 15 View Page My pumpkin for this year Plenty of rain today Monday, August 16 View Page 35.5 inches up and over the fattest part of the pumpkin Thats roughly 10 inches since I measured the same area on Aug 10. The recent rain has helped! Monday, August 23 View Page Disease has infected my plant I'm afraid. Cut off the diseased vines and will see what happens. Ground has been wet for a week. Also cucumbers have gotten diseased as well Wednesday, August 25 View Page Cut off one side vine from the main plant. Part of it was still alive and has produce a female fruit that is growing. So I technically have 2 separate plants as of today Friday, August 27 View Page My 2010 pumpkin 8/27/10 Saturday, September 25 View Page Personal best watermelon- 23 pounds Bonnie yellow watermelon Sunday, October 31 View Page Season over. Just brought my pumpkin out of the garden. Will get a picture today. Its off of some 2 year old store bought seed I had so nothing special but still a personal best! Friday, November 5 View Page This years pumpkin