Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 14 Entries. Monday, January 1 View Page Our field pumpkin was just shy of 150 pounds but still 8th biggest grown this season   Monday, January 1 View Page Carved this one first week of November and it stuck around looking good till thanksgiving with the cold temperatures   Monday, January 1 View Page Even with a couple inches of snow on Halloween we still had 500 trick or treaters. Here’s part of the cases of candy being unloaded for the little goblins.   Monday, January 1 View Page Finally got one of the molds to work on the flat bottom of a 80 pound field pumpkin. People were absolutely perplexed by it. It was definitely the most talked about decoration   Monday, February 19 View Page The Illinois seed auction will be this Saturday evening. The details will be posted soon. We have amazing seeds including some great ones from the past. These 146.5 Young watermelon seeds from 2015 have got to be near impossible to find at this point. They will also be up for auction as well.   Thursday, February 22 View Page This is lot number 7 “retro mega lot” up for bids this Saturday evening—Illinois seed auction. This one lot has over 50 seeds from years 2010 to 2018. Check out all these past greats all in one lot. Details are posted   Thursday, June 13 View Page The 2 plants on the A side. Close is 2342 Stelts and far is 1849.5 Adkins. Added a couple hundred sq ft this year   Thursday, June 13 View Page 2342 x 1849 pollinated this AM 1849 x 2342 pollinated June 8th   Thursday, June 13 View Page 2465.5 Sperry on the B side. Pollination tomorrow   Saturday, June 29 View Page The 1849.5 Adkins x2342 Stelts DAP20. No burn problem this year. 130 lbs. 20 more than I average at this point   Wednesday, July 3 View Page 2342 Stelts x 1849.5 Adkins DAP 20 =173 pounds. Expectations blown away. Weather has been better than past few years. Still got a tracked EF0 tornado less than a mile from our house last week. Wheaton has had several tornados in the past few years now. Hopefully that’s it for this year   Saturday, July 6 View Page 1849.5 Adkins DAP 30=430 pounds   Tuesday, July 9 View Page 2465 Sperry x 2342 Stelts set at 20 feet. DAP 20 -OTT is 191 so 165 pounds. The larger growing area and better fertilizing seems to be a good thing so far. Although I just got the drip tape in last week so I have been hand water and fertilizing from a water can up till that point   Saturday, July 13 View Page 2342 Stelts DAP 30 at 291OTT= 570 pounds just about 40 pounds a day average. That’s a record for my patch this early.