Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 205 Entries. Sunday, January 3 View Page Thanks for the idea Davidphx   Sunday, January 3 View Page Out for a ride this morning on scavenger hunt for another sight I'm on.   Sunday, January 3 View Page Potential seeds this year. some more may be coming.   Sunday, January 3 View Page And these.   Sunday, January 10 View Page Have to show the results of what mustard I bought from Ron Wallace did for me this fall. I cut it Thanksgiving weekend and added 9.5 yards of manure and then tilled it in. This is over 6 weeks and we have had some warm weather. Should have added some winter rye but didn't get around to it. But the thing I want to point out is there isn't a weed in site.   Sunday, April 10 View Page Started seed last sunday. 1327.5 Rea, 1426.5 Larivearie, 1998.5 Jutras, 1317 Clementz, My own 454 Fleming, and 783 Fleming.   Sunday, April 10 View Page Of 10 seeds only 5 germed. Both Rea's, Lariviere's and Jutras. 1317 Clemenz and my own didn't germ. Not sure why.   Sunday, April 10 View Page Reskinned hoop houses today.   Sunday, April 10 View Page Had my dad help get irrigation tanks set up.   Sunday, April 10 View Page more tanks set up for rain off the house   Sunday, April 10 View Page Testing to see soil temps with out heating and just solar under the hoops. it's about 50 deg today. Sun was lower and this was about an hour. soil was 58 and hoop temp was 86. will monitor for a couple of days.   Sunday, April 10 View Page Here is the Jutras on the left and Rea's on the right.   Sunday, April 10 View Page The larivearie's   Sunday, April 10 View Page and 2 191 blair watermelons. hope they work out for me.   Monday, April 11 View Page Well thank you weather people. Said we were going to get some spot showers. Nothing about 40 mile per hour wind. Sunday turned out to be a waste of the day now.   Sunday, April 17 View Page Hoop hoses fixed and in the patch. Monitoring for soil temps. I am going to try filling a black plastic garbage bag with water and see how it affects the hoop and soil temps over night.   Sunday, April 17 View Page Had to put one of my helpers down today.It was a private service.   Sunday, April 17 View Page And then I got a new helper!   Sunday, April 17 View Page Added all this with it.   Sunday, April 17 View Page Here are the Gems under the lights.   Sunday, April 17 View Page My own were slow out of the gate but ended up with 3 of them. There for The Marshfield fair.   Saturday, April 23 View Page Starting to harden off the plants. These are probably the best looking plants I have ever had at this point in a season. Things I did different thanks to Steve Connolly and Ron Wallace. After germination dropped temp to 70's and used better lighting. I could get T5's so I went with T8's for now. In the pots I used Ron's pumpkin pro and azos.   Saturday, April 23 View Page Curious about the yellow spots and some light leaves. I am using Neptunes harvest fish and seaweed alternating 2 days water 1 day Neptunes. Any opinons would be great.   Sunday, May 1 View Page Put the plants out yesterday. April 30. added these to all the holes.   Sunday, May 1 View Page my 454's   Sunday, May 1 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere   Sunday, May 1 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Didn't have heat in this hoop last night. Hope I didn't hurt them.   Sunday, May 1 View Page My only 1998.5 Jutras. Again no heat last night but looks like it's standing back up. I have heat in all hoops now.   Sunday, May 1 View Page Had to use 2 circuits. Heaters were to much for one 20 amp.   Tuesday, May 3 View Page These came in the mail today. Really looking forward to this year.   Wednesday, May 4 View Page 1327.5 coming around. It took that first cold hit the hardest.   Wednesday, May 4 View Page 1998.5 took it a little hard but is coming back nicely too.   Wednesday, May 4 View Page 1426.5 still the best looking will be tough to cull one of these.   Wednesday, May 4 View Page My own 454 still behind but were slow starters anyway. they still look very healthy   Wednesday, May 4 View Page This week has been tough. low 40's at night low to mid 50's during the day. The heaters have really made a difference.   Saturday, May 7 View Page My 454's looking good and then some extras out for hardening off. 2.00 ellis, 3.23 marley, 4.40 machuad   Saturday, May 7 View Page 1998.5 Jutras looking real good. a 13' 6" Rahe sun flower with a couple of my seedlings out for hardening off.   Saturday, May 7 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere looking to lay down in the next couple of days.   Saturday, May 7 View Page 1327.5 Rea may lay down too.   Sunday, May 8 View Page Almost forgot the 2 191 Blair watermelons I have going. Just not sure where I'm planting them.   Sunday, May 8 View Page Here is the rain I collect off my roof. I have 10 of theses filled right now. 275 gal ea.   Sunday, May 8 View Page Here's how I collect off the house. Then pump it up to the hill.   Sunday, May 8 View Page Got 2 emails last night from people watching my diary. I'm flattered and now the pressures on to keep it going.   Monday, May 9 View Page first time in over a week the sun is coming up and clear skies. Going to be mid 60's today so venting the hoops a little today.   Monday, May 9 View Page Beautiful day. plants were a little wilted when I got home from work. Nice shot of neptunes and 2 gallons of water to each. Standing up nicely now This is the 1426.5 lariviere. The right is probably the keeper.   Monday, May 9 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Also think the one on the right is the keeper but they are close right now.   Monday, May 9 View Page 1998.5 jutras   Monday, May 9 View Page 454 fleming still small but looking good.   Thursday, May 12 View Page 1998.5 Jutras is lagging a little but looks healthy and shoud pick up speed soon.   Thursday, May 12 View Page 454 Fleming looking healthy but still way behind the others. also the 191 blairs look good and the 2.00 ellis 3.26 Marley and 4.40 Machaud in the back round.   Thursday, May 12 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere is still my favorite so far. need to put some better sticks in to get I back over the leaf under it.   Thursday, May 12 View Page And it has some males already showing up.   Thursday, May 12 View Page 1327.5 Rea really putting up a fight for strongest plant. I like this one a lot also.   Thursday, May 12 View Page And it has some males also.   Sunday, May 15 View Page 1998.5 Jutras starting to vine a little. I left the hoops open last night without heat. It was mid 50's this morning and they handled it well.   Sunday, May 15 View Page 1327.5 Rea has laid down. and is about 2.5' long. wondering if I should start burying the vine   Sunday, May 15 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere is standing strong. I think It needs to see a doctor because it has definatly been more than 4 hours.   Sunday, May 15 View Page 454 Fleming looking good. Would like to see this get better. This is a third generation pumpkin for me. there are some good genetics in this pumpkin.   Sunday, May 15 View Page I think this is rouge mustard that didn't germinate last year.   Sunday, May 15 View Page Here is some flowering on the edge of the patch.   Sunday, May 15 View Page Here is a different view of my patch   Sunday, May 15 View Page And here is the start of my 30 gal compost tea brewer.   Monday, May 16 View Page barrel cut and pipes cut. Think I'm going to shorten the pipes by about 2 inches though   Monday, May 16 View Page now need water and air   Monday, May 16 View Page air pump I have is to small will be getting a bigger one in the next couple of weeks. But it is flowing out of 2 of the tubes.   Wednesday, May 18 View Page While watering everything this morning I noticed some males on my 191 Blair watermelon. I don't even have these in the ground yet. was going t plant them this weekend.   Wednesday, May 18 View Page And then when I looked closer I saw this one. I know it's way to early and the plant is small and not even in the ground. Just think I'm doing something right this year. Diligence seems to be paying off.   Thursday, May 19 View Page I culled a 1426.5 Lariviere. It's not a sad thing though because I'm giving to a friend who is going to grow for her second year.   Thursday, May 19 View Page The chosen one. 1426.5 lariviere. Hoop repositioned. Heat is coming of this weekend. And probably some vine burying.   Thursday, May 19 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Looking very good. Will be culling one this weekend. Still not sure which one but I think it will be the one on the left.   Thursday, May 19 View Page 1998.5 Jutras starting to vine.   Thursday, May 19 View Page 454 Fleming small but neck & neck. I will be moving everything out of this house this this weekend and start pushing one of these plants. It needs to be ready for the Marshfield fair in late August.   Thursday, May 19 View Page Tomatoes   Thursday, May 19 View Page The very rare selfie.   Thursday, May 19 View Page 13' 6" Rhea sunflower.   Friday, May 20 View Page Delivered a plant to my buddy at work. Maybe first ever pumpkin on a bike.   Friday, May 20 View Page Made it safe and sound.   Saturday, May 21 View Page Final till for the 2016 season.   Saturday, May 21 View Page Need to cull one of the 1327.5 Rea's tomorrow.   Saturday, May 21 View Page I think it will be the one on the right but it's going to be tough. They both look good.   Saturday, May 21 View Page Meant to say the one on the left in the last picture.   Sunday, May 22 View Page culled the one of the 1327.5 Rea's this morning. I hate taking out a plant   Sunday, May 22 View Page culled one of 454 Fleming also   Sunday, May 22 View Page I pinched 2 little watermelons of the plant when I took them out of the hoop. Need to get these in the ground. New to watermelon growing so we'll see how this goes.   Thursday, May 26 View Page Here are todays updates. All my plants have a male flower opening today or tomorrow. Way ahead of the curve for me at this time of the year. Testing some compost tea on test subjects. We are in the warm weather now and the plants put on some quicker growth last night.   Thursday, May 26 View Page 454 Fleming just won't lay down and seems to want to grow in its own direction and has the biggest flower.   Thursday, May 26 View Page 454 Fleming   Thursday, May 26 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. Still my favorite plant but the Rea plant is really coming on strong.   Thursday, May 26 View Page 1327.5 Rea   Thursday, May 26 View Page 1998.5 Jutras. Still very slow to grow. I think it could be this section of the patch. It's been amended like the rest of the patch but it is not as nice soil on this side yet.   Thursday, May 26 View Page Compost tea test brew. I don't really know what I'm doing just testing things I'm reading.   Thursday, May 26 View Page Compost tea test subject. It's and extra plant that I Don't know the genetics. It didn't die after yesterdays tea test. And it di look greener when I got home.   Thursday, May 26 View Page And some more tea test subjects. Extra 2.00 Ellis tomato seeds I don't have room for.   Thursday, May 26 View Page So when I went to work this morning at 6:30 I watered this plant. It looked good. Got home and no it looks like this.   Thursday, May 26 View Page This is what is left of the 13' 6" I had going. I don't know if this is enough leaf to keep it going. Time to put the trap out again.   Monday, May 30 View Page so 2 days into compost tea test the plant was looking really good in the morning. And then not so good when I got home. Trap was tripped and nothing in it and both pumpkin test plants eaten.   Monday, May 30 View Page The tomatos look good. greened up the net day.   Monday, May 30 View Page The 191 blair has it's permanent home. If you have any suggestions please feel free to email me. I don't have experience with watermelons.   Monday, May 30 View Page Pumpkin on the 1426.5 Lariviere. it's about 6 feet out. It will come off though, to early.   Monday, May 30 View Page 454 Fleming. getting bigger and now vining a little bit. Needs some coaxing to go in the right direction.   Monday, May 30 View Page 1998 Jutras. Still the slowest plant. but It's in the spot I chose for the plant to take up the 454's place after it goes to the Marshfield fair. Need to test this spot by it self. It grew the 454 last year and compared to the rest of the patch it is not doing as good as the others.   Monday, May 30 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. I am really favoring this plant. It has been the best performer until the next post. Maybe would have been different if I had put it in the Jutras spot. It is the first plant with a pumpkin showing. I will pinch that off though. Need the plants bigger before I take off the hoops. there still on right now because I have aground hog to catch. It hasn't realized there's pumpkins in them there hoops.   Monday, May 30 View Page 1327.5 Rea. I am actually liking this plant a little more than the 1426.5. It is almost 8 feet long now and has some small side vines showing. It is in the part of the patch that gets the least sun. Only by a few minutes probably. It is growing faster than the others and looks fantastic. this year 3 of my plants are from big and orange. I hope I actually get a big beautiful pumpkin out of one of them. I'll be happy with big orange and ugly too though. Just be big.   Monday, May 30 View Page 191 Blair. Closer look. I have pinched 3 melons off this already. we got some really good rain today. And it was fertilized yesterday. Things should really pop this week.   Thursday, June 2 View Page The enemy has been caught. Tomorrow it's a road trip. And then set the trap if there's relatives.   Thursday, June 2 View Page 1998.5 Jutras moving along.   Thursday, June 2 View Page 1327.5 Rea has hit the end of the hoop. Need to make sure the varmints are gone before I take off the hoop.   Thursday, June 2 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Showing up jus t a little to early. about 8 feet out.   Thursday, June 2 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. Has also hit the end of the hoop.   Thursday, June 2 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere has 2 pumpkins at 8 feet. will remove all soon.   Thursday, June 2 View Page My 454 looks healthy and is starting to catch up. At 3 feet long it also has a pumpkin. all though you cant see it in this picture. Had to really coax this plant in the right direction.   Saturday, June 4 View Page Hoops are off. Drip tapes are in and leaks fixed. Note to self take better care of the drip tape in the off season.   Saturday, June 4 View Page caught 2 more. Youngens. Let them go the same place I let the mother go. Good luck! funny story. I put the first one in a dog cage because I knew there were at least 2. it got out but could get out of the truck bed. The second one I let go in the bed with the other one. 20 min later I come out and it's sitting on the bed rail. Jumped tot he ground when I got close. I got a big bucket and caught it again near the road. Had a thick freezer glove on. People must have thought I was nuts wrestling a baby groundhog into submission. Got them both in the trap.   Saturday, June 4 View Page Really flagging in the heat. First time getting direct sun. But they all had seven gallons of neptunes and bloom and grow. Front is 454 Fleming, Left is the 1998.5 Jutras, Right is the 1426.5 Lariviere, And back is 1327.5 Rea.   Tuesday, June 7 View Page Cucumber beetles and squash bugs have shown up the same day. Starting with seven to try and slow them down. Will probably switch to bonide tree and shrub by the weekend. and we have possible wind and hail tonight. Not in a good mind set today.   Thursday, June 16 View Page 454 Fleming. I have a pumpkin about 8 or nine feet out. Will be pollinating it this weekend. This is my Marshfield fair plant so it needs to be an early pollination.   Thursday, June 16 View Page 1998.5 Jutras. Still the slowest plant in the patch but will have the most space available when the 454 is gone.   Thursday, June 16 View Page 1327.5 Rae. Looking really good. Has a pumpkin about 12 feet out. might be pollinating this weekend.   Thursday, June 16 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. This is still my favorite plant. It isn't showing a pumpkin on the main yet. There were 4 on side vines. It is the most prolific plant in the patch.   Thursday, June 16 View Page SVB's showed up around the 13th. I saw one more in the trap today. Haven't seen any flying around.   Friday, June 17 View Page So I had a visitor today for a patch tour and to pick up his anthesis. He asked me what the crosses were for the chosen plants I have growing. Don't know that stuff off the top of my head. So here it is for the record. My plan is to cross the Jutras into all the others. I plan on 1 lariviere into the Rea and into the 454 1327.5 Rea ----1498 Werner x 979 McMillan 1426.5 Lariviere ----1676.5 Daletas x 2009 Wallace 1998.5 Jutras ----1317 Clementz x 1916 Barron 454 Fleming ----471 Fleming x 2032 Mathison   Saturday, June 18 View Page Why are these leaves curling? I posted this question in the tomato forum   Saturday, June 18 View Page The 3 tomato's in the foreground were planted 1 week after the ones in the back. They are different varieties but I don't think that's that problem if it even is a problem.   Sunday, June 19 View Page Relocation program for number 7.   Sunday, June 19 View Page 1327.5 Rea pollinated this morning at 5:30. 3 1998.5 Jutras's were at the party.   Sunday, June 19 View Page 1327.5 Rea.   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Applied Anthesis this morning to the 1327.5 Rea. Under abarage off rain and lightening. Very scary. And I don't really get scared   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Pollinated my 454 Fleming. x 1998.5 Jutras   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Nice symmetrical lobes   Tuesday, June 21 View Page Lots of pollen from 2 males.   Thursday, June 23 View Page Applied anthesis to the 454 Fleming this morning At 5:00AM.   Thursday, June 23 View Page 1998.5 Jutras.   Thursday, June 23 View Page 1327.5 Rea   Thursday, June 23 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere   Thursday, June 23 View Page 454 Fleming   Thursday, June 23 View Page 13'6" Rahe has recovered and looks pretty good. Had a little bug damage so I used a little sevin to slow them down.   Thursday, June 23 View Page 191 Blair. Plant isn't very big but looks healthy and is starting to shoot of more sides. Any thing over 26lbs will be a PB for me so What ever I get I'll be happy.   Thursday, June 23 View Page Noticed another watermelon on the side vine.   Friday, June 24 View Page Pollinated A 1998.5 Jutras this morning. Selfed. Only one male was available.   Friday, June 24 View Page 1998.5 Jutras.   Saturday, June 25 View Page Don't think the first 1327.5 took. this is day 6 and there isn't much growth.   Saturday, June 25 View Page My 454 Fleming was pollinated 2 days later and is more than twice the size. The difference between these is I put ice around the 454 and didn't do that to the 1327.5   Wednesday, June 29 View Page disappointing morning. Finally bit the bullet and cut them off. first 2 pollinations didn't take. Have some more but not as many as I wanted by now.   Wednesday, June 29 View Page My 454 Fleming did take though and It looks good at day 8.   Sunday, July 3 View Page 454 Fleming 12DAP. Very pleased with the look of this pumpkin. Bring on Marshfield   Sunday, July 3 View Page 1998.5 Jutras. This one is plumping quickly.   Sunday, July 3 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Plant is in really good shape and has 3 pollinations one has taken for sure waiting to see on the others.   Sunday, July 3 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. This is the biggest plant in the patch and also has 3 pollinations. I think they have all taken   Sunday, July 3 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. This is the biggest plant in the patch and also has 3 pollinations. I think they have all taken   Sunday, July 3 View Page Very happy with my patch this year. I have 13 pollinations right now. 3 per plant and one has 4. I think I'm shooting for one more. Still learning a lot for next year and hope it can only get better.   Sunday, July 3 View Page I know it doesn't say it on the sign but all Jutras's were selfed.   Thursday, July 7 View Page 454 Fleming 16 DAP. Looking real nice and can see the growth each day.   Thursday, July 7 View Page What is this. First signs of a problem. about 4 feet down the main I saw these leaves yesterday. The plant the rest of the plant looks very healthy. I put some captan on because I didn't no what else to do and have been using companion through out the season. Any help would be great.   Thursday, July 7 View Page more   Thursday, July 7 View Page more   Thursday, July 7 View Page And the tip doesn't look good either   Friday, July 8 View Page 454 Fleming 17 DAP.   Friday, July 8 View Page Full patch shot. 3 Pumpkins choosen. Have not culled the others yet.   Friday, July 8 View Page The Lariviere plant is my biggest plant. It starts right in front of the pumpkin that's covered. My problem is that there are 4 pumpkins pollinated on it. 3 of them are the same size pollinated on different days. I accidently snapped the tip off the main about 6 feet after the pumpkin I want to keep. There is a secondary that is taking over for the main. I'm going to wait a week more before I choose which one to go with.   Sunday, July 10 View Page 2 visits this weekend from local growers. After they both left I went to get the stuff for pumpkin shade I was telling them about. My idea is to not have anything touch the pumpkin this year.   Sunday, July 10 View Page Covered with a cheap queen size fitted sheet.   Sunday, July 10 View Page And here it is over the pumpkin. Need to secure it so the wind wont blow it away but I like it so far.   Sunday, July 10 View Page Tomorrow will be 20 DAP. Hope I have good numbers. But the only one that will matter is on Aug 20th at the Marshfield fair.   Sunday, July 10 View Page 3 other pumpkins have been chosen and covered. The Rea pumpkin is already showing orange in the first 10 days. The Jutras looks really good and I like the Lariviere. Pictures to come soon.   Monday, July 11 View Page 1998.5 Jutras pumpkin   Monday, July 11 View Page 1327.5 Rea pumpkin. already showing orange   Monday, July 11 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere pumpkin. I like the position on the vine on this one.   Monday, July 11 View Page 454 Fleming pumpkin. 20 day numbers are 63" cir. 43" bs. 45" ss. 151 ott.   Monday, July 11 View Page 1327.5 Rea leaves are huge.   Friday, July 15 View Page 1327.5 Rea. She is a pretty little round pumpkin and showing lots of orange.   Friday, July 15 View Page 1998.5 Jutras. Getting long and blocky. Showing orange stripes in the grooves.   Friday, July 15 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. Really picking up steam and rounding out. Shows some orange. Has a big fat long stem.   Friday, July 15 View Page And here is my baby. 454 Fleming. It has put 8 inches on the OTT measurement 3 days in a row. I made it past my day 23 day failure of last year so I'm hopeful it goes the distance. Measurements are cir. 76.5" bs 51.5" ss 52.5" ott 180.5   Friday, July 15 View Page Also interesting to comment about the 1998.5 Jutras. There is a second pollination that is reacting the same way.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 1998.5 Jutras. Not real happy with the shape but we'll see how it goes. The plant has been challenge from the beginning. smallest plant in the patch, small leaves, really takes a hit in the heat.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 1327.5 Rea is so bright I gotta where shades. I will take a nother picture in lower light conditions. It reflects the sun so much I have to wait for a low light condition.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 1426.5 Lariviere. This pumpkin is my second best right now but I think when I start measuring it, it's going to be the front runner in the patch. nice shape to it. It go to big for the little table so it has it's new shade cover over it.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 454 fleming. My seed is really making me proud. It has grown so well for me. It doesn't get special treatment. It was planted in a spot it could be pulled after the Marshfield fair and the Jutras plant grew into it's place. todays numbers cir. 87", bs 56" ss 56" ott 199" that was 11" since yesterday.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 454 fleming. My seed is really making me proud. It has grown so well for me. It doesn't get special treatment. It was planted in a spot it could be pulled after the Marshfield fair and the Jutras plant grew into it's place. todays numbers cir. 87", bs 56" ss 56" ott 199" that was 11" since yesterday.   Sunday, July 17 View Page 1327.5 Rea. Here is another picture. There is definitely something about this pumpkin. Every time I try to take a picture of it the camera is either washed out or goes into a dark mode. Nana Rea. Are you camera shy too? It is the most orange pumpkin I've grown   Sunday, July 17 View Page here is the other picture I tried to take of the 1327.5 Rea.   Monday, July 18 View Page So I think I'm losing my 1998.5 Jutras plant. It started a couple of days ago. I think it cant handle the heat. I don't see any SVB damage and I don't think it was squash bugs. Been real hot here past few days.   Monday, July 18 View Page Then these side vines are going light. It looked really good except for small leave up until now.   Tuesday, July 19 View Page Thinking about giving up on the 1998.5 Jutras. And what ever happens happens. Pruned it hard of all the bad leaves. Not really sure what happened. And the pumpkin isn't growing nicely now.   Tuesday, July 19 View Page Here's the pumpkin.   Tuesday, July 19 View Page 454 Fleming still looking good. 212 ott today   Sunday, July 24 View Page So today was a hard decision day for me. I pulled the 1998.5 Jutras. The plant has not done well and the pumpkin wasn't growing well. I thought about growing for ugliest pumpkin but that's not Justice for Jutras.   Sunday, July 24 View Page This is all that's left.   Wednesday, July 27 View Page So it was a rough weekend. After I pulled the Jutras plant I went to measure my 454 Fleming. It had stalled about day 30 and day 34 it had shrunk. No back up on this plant so no Marshfield fair for me. It hasn't rotted out yet but looks kinda weird.   Wednesday, July 27 View Page The 1426.5 Lariviere is still growing all though slowly. I expect this because of the anthesis. Need to make it past 35 days for proof it is growing. Not taking any measurements right now. But it's around 220 ott   Wednesday, July 27 View Page 1327.5 Rea is growing but is also small. Another anthesis treated pumpkin so we will see. It looks big here but is narrow and tall.   Wednesday, July 27 View Page Back up on the Rea plant is near the fence but has room to grow. This was an open pollination That I let go. Its about 10 feet out on a secondary and probably 20 feet total from the main pumpkin.   Wednesday, July 27 View Page Backups on the 1426.5 Lariviere. I call them the twins one was an open pollination and one was a 1998.5 Jutras cross. I have it written down as to which is which. Pollinated days apart but the same size and shape.   Friday, August 5 View Page First year trying to grow giant tomatos. This is my first pick off a 3.23 Marley. unofficial weight. Got some bigger ones that will be weight at a local deli. Might have one pushing 3 pounds.   Tuesday, August 9 View Page Does anybody grow Pineapple tomatoes for size? I've got a 2.02 one that I grew. I think it's the biggest one I've ever grown. Usually grow just to eat.   Sunday, October 2 View Page Well the year wasn't a total bust for me. My 1426.5 Lariviere made it to the scale. It is now the 561.5 Fleming. It went heavy so I'm happy about that. Even placed and got a little payout. One more small one just to get an official weight for the genetics at Frerich's next weekend.   Wednesday, October 5 View Page Well the 561 one went out with a bang.   Wednesday, October 5 View Page Short story. Car in front of my jacked on the brakes. We were only going about 10 to 15 miles an hour in traffic. Lower strap let go and pumpkin called shot gun.   Wednesday, October 5 View Page test   Wednesday, October 5 View Page Still got my Topsfield number though.   Sunday, October 9 View Page Great day at Frereich's yesterday. The 1327.5 Rea is now 307 Fleming. Saw the North American record broken and several personal best for growers. Already thinking of next year.   Friday, November 11 View Page So back window was fixed a 2 weeks. Pulled it out myself and insurance covered the window.   Friday, November 11 View Page Adding Sqft to the patch.   Friday, November 11 View Page And adding some sun. Yesterday.   Friday, November 11 View Page And Today.