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Friday, February 2
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People often ask me, "how many people are on BigPumpkins.com?". This is a chart that show the number of registered users that logged on each day since the beginning of auction season. The traffic always spikes this time of year!
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Friday, February 2
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Happy Groundhog Day! AI image generated by Google's bot. Thanks Scott, it is fun!
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Saturday, March 9
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Starting to get my garden ready.
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Wednesday, March 13
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The Edit button has arrived on Grower Diary entries. There is a Delete button inside too.
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Monday, March 18
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Chad New from the RMGVG has been doing some great interviews with the some of the best giant growers in the world!
This week tune in on Tuesday night at 6:00pm MST (8:00pm EST). Chad will be talking with Andy Wolf!
Please be sure and review Chad's interview playlist and take some time to listen to them all!!
YouTube
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Friday, April 19
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For the April 2024 update to the website, this new User Profile page is coming. Is this kind of what you had in mind Andy W?
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Monday, April 22
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The User Settings form has been updated so you can customize your User Profile page. Go ahead, try it. Let me know if you run into any issues.
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Monday, April 22
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The Grower Diary Edit form was also updated. Go to the diary entry of your choice and set "Use this entry on my Profile page" to Yes. You can select an entry from any year you had a diary for.
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Wednesday, May 1
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For the May 2024 update we are testing a new version of the BigPumpkins iPhone app! This diary entry was created with it.
And updated with the app.
Special thanks to my friend Rick for working on the app and dealing with Apple.
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Wednesday, May 1
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Testing horizontally taken photo too.
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Thursday, May 2
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Got my first long beard with a shotgun!
Thanks to Gary Vincent for the calling.
Thanks to John C. for the permission to hunt.
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Tuesday, May 7
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Now available in the Apple AppStore. If you are using an iPhone or iPad for your Grower Diary, this is the easiest/best way to do it!!
Search bigpumpkins in the AppStore. The app is free.
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Tuesday, May 7
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Wow! I tried a late afternoon hunt on Tuesday. Had two nice gobblers come into my decoys. No gobbles or strutting but they went right to my Jake decoy! Boom!
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Saturday, May 18
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My tomatoes are almost ready to go outside. Thanks to John Young for the seeds.
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Saturday, June 1
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Got my tomatoes in the ground last night. Three 5.94 Young plants followed by three 7.95 Young plants. I just have to get some stakes for them. To the left are my peppers and eating tomatoes. I am trying the weed fabric this year.
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Saturday, June 1
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My potatoes are looking good this year! Two rows about 40 feet long.
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Saturday, June 8
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Time to feed my tomatoes! I am using this Fox Farm non-organic fertilizer. Let me know if I should switch it up.
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Saturday, June 8
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I spent the early morning hilling my potatoes again. There are blossoms forming all over them.
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Sunday, June 9
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They have arrived. Picked off the first Colorado Potato Beetle this morning. It was on one of my purple potato plants.
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Sunday, June 9
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Saw this eastern milk snake when out deer scouting last weekend. A very cool looking creature.
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Wednesday, June 12
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For the June 2024 update to the website, I have added the ability for Premium Members to opt into email notifications when someone adds a comment on their Grower Diary or someone replies to a message board thread they created.
To activate this feature, select "Change User Settings" from the Main Menu of the website. Then select "Yes" on the field "Send E-mail Notifications on Comments and Replies?", then click the Update Settings button.
This feature will only work for Premium Members. If your not a Premium Member, what are you waiting for?
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Friday, June 14
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Is this a mega? Looks like a big single to my untrained eyes.
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Friday, June 14
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Have not seen many potato beetles yet. But there are a few lady bugs on guard duty.
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Saturday, June 15
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The flowers on my potatoes are starting to open.
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Saturday, June 15
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Here is another variety.
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Saturday, June 22
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Mega bloom coming on a 5.94 Young plant!
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Saturday, June 22
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And another!
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Saturday, June 22
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My Jimmy Nardello peppers are looking pretty happy!
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Saturday, June 22
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My Shishito peppers are a bit smaller but they are producing lots of pods too.
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Thursday, July 4
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Happy Independence Day my fellow patriotic Americans!
Time to pick some blueberries.
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Thursday, July 4
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My potatoes have taken a beating in the recent thunderstorms. Hopefully they are bulking up those tubers.
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Thursday, July 4
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Seems after all these years, I still learn the hard way on most things.
Today’s project: put up a support for the tomato plants since my initial megas did not set.
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Thursday, July 4
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That should hold a couple 5 pounders?
About seven feet tall.
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Thursday, July 4
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The bees are trying to help me out with my lack luster pollination skills!
This is on a 7.95 Young.
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Sunday, July 7
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This weekend gave me the time to test the soil temperature under my fabric to see if it is heating my roots too much.
This is not very scientific, but here goes.
Temperature in the garden was about 95 degrees.
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Sunday, July 7
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Temperature under the fabric at a depth of 2 to 3 inches.
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Sunday, July 7
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Temperature under bare soil at a depth of 2 to 3 inches.
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Friday, July 12
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Had a doe come into my yard the other night and seemed to be heading for my garden!
She opted for the easy meal though and stayed out of my fenced in garden.
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Saturday, July 13
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For the July 2024 update to the website, I have added the ability to re-sort the list of Grower Diaries by UserName, Location or Date.
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Monday, July 15
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Don't forget to register for the all-of-New-England clubs joint picnic happening next month in New Hampshire!
Saturday August 10th in Merrimack, NH. Hosted by the NHGPGA. Use the link below to download the registration form and other details.
NHGPGA Summer Picnic Registration 2024
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Ken D. - 2024 Grower Diary 
