Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 18 Entries. Sunday, February 24 View Page Im Starting my 2013 diary, I started making some blue bird house to put out around my pumpkin patch, I made a small jackalantern where the nest hole is ,so It looks like the bird is going in the pumpkin jackalanterns mouth, something different, I just hope it starts warming up so I can start preparing the ground. Sunday, April 28 View Page I started on my patch,I tilled yesterday, I planted some seeds,Im going to plant the 827 gerhardt,a 1524 fulk and one of my seeds from one of my little pumpkins,going to plant atleast four plants, Sunday, April 28 View Page heres a picture of my patch after it rained this morning Sunday, April 28 View Page heres a picture of inside my greenhouse alot of tomato plants,peppers, cucumber and watermelon and other vege. Sunday, April 28 View Page heres my other hobby is my pond, and small stream,I have koi, goldfish,and a catfish, also some frogs come and visit. Monday, June 24 View Page Heres a update on my diary, this plant is a 827 gerhardt,Im trying something different this year,Im directing the plant outside of the greenhouse, hopefully I can have a pumpkin pollinated the first week in july. Monday, June 24 View Page heres my other 827 gerhardt,this looks like my best plant so far,Im starting to bury main and side vines,drenched this plant with some calcium this morning,also some bug killer, Monday, June 24 View Page heres a back up plant i had to put in,from this cold weather we had,this is an unknown seed,came from one of my small pumpkins,as long as it throws orange and hopefully nice shape and big, cross fingers Monday, June 24 View Page well heres my smallest plant,but i think its going to catch up,another one of my seeds, so i have 2 827 gerhardts and 2 of my seeds,so let see what happens this year, Monday, June 24 View Page well heres my waterwheel I made for around my pond Monday, June 24 View Page heres another picture of waterwheel and pond Monday, June 24 View Page heres a picture of my greenhouse inside I start all kinds of tomato peppers cucumber,squash,in the spring,I sell alot of my plants,and then I use it for one of my pumpkin plants to grow through for some protection from the wind and hail.I oen the sides so the the plant can grow outside of the greenhouse the greenhouse is 8ft wide and 24 long and about 8ft tall. Monday, October 7 View Page heres some pictures,that I didn't post earlier in my diary,I don't know what went wrong,heres a picture of my pumpkin when it was young,I will show pictures when it stopped growing in the next picture Monday, October 7 View Page heres a picture of my pumpkin,I thought I was going to have a nice pumpkin but something went wrong, pumpkin stopped at 76 inches so I decided to let others grow and see if I could atleast have a pumpkin grow to the end,all other pumpkins would grow from baseball to basketball size and stop growing for me plant looked healthy,for a while, Monday, October 7 View Page heres a rock my daughter painted for me,she know I like growing pumpkins,so she made it for me, Monday, October 7 View Page heres a picture of my pond in the fall Monday, October 7 View Page heres my fall garden,I know a lot of people are cleaning up there gardens by now and I am still planting ,I have radishes,beets,green bean and cabbage,I should be picking green beans next week, beets are starting to get some size now and radishes been ready and eating them already cabbage will be last. Monday, October 7 View Page I made my compost barrel,out of a 55 gallon barrel, hoping to get some good compost.