Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 76 Entries. Monday, April 12 View Page well it's getting time to start a new diary for 2010. seeds will go in soon and all the greenhouses are up now. Monday, April 12 View Page I covered the soil with black plastic to keep the soil moist and the weeds down. I alreday installed the water system and this will save me some time later. Monday, April 12 View Page well it's time to plant out some of the competition tomatoes in the greenhouse today Monday, April 12 View Page nice root system, I hope it stays growing like that Saturday, April 24 View Page time for an update. most plants are out now and doing fine for the moment. Saturday, April 24 View Page hanging above my patch...... Saturday, April 24 View Page sunrise Saturday, April 24 View Page sunrise Saturday, April 24 View Page is it halloween yet? Saturday, April 24 View Page temperature goes under 0°c Saturday, May 1 View Page new update: all plants are growing good.some of them are going to vine soon. Wednesday, May 12 View Page time for an update. the weather has been cold and rainy the last 2 weeks. plants haven't grown much almost zero growth. best plants at the moment are 1488M, 1180P and 1330J/B. Sunday, May 23 View Page this I call a nice tomato flower, bigger than a 2 euro coin.(btw, it's from the 5.32 Timm, fertboy) Sunday, May 23 View Page time for a pumpkin update. weather has been warm and sunny this week, plants have finally started to vine. I started 2 weeks earlier this year and still I'am 1 week behind on last year. still need to cull the back ups, it's gonna be a hard choise between the 1180 and the 1611Daho, both plants look great and they look like identical twins. Sunday, May 23 View Page here is an overview to the 2 best plants Sunday, May 23 View Page tomato plants are doing great for the moment, best plants till now are the 2 Catapano plants, we will see what they will do in the next few weeks Sunday, May 30 View Page time for a new update. plants have finally started to vine. I'm way behind to last year and need to catch up. difficult decisions haven been made today, most back ups are gone now. so final line up is: 1330J/b,1395Wallace,1068Rodonis,1488Marsh and 1180Pukos most are unproven but have some very good genetics that are waithing to be prooved. pictures will folow Sunday, May 30 View Page 1330J/B doing great at the moment Sunday, May 30 View Page 1395Wallace Sunday, May 30 View Page 1068Rodonis Sunday, May 30 View Page overview to the ebst plants at the moment Sunday, May 30 View Page main vine of the 1488Marsh is soon gonna hit the 6.5ft mark Sunday, May 30 View Page 1180Pukos is about 6 ft long now and trowig some really nice sidevines Saturday, June 5 View Page installed and tested new misting system today Saturday, June 12 View Page 1180Pukos Saturday, June 12 View Page 1488Marsh Saturday, June 12 View Page 1488Marsh (better picture) Friday, June 18 View Page 1180Pukos X 1488Marsh, 14ft Friday, June 18 View Page beautiful 5-lober on the 1180Pukos today at 14ft, still 3 females in tip of the main , probaly gonna open end next week. Thursday, June 24 View Page 1180Pukos X 1488Marsh: 18ft, 6 lobes Thursday, June 24 View Page 1488Marsh X 1180Pukos: 21ft, 5 lobes Thursday, June 24 View Page small update, we are down to only 2 main plants now: 1488Marsh and 1180Pukos, I hope these will still do good or I'm finished for the season Friday, June 25 View Page had to put up some shadecloth today Tuesday, June 29 View Page 1488Marsh X 1395Wallace, 25ft, perfect 5-lober Thursday, July 1 View Page 1180Pukos X 1395Wallace, 5lobes, 25 ft Thursday, July 1 View Page fieldpumpkins growing nicely with this weather, the giant sunflowers are growing like crazy now. still a long way to got, they are now just over 2m (7ft) long. Thursday, July 1 View Page sprinklers are doing over time now with temps to 37°c (100°F) outside and over 110F in greenhouse Thursday, July 1 View Page still haven't decided on the keepers. the fruits on the 1488 are growing fast but the ones on the 1180 are veryyyyy slow Wednesday, July 14 View Page time to sandbagge has begun: this is the ????????? at day 20 at a normal OTT(for my standards) of 160" Wednesday, July 14 View Page ????? also day 20 at about 180 OTT Wednesday, July 14 View Page ????? another one at day 20 at about 170" OTT Friday, July 16 View Page gonna spray: Calypso, Candit, scala, Lithovit and Merpan tomorrow Saturday, July 17 View Page "spray day" today Saturday, July 17 View Page fieldpumpkins have been growing like crazy the last 2 weeks. almost all sunflowers started to flower, still one left that is going to 3m, seems good for a first year and didn't give any care to them Saturday, July 17 View Page finished the last preperation for the next year patch and sowed in cover crop (yellow mustard) ( patch 1) Saturday, July 17 View Page finsished patch prep here and sowed covercrop (yellow mustard) , patch 2 Thursday, July 22 View Page first giant tomato of the year: 2.2lbs Thursday, July 22 View Page tone of the bigger tomatoes , still pretty young and 16" circ, got 2 more going on the same plant also from 16" circ Wednesday, July 28 View Page time for the last update of the pumpkin patch. it's has to be my lucky year. 1180Pukos stopped growing since about last saturday. so I didn't wanted to waste any more money on a plant that isn't growing so I pulled it this morning. and it still is getting worser. after discovering some yellow leaves on the 1488 I saw that I had a foamer going.so it was already to late to save the stump and had to amputate to stump and about 10feet of the mainvine. gains of the 1488 droped like a stone and are still going lower. dang this is really my lucky year (NOT!!!!!) Monday, August 2 View Page update on the tomatoes. they are done for this year, my biggest one blew up and my plants aren't producing any megablooms anymore Saturday, August 7 View Page laying down the plastic for strawberries in the first field yesterday Saturday, August 7 View Page everything is nicely tilled Saturday, August 7 View Page still need to lay down the other part of strawberries Saturday, August 7 View Page close up Tuesday, August 10 View Page 2 nice 2 lbers from last week, got seeds from them so anyone who want some can send an e-mail to me Wednesday, August 11 View Page probaly the last big tomato of the year: 3.3 lbs Wednesday, August 11 View Page forgot to mention, the last one was grown from the 4.59Lyons Wednesday, August 11 View Page smal mistake it's 3.5lbs Tuesday, August 17 View Page single bloom tomato: 2.0 lbs Saturday, September 4 View Page SSSSSSSSSSSSaaaaaaaaaaaaNNNNNNNNddddddddd,,,,,,,,,I love the smell of Sandddddddddddddd.............. Friday, September 17 View Page both the 1488 and 1180 have stopped growing now and won't be much over 1000. hoped for more this year but it isn't. need to work more on plant next year Friday, October 15 View Page got an early christmas gift from my wife a new toy to play with ,lol Wednesday, December 22 View Page this is small overview of what I'm planting next year Thursday, December 23 View Page this is the newest member of the family Thursday, December 23 View Page dang, where is my greenhouse??? Thursday, December 23 View Page oh there it is Thursday, December 23 View Page hmmmm........this looks kinda funny don't you think?? Thursday, December 23 View Page hmmm this looks kinda nice Thursday, December 23 View Page a bit of snow last week Thursday, December 23 View Page more snow is coming Thursday, December 23 View Page have a save and merry Christmas Saturday, December 25 View Page this is my squash line up for the moment ( in greenhouse) Tuesday, December 28 View Page well I decided to try some of crosses of this year and here is already one, it came up only after 3 DAYS and is growing fast. I'm sure gonna plant some of these as a back up next year. Wednesday, December 29 View Page here are the 239's what I was talking about, if the growers in question still have doubts than I will keep them for my self if neccessarry Wednesday, December 29 View Page I finally managed to till my geenhouse and lay the last hand on my sprinkler system Wednesday, December 29 View Page sprinkler