Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 48 Entries. Sunday, February 9 View Page looks like a freight train in the green house   Sunday, February 9 View Page one secondary and it needs a mill fabric ? flat people have a lot to learn.   Sunday, February 9 View Page Look what I found hiding under there !   Sunday, February 9 View Page These two 1734 Steil 13 plants are fighting for the space in this green house plot. They both have lots of flowers but like the Scherber..no secondaries.   Sunday, February 9 View Page While snooping around I found these palm trees. Wait...those aren't palm trees at all..they are matters. Is this some new secret cross. matter x palm tree ?   Monday, March 10 View Page FlatNorm made a visit to the Southern Ohio Giant Pumpkin Growers Winter Meeting. It seems everyone wants to hide behind FlatNorm. Can you guess the growers? Will start with the easy grower number 1...who am I?   Monday, March 10 View Page Grower number 2...who am I?   Monday, March 10 View Page Grower number 3...who am I?   Monday, March 10 View Page Grower number 4...who am I?   Monday, March 10 View Page Grower number 5...who am I?   Monday, March 10 View Page Grower number 6...who am I?   Thursday, March 27 View Page Flatnorm wants to start work in his patch but the soil is frozen.   Thursday, March 27 View Page Flatnorm may be off to a late start this year   Monday, April 14 View Page FlatNorm is excited about the 150 square foot contest this year and the idea of a not-flat pumpkin. With limited space available he marked out his patch and took some measurements. It seems he remembered enough flat-geometry to calculate that his patch is safely within the 150 sq. ft. limit.   Monday, April 14 View Page FlatNorm takes more breaks than a..well you know. Never can catch him actually working. It could take him all day to install a heating cable in his 150 patch.   Monday, April 14 View Page A blink of an eye and he is back on break but at least he has the cables in.   Friday, April 18 View Page FlatNorm was so happy with his hoop house for the 150 contest until somebody told him it would only work for flat pumpkins.   Friday, April 18 View Page FlatNorm with his improved design. He says there is so much to learn about the non-flat world. Tired after all these lessons he quickly disappeared for a nap.   Friday, May 2 View Page Someone tried to explain to FlatNorm about backup plants but it seems he missed something. He will get a lot of practice when it comes time to cull seedlings. (this is what happens when you germinate 13 year old seeds)   Wednesday, May 7 View Page only 5 days later and FlatNorms 150 square foot plants already have better color.   Thursday, May 8 View Page Flat Norm proudly shows off his weenie.......   Wednesday, May 14 View Page FlatNorm has learned that letting the plants become pot bound causes a lot of stress which in turn induces early flowers on small plants.   Thursday, May 15 View Page 15 May and FlatNorm learned how to cull plants in his 150 patch. He liked it so much he took out the 2 biggest plants before someone explained you can't put them back. Leave some for later.   Monday, May 19 View Page Had to take the knife away from FlatNorm today now that he is down to a single plant. Time for another lesson FlatNorm.   Sunday, June 1 View Page FlatNorm stands back and admires his work after removing the hoop from his 150 square ft contest plant. Not to bad for being the 'runt' from the group of 4. He has his work cut out for him keeping this one in the space allowed.   Saturday, June 7 View Page Yes Flatnorm, thats a female. Now get out of there...   Wednesday, June 25 View Page Now what is our flat friend up to in his 150 patch?   Wednesday, June 25 View Page It seems Flatnorm has found a pumpkin in his 150 patch.   Wednesday, June 25 View Page Oh no Flatnorm ! That was a nice pumpkin at 31 inches C on day 12 so why did you cull it? It seems we will need to hide his knife.   Monday, June 30 View Page What is Flatnorm doing in his 150 patch this time ?   Monday, June 30 View Page It seems Flatnorm wants to keep this one. He liked it so much he couldn't wait for it to become 10 days old and cut the main vine off. (it better set or he will be in trouble now)   Wednesday, July 2 View Page Flatnorm says the 150 patch seems to be full   Wednesday, July 2 View Page 10 days old and gets the official Flatnorm seal of approval in his 150 sq ft patch.   Sunday, July 6 View Page Flatnorm Spy Tours 2014, it seems Flatnorm has been out looking for weeds in somebody's patch   Sunday, July 6 View Page This plant needed closer inspection.   Monday, July 7 View Page Day 15 in the 150 sq ft patch and all is well.   Tuesday, July 15 View Page Flatnorm's 150 patch is full with all the vines terminated. He left just enough space for the pumpkin.   Friday, August 1 View Page Day 40 and Flatnorm is happy his pumpkin is looking so good and not flat. He did say that it needed more color.   Wednesday, August 27 View Page Flatnorm is so excited about the weigh off tomorrow that he couldn't wait to get his pumpkin out of the patch and ready to load for the trip.   Monday, September 1 View Page Flatnorm thought all pumpkins weighed like this one, at least they do in the flat world.   Monday, September 1 View Page What a surprise when he discovered there are numbers other than ZERO in the non-flat world. Not too shabby for only 150 square feet.   Wednesday, September 3 View Page The Woodstock Fair is over and Joe's squash blows flatnorm a Bronx cheers for unceremoniously slicing off a piece of squash so the side board will fit.   Wednesday, September 3 View Page Somebody said the other truck was full…   Wednesday, September 3 View Page But non-flat norm say wait wait, if you order right now   Wednesday, September 3 View Page I’ll add another at no cost   Wednesday, September 3 View Page Joe says I’ll double that !   Wednesday, September 3 View Page Not to be out done, non-flat Norm adds one more to complete the load at 5 pumpkins, all for the same low price.   Wednesday, September 3 View Page Flatnorm is so happy to be with his friends , Joe, Russ, Gene, Norm, Bart and Chris knowing that soon all these pumpkins will be in his flat domain.