Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 18 Entries. Friday, January 13 View Page T minus 4 days until the farm show Keeping pumpkins this long is not fun nor easy Wednesday, April 18 View Page Holy cow. Medallion is expensive. Started the season a few days early due to the temperatures..... Monday, May 14 View Page Special thanks to John Van Hook for the iris all those years ago. Monday, May 14 View Page Getting ready to roll. Tuesday, May 15 View Page Rolling in the competition patch. My best and only spot. The Seed: Some random Beachy cross 1663 Zoellner x 1421 Stelts (cutting grew 1663) Sunday, June 3 View Page The 119.5. We have high hopes for this one. Monday, June 18 View Page Selfed the 144 in my back yard. I fear it is my only shot. The heat has burnt off both of the 2 after it, and the main is looking a little funky from the heat. Thursday, June 21 View Page Typo. 119.5 in the back yard. To many different numbers. Thursday, June 28 View Page Season turning crummy here. had an aport on my only chance on the main. All the others burnt off. Had to prune a side into the main and take the one I pollinated just in case. Its now the new main. We'll see with 100 degrees on the way. Terrazole burns leaves real bad. I washed it off right away, but didnt get it in time. Tuesday, July 10 View Page Season turning sour in a hurry. Cant get MV sets to take, and sides are growing real slow. 5-100+˚F days was at the absolute worst time. No monsters coming from here. State fair pumpkin still holding strong tho! Tuesday, July 10 View Page Fall season turning sour in a hurry. Cant get MV sets to take, and sides are growing real slow. 5-100+˚F days was at the absolute worst time. No fall monsters coming from here. State fair pumpkin still holding strong tho! One guarantee. The fair pumpkin will shock everyone if we can hold it together another month! Thursday, July 12 View Page Not that the rest of the country isnt struggling from the drought or heat, but this pretty sums up the last 6 seasons for us. I think it is about time to retire from competitive growing. I have really had enough of this luck. Friday, July 27 View Page This is the best we can muster, and I am almost sure its going to split from the multiple deformaties.....and it was supposed to be orange. over 300 lbs, but over 30 days old, not impressed. Wednesday, August 22 View Page growing just a little. We went from dry to wet, and I wasnt on top of the PM, so we lost a few leaves, but seems to be ok now. If it was a better pumpkin, I would have tried harder. Thursday, September 6 View Page I have some friends that are Apple fans. This is for them. Monday, September 10 View Page Nothing super special, but a new Indiana record. 83.3 lbs. I'm going to have to really take good care of one of these, they are fun. Friday, September 28 View Page only pumpkin still growing....nothing special, but good for the area this year. Tuesday, October 2 View Page Time for a new pumpkin hauler