Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 74 Entries. Tuesday, January 1 View Page just as the magical unicorn smiled down upon the land and its people may the pumpkin gods smile upon each and everyone of us! welcome to 2008 just a few short months away from planting time! this year i shall not wear the coveted skunk capp! Tuesday, January 1 View Page just wanted to post a pic or two of the rugged mountains here in antartica west virginia Tuesday, January 1 View Page one last shot of the hills here in west by god virginia! Saturday, March 1 View Page yepp my goal is to grow me a slunger this year!one so big it wont fit in the barn door! Thursday, March 27 View Page well as the old saying goes lets get ready to rumble! my 2008 season has officially begun, i started my three early fair plants today (Indy fair) i started a 275 vanhook, a 1010 frantz and a seceret plant, also started 4 watermellon, started a 228 edwards,207 hunt,207 brinkley,225white, ill be posting pics soon as my babies germinate! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh follllllllks! indy here this hillbilly comes! maybe third year goind to indianappolis fair will be the charm! Wednesday, April 2 View Page well folks my season has kicked into high gear i now have a 275 vanhook, a secret plant and a 207 hunt watermellon up, 1010 frantz starting to push dirt and can see signs of life from other mellons so yeeeeeeee hawwwwww! Saturday, April 19 View Page well its 12:41 am saturday morning, just got back from hospital he he, was loading my tiller onto my truck this evening for my annual tripp to my brother from another mothers house Doug aka dunkells and tiller slipped procedded to cut my finger all but off! well several stitches and some blood loss later im ready for my tripp! Doug my brother cant wait for the bbq to be fired up and to get to tilling, youre gonna grow a slunger my brother! pics of tommorows tripp and event will folow asap! god bless you all keith Sunday, April 20 View Page here is a load of some of the finest clydesdale horse poop aka budweiser pony compost he he, were loaded and ready to go to dougs aka dunkels house to amend and till his patch, ps a friend of mine raises clydedale horses beautiful animals! Sunday, April 20 View Page is that a kpm mafia sticker i see?????? yep we as a growing group kentucky giant pumpkin growers try to help each other and dunkell and i as honerary mafia members try are best to help each other! Sunday, April 20 View Page here is my brother from another mother doug aka dunkel! he he also his mom and my mom can you say its a meeting of the minds! Sunday, April 20 View Page here is katie misty and jessie and if you look real close katies new puppy jake! he is a toy terrier grrrrr gonna be a mean patch dog! dougs patch is looking pretty decent Sunday, April 20 View Page here i am old burrhead getting some tilling done kinda was hard running tiller with one hand, he he i told katie ide say she was guilty of cutting my finger just about clean off! so everyone give her a hard time lol! Sunday, April 20 View Page here is my daughter melanie shoveling poop! geter done hillbilly style! Sunday, April 20 View Page here is my mom with katies puppy jake! boy he is a monster! mom i love ya! Sunday, April 20 View Page anybody want to be a truck driver????? Sunday, April 20 View Page here is katie my mom and dougs mom.plotting and planning on old burrhead and mr dunkle! he he, doug mom thank you for allowing us to enjoy youre alls company god bless ya keith katie kids and pauline(my moms name) doug may we both grow a slunger!!!!! Wednesday, April 23 View Page 1010 frantz, 275 vanhook and secret slunger plant all went into the greenhouses today, im gonna grow a slunger! Thursday, April 24 View Page all of my fall seeds were started today: 869calai, 1231 pukos, 1123 burton, 1018 leland, 905 toffness, 1159 richards, 1104 brinkley, 1134.4 demers, 1440 checkon, 1032 stelts, 1289.5 bosworth, 1101 norhtrup, 1180 daletas, and a couple of my 609 and 407 i wish everyone a excellent growing season and may you all find a big ole slunger in youre patches come fall! ps thank you everyone who sent me seeds god bless you all! Tuesday, April 29 View Page well today we have life! 15 out of 18 has emerged to see the light of day,of the other three i lost the 1440 checkon replaced it with the 1257 hester sorry larry dont know why it didnt germ,also im waiting on the 1104 brinkley and 1180 daletas they should be up and seing the light of day tommorow i peeked he he! Monday, May 5 View Page all plants are in the ground calling for cold weather weeeeeeeeee1 Saturday, May 10 View Page rain rain and more rain and did i say cold weather yepp temps in the 50s during the day and lows of 35 degrees at night what fun Tuesday, May 20 View Page more dang rain man what a pain! still cold also plants are surviving i think they are learning to swimm! Sunday, May 25 View Page well yesterday weather finally broke actually saw the sun! was warm today and sunny and guess what dang cucumber beetles arrived here in west virginia arggggggggggghhhhhhh! fair plants are doing allright fall plants looking decent they have definately been harden off by the weather here in antartica wv! Tuesday, August 5 View Page humm guess its time to post a few pics i took earlier, there just might be a slunger growing here in my patch,ifn them thar weeds and the cold dont pert nearit blow up my fruti this year,i remember i dont count my chickens before they hatch Tuesday, August 5 View Page nice stem on this here 1133 demers punkin not bad for being a baby when i took pic he he! Tuesday, August 5 View Page i caught these ghost in my patch earlier this year boooooooo! Tuesday, August 5 View Page here is the 1231pukos date should have been 5th of august not 28th oops! Tuesday, August 5 View Page once again date should have been aug 5th oops been awhile since i posted reckon im pert nearit computer not to smart hehe! Tuesday, August 5 View Page here is a late june shot of my new patch i opened this year i think it will be nice spot ps new pond i dug is on right of pic nice irrigation plans for it Tuesday, August 5 View Page john here is a pic of the 275 vanhook or aka lumpy back when she was a baby hummn wonder ifn it is pert nearit a slunger now ?????????/ dang i dont know cant find it for the weeds in my patch lol! Tuesday, August 5 View Page lord help me ive gone to the ahhhhh dark side,remeber back in beginning of my diary i said i had a secret plant well here is my daughter melanie in front of what i hope will be the new West Virginia state record squash,hummn wonder how big it is now maybe its a big ole green slunger he he, ps john look at the stem on it kinda big back then! Thursday, August 28 View Page heres a nice young fruit on my 1231 pukos crossed it with my 1101 northrup Thursday, August 28 View Page bill here is the 1104 brinkley it was pretty orange here on the 5th of august and is getting much darker now! i crossed it with the 1231 pukos Thursday, August 28 View Page nice thick stem on the 1104 bill she is gonna be a big ole orange slunger! Thursday, August 28 View Page john she is gonns be a awsome green color and still has tight blossom end! you did a awsome cross my brother! Thursday, August 28 View Page here is my patch dog jake, yepp we here in west by god virginia beleive in god our guns and we stand tall and strong for our country this is my political feelings and i approve of this message! Thursday, August 28 View Page here is my lady katie being guarded close by the my patch dog jakie! he is a killer lol you should see him follow me through the punkin patch its funny he will not step on a single vine walks around em like he knows he isnt supposed to touch em! Thursday, August 28 View Page hummn lets all hope that all of our slungers make it through to the weigh offs till then good luck and god bless! Thursday, September 11 View Page hummn wonder who will be wearing the coveted skunk capp next week at the Kentucky giant Pumpkin Growers 2nd annual weigh off held at Bear Wallow farms in Nancy Kentucky?????????? hummmn will it be Wayne? maybe Jamie? who knows i hope it doesnt return to West by god Virginia with me! 1 week to go! Thursday, September 11 View Page here is Katie modeling the coveted skunk capp for us Kentucky giant pumpkin growers she looks a lot better in it than any of us will hummn im thinking of how wayne will look weeeeeeeeeeeee! Tuesday, September 23 View Page this about sums it all up! the kentucky pumpkin mafia! what a great group of guys! thanks judy for carving this and good job on the skunk! it was appropriate, just bout matched the first annual skunk capp we had to award! Tuesday, September 23 View Page wow what mellons! congrats go out to Frank Mudd and Bill Brinkley awsome job! ps thanks again bill for the chemicals i appreciate it greatly! Tuesday, September 23 View Page not a bad lineup if i do say so myself! Tuesday, September 23 View Page here is Larry Burtons 1216 lb kentucky state record pumpkin! Tuesday, September 23 View Page here is a pic of my pumpkin i took its the orange one on the right it won me the Howard dill award for prettiest pumpkin! thanks bill for the 1104 seed that grew it and with the 1231 pukos as a pollinator i think it will throw some pretty orange slungers! Tuesday, September 23 View Page here is a shot of my punkin going to the scales! humm got the pretty one weighed now i cant wait until altoona to weigh my big ole ugly slunger punkin! Thursday, October 16 View Page this is a picture of one of my proudest accomplishments as a giant pumpkin grower, i won the howard dill award for prettiest pumpkin at the kentucky giant pumpkin weigh off,i picked my 1104 brinkley just for this purpose! thank you Howard for all you did for our sport and may god bless the dill family! Thursday, October 16 View Page i just thought ide post a few fall pics of mylittle piece of heaven here in west by god virginia Thursday, October 16 View Page here is a pic of my farm pretty huh! Thursday, October 16 View Page he he mountains are pretty here in antartica wv Thursday, October 16 View Page yepp october 16th and still got some giants left in the patch i wanted to weigh three of them this past weekend in ohio but health issues kept me from it i will get them weighed this week and post pics Thursday, October 16 View Page here is a phatt jack i grew this year had several biggest was 82 lbs others ones from 40 to 60lbs i think ill try them again next year man look at the stems on these two Thursday, October 16 View Page here is a shot of a phatt jack stem man there well endowed he he! Sunday, October 19 View Page here is a 225 lb genetic pumpkin i donated to are local doller store,there doing a raffle to support the literacy for youth foundation, i grew it from my 609lb barrett 07 fruit got another one i crossed with the 1101 northrup should be even better orange! Sunday, October 19 View Page i forgot to tell ya the name of this kin i called it bear because when it was about 2o days old a bear took a bite from it lol! Sunday, October 19 View Page here is a fruit i grew off of the 1159 richards i crossed it with the 1180 daletas should keep its awsome color Sunday, October 19 View Page here is a decent lineup of orange some daletas some northrup some calai genetics and heck even some wallace and wolf genetics and even some pukos nice genetic grab bag he he Sunday, October 19 View Page pretty orange i think Sunday, October 19 View Page just a shot from the other side showing some white in a sea of orange he he,i got 3more left to harvest my 1133demers, my 1231pukos and my 275 vanhook there last but definately not least all three should break my pb, we shall see this week im going to weigh em all on certified scale hopefully monday or tuesday! oh ps congrats go out to darryll crosby on his first 1000lb fruit grown off the 1133 demers! Tuesday, October 28 View Page here is a couple of fruit i picked sunday the 26th of october, they were still on the vine inching along, back one is the 1231 pukos x 1104 brinkley,front one is the 1133demers x the 1289 bosworth Tuesday, October 28 View Page nice stems on both humm what will they weigh???????? Tuesday, October 28 View Page here is a shot of the 1133 heading to the scales, we had to use certified truck scales to weigh fruit as my buddy had his digital scales loaned out to 4h group Tuesday, October 28 View Page here is the 1231 going to the scale Tuesday, October 28 View Page well i guess you could say i was dissapointed as my 1133 went light but a friend john vanhook and i had talked about the 1133 going light so oh well i guess, anyway its now my pb 961 lbs taped 365 0tt=1019 went 961 way light Tuesday, October 28 View Page here is a pic of some of the punkins at my shop were doing trick or treat! anyway the 1231 pukos also went light taped 347 ott =877 went 783 way light, but good news had one fruit go heavy the 275 vanhook taped 339 =819 went 863.5 so went heavy 275 grows rocks he he illpost pic later! Tuesday, October 28 View Page heck picked fruit sunday and got snow today 0ctober 28th fist snow in antartica west virginia Tuesday, October 28 View Page let it snow let it snow weeeeee! Tuesday, October 28 View Page yepp antartica has welcomed old man winter he he dang sure puts a damper on patch work! Thursday, October 30 View Page i had the cross on the 1231 pukos wrong i crossed it with the 1101 northrup should add some pretty orange and heavy genetics. Saturday, December 13 View Page i thought ide finally post a pic or to from are halloween display Saturday, December 13 View Page here is katie and my yougest misty getting ready to pass out candy kids loved the ags! Saturday, December 13 View Page not to shabby for government work lol Saturday, December 13 View Page boo here is my buddies girl friend playing the part of a witch1 the L L is the name of our shop double L Saturday, December 13 View Page he he this little slunger went heavy to the charts lol this was ole burrhead many years ago! god bless ya all!