Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 30 Entries. Sunday, March 11 View Page Friday I started a new experiment before the start of my season. I started 4 of my seeds using PumpkinPro, Myco Blast, Root Blast, and one for Control. I wanted to see how the Myco Blast did against the PumpkinPro. Sunday, March 11 View Page An aerial view. Tuesday, March 13 View Page For some reason the site won't let me upload the aerial image. In other news the Control seed broke soil yesterday morning, and the PumpkinPro broke soil yesterday evening. Wednesday, March 14 View Page The Myco Blast seed broke soil this morning. I am still waiting for the Root Blast to come up. Thursday, March 15 View Page The RootBlast seed broke the soil this afternoon. Thursday, March 22 View Page These are the plants in the order in which they sprouted. Thursday, March 22 View Page This is what they looked like when I took them out of the pots. I put the best side of each of them up. Thursday, March 22 View Page This is the best side shot of the Control plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page Here is the bottom of the Control plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page This is the best side of the PumpkinPro plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page This is the shot of the bottom of the PumpkinPro plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page This is the best side shot of the Myco Blast plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page Here is a bottom view of the Myco Blast plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page Here is the best side of the RootBlast plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page Here is the bottom of the RootBlast plant. Thursday, March 22 View Page For this little experiment that I did I used the seeds from my pumpkin last year. I used a soil mix of 1/3 each or perlite, peat moss, and vermiculite. The Control and the Myco Blast plants looked the best. The Control plant broke soil 2 full days before the Myco Blast plant, and about 10 hours before the PumpkinPro plant. I will just say that the RootBlast plant did not do so well. I will not use that for the vegetable plants this year. I will not make a suggestion on what to use. I only did this because I was wondering how they would stack up to eachother. Thursday, March 22 View Page This year I am going to try to make my own version of Dunkel's Original Tomato Plant Fortifier. I have all the ingredients. I just need to figure out the recipe. If I succeed I will call it Gritch's Tomato Food. Thursday, March 22 View Page I am also going to try to make Dunkel's Devestating Giant Pumpkin & Squash Fortifier. If I succeed I will call it Gritch's Pumpkin Food. Tuesday, May 8 View Page Start one of my 650 (estimated) seeds, and a 921.5 Gerhardt seed on May 5th. Same day I try to start on every year. I also started some tomato seeds: 3.308 Diaz, 4.20 Diaz, 7.18 Harp, 7.33 Hunt, 5.51 MegaMarv, 6.5 Delicious, and a 6.25 Brutus Magnum. Tuesday, May 15 View Page Put the 921.5 Gerhardt into the second hoop house. I will use this seed as the pollinator. I will plant the other seed out in 2 days. Monday, May 28 View Page A photo of the new hoop house I built for the pumpkins this year. This is the one for my main plant. Monday, May 28 View Page This is the one for my pollinator plant. Friday, June 8 View Page I figure I am about 8 days behind where I was this time last year. No biggie. Both plants are on the ground now. Friday, June 8 View Page All tomato plants but 1 are in the hoop house hardening off. I will plant them on Tuesday or Wednesday. That just leaves one late bloomer in the germination tank for a few more weeks. Friday, June 8 View Page I had to dry the amino acid a bit. Now that it is dry I can finish my Gritch's Tomato Food, and Gritch's Pumpkin Food. Time to test them out. Saturday, July 14 View Page I think the squash bugs did me in this year. First plant was lost to heat, and the second one looks like YVD. The squash bugs were bad earlier this year. I will try to get some pictures up tomorrow. Looks like this year will just be about tomatoes. Wednesday, July 25 View Page The plant stopped growing. All pumpkins that were pollinated all aborted. The younger leaves all started to turn yellow. Wednesday, July 25 View Page Some of the older leaves started to look like this. Only reason I can think of is squash bugs. Next year I will spray earlier, and spray the fence next to an "organic" growing neighbor. Friday, September 21 View Page This is my biggest tomato for the year. It weighs 3.49 lbs. All the megablooms got fried earlier in the season. Friday, September 21 View Page Or 3 lbs. 7.9 ounces.