Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 22 Entries. Saturday, January 3 View Page How many growers feel like '09 is going to be their dream season, like I do. Thanks to Jeff Lawrence, Jeff Zoellner, Mark Lombari and Seed Outlet, I'm seeing so much orange, Linus is sure to visit me. Only I'm not too keen on the idea of the spirit of The Great Pumpkin flying off inside my personal best. Here's my line-up for the upcoming '09 season. Saturday, January 3 View Page Insert first trumpet chorus here. Saturday, January 3 View Page Insert first trumpet chorus here. Saturday, January 3 View Page 801 Lawrence 08 (713 Lawrence x self) from 1074 Calia Saturday, January 3 View Page Second trumpet chrous Saturday, January 3 View Page 681 Zoellner (907 Van Hook x 1290 Poirier) Saturday, January 3 View Page One more trumpet chrous Saturday, January 3 View Page OK, for some reason, the photos aren't uploading. But my all super orange line-up for the '09 season are: 801 Lawrence (713 Lawrence x self) 681 Zoellner (907 VanHook x 1290 Poirier) 769 Lombardi (1273 Howard x self) 1125 Lombardi (769 Lombardi x 998 Pukos) xxxx xxxxxxx (xxxx x xxxx) My mystery seed that is either going to make me or break me. Wouldn't you like to know what it is? You'll have endure the pain of reading my diary until the end of the '09 to find-out! Saturday, January 3 View Page Goal for this season? Grow a 1000 lber. in 300 square feet of space, perhaps even 280. If not, at least I won't have to cut the grass in those spots. Saturday, January 3 View Page Thought you might like to see the first pumpkin I grew. Saturday, January 3 View Page This me today. Da, it's past my bedtime, it takes a day for photos to post. Saturday, January 3 View Page I owe it all to my Father. Saturday, January 3 View Page Here's his baby picture. Saturday, January 3 View Page I'll get the photos of my other seed up when I find-out which ones I didn't post tomorrow. It's taken me 3 years to crack some mysteries behind growing. You know the growing world is in trouble when I start clowning and joking. For the first time, I'm planting early, April 15th because this season should be a long nap in a hammock. Why not? Friday, June 12 View Page Is this starting early enough? Tuesday, June 30 View Page I can't wait for the growing season to get started. But wait, looking at the calendar, it did a couple of months ago. Is it really going into summer? With all the cold and cool, unheard of June frosts, days of rain on end and no sun I couldn't tell. Then the big one, last Thursday we were clipped by a tornado as it came down and touched down just South of us. I felt the house shaking when the sirens went off and talk about a flip-out when I looked outside and I was in the Wizard of Oz, running around, "It's a Twister!" That was a dark, rotating cloud! It sounded like a roaring freight train the whole time. Luckily, we must have been the first grid they restored power to, because it was back on in 24 hours. But I don't think Jutras has anything to worry about with the 1 plant and 4 ft. mainvine I have left. But I'm cloning the tip of a secondary I found laying over the top of the fence. Hey, the way this year has been going? Trick or Treaters wearing their bathing suits and running the air conditioning full blast on Christmas Day might not be that far fetched. There's hope yet. Even Zukle has been too quiet and that can't be a good sign for the state. Seems Michigan is going down like the Edmund Fitzgerald and we won't even get a Gordan Lightfoot song out of the deal. Is anyone in Michigan doing well this year? Anyone who isn't growing their plants in a high intensity lighted bomb shelter, that is? Tuesday, June 30 View Page My Zoellner 681 clone attempt, salavged from the storm. Tuesday, June 30 View Page Just when I bought a new orange truck too! Tuesday, June 30 View Page Even our cat was upset when he discovered our patch is gone. It was one of his favorite spots catch mice in at night and now it's gone. Which means, there won't be 14 months of pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, pumpkin stew. And he loves pumpkin bread. Sorry, I don't know what to do anymore, except laugh. Do you know that point where something has just gotten stupid? That's the point trying to grow AGs in Michigan this season is at for me. Tuesday, October 6 View Page I tried to get some older leaves to show how the addition of canola oil seems to be working. Tuesday, October 6 View Page The grape leaves are impressing me the most Tuesday, October 6 View Page It's been raining for 2 weeks, so the photos are a little dark