Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 19 Entries. Monday, April 13 View Page Seed starting day! Shooting for 3-4 plants this year. Seed were filed, soaked and planted. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather. � Tuesday, April 14 View Page Getting a head start on my pumpkin plant placards. Might as well put my 3d printer to work too! � Sunday, April 19 View Page Did some soil testing today. Will be interesting to see how close these results are to what MSU provides. Hopefully it�s at least directionally correct. � Sunday, April 19 View Page N test results. � Sunday, April 19 View Page K test results. � Sunday, April 19 View Page P test results. � Tuesday, April 21 View Page My 1,578 Holland dropped its seed casing today. Looking good. � Wednesday, April 22 View Page Soil test back from MSU. � Wednesday, April 22 View Page Second soil test. This one is of my garden soil the previous one was from my compost. � Tuesday, April 28 View Page Almost time to intro them to the garden. Hopefully this weekend weather permitting. � Tuesday, April 28 View Page Holland 641 � Tuesday, April 28 View Page Langridge 666 � Tuesday, April 28 View Page Langridge 885 (Langridge 888 replacement) roughly 1 week behind the others. Should pop any day. Seeing signs of green! � Sunday, May 3 View Page Three of my four are planted. � Wednesday, May 6 View Page My 888 Langridge finally shedded it�s seed today and it popped out with three leaves! Hopefully a sign of good luck to come! � Wednesday, May 6 View Page 888 Langridge. Three leaf clover. � Wednesday, May 6 View Page My 885 Langridge will be ready for the garden soon. The weird this is it looks like it�s missing one of it main leafs. Will be interesting to see how this one progresses. � Friday, June 19 View Page Pollination day!!! First one of the season. Worried that it won�t take since the only male flower I had bloomed a day earlier. I picked it and stored it in the refrigerator hoping it will keep. Fingers crossed. � Sunday, June 21 View Page Second pollination of the season. This one is on my 641 Holland. It was pollinated with my 888 Langridge. �