Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 66 Entries. Wednesday, April 30 View Page snow covered patch the day we planted. Wednesday, April 30 View Page seeds Wednesday, April 30 View Page grow light in garage still to cold to put them outside. Wednesday, April 30 View Page filed edges soaked for 3 hours and planted under grow light with heating pad under them. Sunday, May 18 View Page huts for out side Snow this week. Sunday, May 18 View Page planted both sperry and northrup today with huts. Snow coming this week I will get warming lights in a couple days. Sunday, May 18 View Page Sperry planted today with the warming hut Wednesday, May 21 View Page getting started Wednesday, May 21 View Page looking good broke through in 6 days alot better than last year Wednesday, May 21 View Page Sperry breaking ground Wednesday, May 21 View Page Planted 05-18-08 and a nice warm home Sunday, May 25 View Page Testing warming huts for the plants in my driveway. Test worked good just in time frost tonight. Sunday, May 25 View Page 05-24-08 Testing warming huts for the plants in my driveway. Test worked good just in time frost tonight. Sunday, May 25 View Page First I tried a timer but couldn't control the heat well Thermostat keeps the plants 75.5 to 82 all night. Sunday, May 25 View Page Northrunp looking ok after 6 days in the ground. But it started with only one cot leaf. Sunday, May 25 View Page Sperry looking good after 6 days in the ground. good thing for the heat lamps. Sunday, May 25 View Page second cooler with 60 watt light bulb. my wife and friends think I'm crazy they just don't understand. Sunday, May 25 View Page A BIG Thanks to David and Scott. David for giving me the idea for the cooler's and Scott for giving me the coolers. Without them my children would have went cold for another season. Thanks Guy's Sunday, May 25 View Page Big thanks to Billy for helping wire my thermostat so I did not burn my house down. Friday, May 30 View Page Helped grasshopper take some trees down today for more early light. who cares if they were on someone elses property Ha/Ha. Saturday, May 31 View Page Sperry looking good after a week of warm nights in the coolers. She got her first real rain today. Saturday, May 31 View Page Sperry top look. Saturday, May 31 View Page Northrup top look. Sunday, June 1 View Page Northrup Looking good with only on Cote leaf she has come back with the warm nights under the coolers. Sunday, June 8 View Page Looking good after our first real hot day and wilting bad yesterday. Sunday, June 8 View Page Hope fully this week my main will start Sunday, June 8 View Page Sperry looking good wilted hard yesterday and coming back from the burnt leaf from my light bulb keeping it warm. Sunday, June 8 View Page another look at the sperry. Sunday, June 15 View Page good groth this week but main vine is going the wrong way I will have to wait until it hits the ground. Sunday, June 15 View Page Another look at the sperry. I also put up wind break while I'm gone for the week camping. Sunday, June 15 View Page Lost one leaf to wind this week on the northrup but it is doing ok. Sunday, June 15 View Page another look at the northrup. I'm intrusting my babies to grasshopper for the week while I'm gone Monday, June 23 View Page Just getting back from a week away patch is a mess but no damage to the plants thanks to Grasshoppa taking care of them for the week a big thanks to him. Monday, June 23 View Page wind protection I put up before leaving for the week good thing nothing but wind and rain for the past week while I was gone Monday, June 23 View Page this one is almost hitting the ground should be in the next few days if we could get some warm weather. the rest of the week is more rain and cool at night. Monday, June 23 View Page another look at the wind protection. Monday, June 23 View Page another look at northrup. I will spend most of today in the patch if weather permits. Wednesday, June 25 View Page Finally got some time to clean up the patch after all of the rain. I'm gonna have to re-direct main vines they are going off at 90 degrees. Wednesday, June 25 View Page Cleaned up patch and put new wind fence up. My wife thaught I was crazy gettting out in the patch at 5:30 in the morning. Wednesday, July 2 View Page I was glade to see my first female at about six feet. plants are starting to look really good. Saturday, July 5 View Page plants are looking ok side vines aren't going as fast as I'd like but I have a female at about 6 feet Saturday, July 5 View Page Looking good with a female at about 10 feet Saturday, July 5 View Page Looking good after five days with the female should be polinating in abut five days. Saturday, July 5 View Page Zach here is look at the Bees. Saturday, July 5 View Page Sperry. The leaf's on my plants are big but the side vines are not going as fast as I'd Like. Wednesday, July 9 View Page Pollinated Sperry today with grasshoppa. I will subm. pic. later. Saturday, July 12 View Page Polinated first female on Northrup Monday, July 14 View Page Polinated second female on Sperry Thursday, July 17 View Page 1st female on Sperry on day 7 at 14.5 around and looking good. Thursday, July 17 View Page northrup at day 3 I can't tell if it took yet but it looks ok. Thursday, July 17 View Page put palets down with grasshoppa today. First time trying this hopefully it covers the palet. I hope I'm not getting ahead of myself. Thursday, July 17 View Page made some Tea to water with. Thursday, July 17 View Page Good looking Tea. Friday, July 18 View Page Put out palets for the northrup also. Friday, July 18 View Page second look at northrup with palets Thursday, July 24 View Page first sperry day 15 32 cir. going good but have stem splits not into the pumkin getting a little worried. Thursday, July 24 View Page Second fruit on sperry day five 13 inches splits on stem also. Thursday, July 24 View Page a look at the growth of a couple weeks on the sperry Thursday, July 24 View Page Really nervous about these splits if this is normal or not? the pumpkin is groing about 3-6 inches a day for the past five days. Its been raining alot here. Thursday, July 24 View Page Another look at splits on my sperry plant. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Matt this was hard to do thanks for the help. But I started to cut this 75 lbs. off it slowed down to 1 inch in cir. a day. Tuesday, August 5 View Page My new sperry pumpkin at day 15 39.5 inch hopefully this one continues on its 3.5 inch a day. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Northrup 1 at approx. 12 days Grasshoppa is putting his money on this one it has a big plant behind it approx 400 sq. feet with some leaves at four squar feet. Tuesday, August 5 View Page Northrup 2 I'm putting my money on this one but it's on a side vine. hopefully. Friday, August 29 View Page Sperry going very slow with odd shape 08-29-08 Friday, August 29 View Page This one that grasshoppa said would do good is going to pass my sperry in the next couple days it's doing ok with about 11 to 15 pounds a day. I think grasshoppa has a secret he isn't giving up.