Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 32 Entries. Tuesday, January 1 View Page Happy New year Everyone ! Tuesday, January 1 View Page Here is my best onion, its the only one that germinated so i started a few more off. hopefully they germinate :) Tuesday, January 8 View Page Here is my latest school project... we had to make the truck portion of a train that would be able to pull 1000lbs and had be gasoline electric powered. It pulled 1000lbs no problem, i was the first in the school to ever actually pull 1000lbs ..lol, i used a 120volt 1hp hay elevator motor connected to a 10 hp generator... worked like dream :) Saturday, February 16 View Page Here is a pic of one my cabbages, there is couple that are bigger than this one but this is there average size. i potted them up into 4 inch pots this morning. I started my apprenticeship as a mechanic at the local ford garage on Tuesday, Im in the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)so i go to Durham collage on Mondays and Fridays and ill have my level 1 by the time i finish high school in June. I also got G2 drivers license, so Im on the road now :)..lol Saturday, February 23 View Page heres a shot of the Patch this morning, a few more months and i should be able to see ground again .lol Saturday, April 5 View Page Here is my green house that i made.its still not 100% finished but its still 30*C in there during the day. i still have to hook the heating up to it so i bring the plants inside the house at night and put them back out in there during the day. Saturday, April 5 View Page Here is a picture of the inside, the orange cables are the heating cables that i have yet to hook to the woodstove which will pump hot water through them and heat it at night. Saturday, April 5 View Page Here is the woodstove that will heat the greenhouse at night once i get it hooked up.. this also heats our house. Tuesday, April 8 View Page Here is my biggest cabbage .. all the others are only about half this size but seem to be starting to grow faster now. Tuesday, April 8 View Page Here are my 2 watermelons, they broke the surface a week ago today. and seem to be doing ok. plant to the left is the 211 leonard 07 and right is the 194 hunt 06 Tuesday, April 8 View Page Heres the patch now .. most of the snow has melted over the past week and now parts of it are flooded. its got to dry out allot before i can begin any work. Saturday, April 12 View Page Snows almost completely gone so there is water everywhere .. time to take the atv out! .. this was in a local gravel pit i went to today Sunday, April 13 View Page Here is my lineup for this year.. 901 hunt, 1170 powers, 772 poirier and 1226 kline .. back ups are 1290 poirier, 814 leach and 592 leach Tuesday, April 22 View Page Planted my Biggest cabbage out side today .. this one is an O/S cross that i have had going since January, the rest of the O/S cross cabbages were started last week. Tuesday, April 22 View Page Here is my biggest Northern giant cabbage, it will go outside as in the few few weeks. Thursday, April 24 View Page Stared off the pumpkins today, filed and soaked for 11 hrs in warm water, then placed in germination chamber at 85*F Seeds are : 901 Hunt 07 (1093Hunt x 898Knauss) 1170 Powers 05 (763Biss x 664.5Ligget) 1226 Kline 07 (1250Kline x 670Daigle) 772 Poirier (500Northrup x 1332 Werner) 1290 Poirier (772 Poirier x 500 Northrup) .. back up for 772 other backups will be started in a few days. Thursday, April 24 View Page Here is a shot of the pots inside the germination chamber. Sunday, April 27 View Page Patch prep is pretty much done now, i added 50 lbs of humic acid over 4 plating sites yesterday and then cultivated the entire patch this morning down to approximately 7 inches deep, one side goes down deeper than the other so i had to over lap each pass. you can still see some of the leaves i added last fall. Sunday, April 27 View Page Here is the patch all done and cultivated, not going to till it this year. i figure the cultivators did a good enough job. Sunday, May 11 View Page Plants appear to be doing ok, 1226 kline germinated very slowly y but then died so the 1134 landry is its replacement. hope to get the plants in the ground Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Turned 17 today :).. Thanks everyone for the happy birthdays ..lol Wednesday, May 14 View Page Plants are doing ok .. been slowly putting plants outside over the past few days between catching up on field work.. been tractor less for over a week but the new one finally came yesterday .. Newholland 6010, 100hp Monday, June 2 View Page Weather is finally warming up here and plants are beginning to pick up the pace. This is the 901 hunt. Monday, June 2 View Page 1134 landry - this plat was started a week later than all the others and is the biggest plant but has fewer leaves. Monday, June 2 View Page 772 poirier - smallest plant so far leaves are only a few inches across Monday, June 2 View Page 1170 powers Monday, June 2 View Page Heres my second biggest cabbage at 2 ft 5 inches across Monday, June 2 View Page This is my biggest cabbage at 2 feet 7 inches across, this one is also growing tall as well as wide unlike the others that are just growing wide Thursday, July 31 View Page finally got a pumpkin on the 901 hunt its on a sidevine though but oh well its better than nothing and there is not much sign of anything coming on the new main, day 10 today was 23 " Friday, August 22 View Page Well things are not good on the pumpkins side of things this year, but the cabbages still seem to be doing ok there both around 5 feet across Friday, August 22 View Page Cabbage Friday, August 22 View Page Both of the biggest Friday, August 22 View Page the cabbage in the background that looks a mess is one that split open, so i left it continue and now it has a whole bunch of stalks coming out of it .. will post pics when i clear the weeds away from it.