Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 29 Entries. Monday, March 21 View Page No pictures to share...just making a space for later on. Some cabbage pictures will be soon...nothing special though. Just maybe that I grew too many...again! Saturday, April 16 View Page Yesterday I planted my seeds (2). Wednesday, June 15 View Page A little slow this year with the diary. Here are some cabbages...they didn't get much special treatment this year and have been thru windstorms and more.....The black stuff is free compost that the city makes from poo from the sewer plant....yes I know poo, but it takes a couple years to make and is certified by the top poo inspector.People line up every day to get it and big-wigs from 'round the world come to see how its made.I know it makes stuff grow! (and does not smell either!- but makes your hands very black to touch it)Plus they add other compost stuff to it. Wednesday, June 15 View Page This plant is from Jeff Clark-Thanks Jeff...sorry I can't recall the size but it is 1300 something. Will get it right later. Wednesday, June 15 View Page This plant is from my pumpkin from last year, appprox 1200 with parents Bourne 800 something and 400 something-sorry about the lack of exact data. Anyways,it is growing very well. Saturday, June 25 View Page My own (est. 1200-2010) with some male flowers. This plant is doing very well in this spot.Notice the porch I added to the house..... Saturday, June 25 View Page Some candy hybrid onions doing well also. I very highly recommend anyone who likes onions to grow these(FROM SEED ONLY!!). They are sooo sweet like the onions found on A&W hamburgers,and you could eat one like an apple,but I find my stomach seems to bark back if I do....just too much.The best part is that they keep well,and I am still eating last years onions and have some that haven't even tried to sprout yet. I am making seed from them(yes I know they are hybrid). Thursday, June 30 View Page Quite a surprise today but the weather has turned for the better! An early female on the 1353 Clark 2010 (1544 Revier '09 x 1348 Hester '07) I hope this plant likes the Atlantic Canadian soil and climate! Wednesday, July 13 View Page The rock band U2 is wrapping up their 360 world tour in my city (Moncton New Brunswick, Canada)at the end of July (30th) and would have started on June 30 ,2009 and will have been seen by over 7 million people(which is pretty good even if you don't know who they are) Here is a picture of the lead singer watching over my patch. I call him "Garden Bono". Wednesday, July 20 View Page Some cabbage pictures and you can also see the giant tomato plants(seeds from Tuija-Finland-thanks) on every pole from trees cut in the woods out back (strong support needed). This year,I made sure every tomato plant was separate from each other hoping to isolate the blight that was a problem last year. In the background is a bus....I heard a big bang and around the corner came a smoking,limping scoolbus with people inside.It sat there with some obvious engine problems but after cooling awhile,the (lady) driver started it up and it smoked some more and off it went.Time for service.... Friday, July 29 View Page Pumpkins are nice but giant cabbage plants make any garden look super-sized! As you can see, in between the giant tomato plants are some really nice looking cabbages. Some close ups in the next picture compared to a 2 liter sized pepsi bottle(which is at least a foot high I'm guessing). Friday, July 29 View Page We have had so much rain mixed in with the sun, these cabbages are in paradise and haven't had to lay down at all in the heat of the day. Friday, July 29 View Page Here you can see the spread on my main favorite(best spot) pumpkin with a covering of remay along the main and over a small but hopefully promising pumpkin. Seed is from Jeff Clark...a 1355 I think it is. Friday, July 29 View Page Here is the other pumpkin from my own seed that grew a 1200 est. last year. Not as well a groomed spot(earth wise) but still is doing well. Saturday, August 6 View Page This is the 1353 Clark and it was only the size of a tennis ball one week ago. Not shown is the bandage on the stem where one week ago, I lifted the vines to move it and snapped the stem (but not completely). I think I am still in the game with this and with two months of growing, anything can happen! (another cabbage picture is next) Saturday, August 6 View Page I am really proud of my cabbages and they really stand out this year. Pepsi bottle is a 2 liter.(about a foot high). Next picture is a giant tomato....... Saturday, August 6 View Page Giant tomato (3.24 Osmala) is starting to put on weight. Why grow little tomatos when you can grow big ones? Saturday, August 6 View Page A little slow...is the est.1200 Prosser Tuesday, August 16 View Page Pumpkin number one (preferred spot in the garden). Just cut off smaller pumpkin further down the main this morning.It seemed like a fairly wet day to do so. Tuesday, August 16 View Page Pumpkin number two is almost as big. Seed is from my big one last year. You can see I'm growing on pallets and I did read some comments against that but if it helps get my pumpkins out of the garden in the fall,it will be worth it. Tuesday, August 16 View Page Cabbage are heading up...my knee in the picture. Thursday, August 25 View Page More cabbages pics....(since thats the only thing thats doing very well this year!). Seems to be forming a nice head. Thursday, August 25 View Page And another. Every cabbage is different, and I have a couple that just grew weird, and two that I treated very badly since they were extras, are now behind the others, but have really huge leaves. Next pic shows a cabbage disease that I don't have a name for but could make one up pretty easy..... Thursday, August 25 View Page This is some kind of a rot that happens (apparently) when water sits in a valley and can't get out, which also may or may not be made worse with the pesticide Sevin added to the mix. I expect a giant hole hole where the leaf will fall away.If anyone has an exact science on this,please let me know. Thursday, August 25 View Page One of my giant tomatoes at about 16 inches diameter. I can't believe the blight hasn't taken all my tomatoes down yet, but spacing must have helped for me this year. Thursday, September 8 View Page The blob. Seems to have no belly button. What a character! Monday, September 26 View Page Largest tomato to date at 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) These tomatos are super sweet eating as well! Sunday, November 6 View Page A picture of a bare head of cabbage ready to cut for kraut on a 25 pound scale. Sunday, November 6 View Page These cabbages are just like a "brain" inside with very little core at all. There will be very little waste here.