Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 50 Entries. Monday, April 1 View Page I might have started a few seeds yesterday. think all the overtime at work has gone to my head. Monday, April 1 View Page started making raised beds for the garden. under orders to make the garden neat this year. so far so good. Tuesday, April 2 View Page built a 3x32 raised bed today and a bridge to go over the trench to the patch. slowly getting there. Wednesday, April 3 View Page Trying a new idea on cold frames. 3 sides foil backed insulation and one with plastic have foam insulation panel to put over plastic side to retain heat at night. Monday, April 22 View Page raised beds are in place just need to be filled, patches are ready to go, and 150 sopt is marked off. My son is even gonna grow a plant this year. let the madness begin! Tuesday, April 23 View Page so after an eventful seed starting fiasco My lineup has been altered somewhat. Both my 1770 liebers are gone, an 870 wolf is gone and the bubble with the remaining 870's is MIA (sorry Andy) I am left with 1498 werner at 3rd leaf and ready to go in the ground. I germed the following in the paper towel method (5) 388 Langley (1054 van Hook x 1566 Rodonis) 1421 Boyce (1634 Werner X 991 Urena) 2nd 1498 Werner (1495 Stelts x 1634 Werner) The following are still in the paper towel and have not sprouted 1054 Van Hook (1566 Rodonis x 1450 Wallace) 1145.5 Van Hook ( 1161 Rodonis x 1450 wallace) 723 Kaczenski (988 Janowiak x 1059 Vincent Mcgill) Thursday, April 25 View Page 1498 Werner went in the patch today . Monday, April 29 View Page 1135* jutras 12 picture for Benny Monday, April 29 View Page patch is populated now. in one hoop i have (2) 388 Langley. In another I have 1145.5 Van Hook and Super Secret seed. In 3rd hoop is 1498 Werner which is starting to grow now after being in the patch for few days. My son put 1498 Werner and 388 Langley in his hoop. Only thing left now is 150 Sq foot plant. it will be either 388 Langley or 1054 Van Hook. Saturday, May 4 View Page This 1498 sure looks comfy in here. Monday, May 6 View Page Tonights match up: My Face vs Broadfork And the winner is......... Broadfork!!!!! Monday, May 6 View Page Flat Norm stopped by and said if these stumps were gone your patch could be sooo much bigger. So i told him to have at it. because I aint that ambitious. Monday, May 6 View Page Boy he works fast. I'll never doubt his ability again. Tuesday, May 7 View Page Planted (2) 388 Langley's in the 150 Patch. GAME ON! Saturday, May 11 View Page expanded the patch on the left side, will put cushaw squash here . Saturday, May 11 View Page Flat Norm's super secret brew Friday, May 17 View Page pulled hoop off 1145.5 van hook and the secret seed. these 2 have been sharing hoop. it was the hoop with the foil backed insulation. the plants were tilting towards the light so i figured full sun would help today. Well a woodchuck was waiting in the shadows. I came home from work for dinner and to close up hoops, found both plants mangled. missing the full leaves, the grow tips seem untouched. but plants are definaitely in bad shape. Sent out an SOS email and hopefully a local grower has a backup he dont need. will start some other seeds tonight after work just incase. Saturday, May 18 View Page set out trap for woodchuck. soaked 899 Pennington, 1258.5 Menting, 908.8 lovelace, 441 Barenie, 1286.5 Daletas and 602.5 Linford. First 2 plants to first true leaf go in woodchuck slaughter spot. they can fight it out there. Sunday, May 19 View Page Flat Norm stirred up some more of his secret brew for me. Monday, May 20 View Page Started a bunch of 159.5 Barber melons today Also direct sowed yellow watermelon seeds Monday, May 20 View Page Here's the 1290.5 Helsel, complete with groundhog damage. walked right past the trap, ate all my daughters beans, ripped more of her flowers up, and helped himself to the pkn plant. looks like apples don't work at all. So trap is now baited with mangos. Monday, May 20 View Page Squash from Joe Post, still not 100% on seed but seems it may be 609* Jarvis. Monday, May 20 View Page here is my sons 388 Langley (left side) and 1498 werner (right side) Monday, May 20 View Page Here are the 2 cushaws I planted yesterday Monday, May 20 View Page My (2) 388 langleys left one obviously is the better plant here. Sunday, May 26 View Page 1498 werner out of its hoop. Sunday, May 26 View Page 1498 Werner stump. I guess no worries about a foamer on this one. Wednesday, May 29 View Page stupid woodchuck came out of hiding with a vengence. took almost all of my squash plant includng the tip of the main. there are 2 sides emerging near the end that i will choose from for new main. Thursday, May 30 View Page 1498 werner became woodchuck lunch today. Set up a funnel fence with trap at fence convergance point. hopefully he doesnt learn to go around Friday, May 31 View Page woodchuck to a few chunks from my son's plants. Tuesday, June 4 View Page wood chuck visited again. walked right past trap and helped himself to evry plant in the garden. only thing spared was tomatoes and cushaw squash. pkns are pretty much done. squash is unrecoverable i think. 2 conibear traps are on order and will be here withing the next week. Too little too late though. this marks the end of my 2013 season. Thursday, June 6 View Page went for a walk to day and found wht appears to be a woodchuck hole just over in my neighbors yard. thing is this is on the opposite side that i have seen the woodchuck,so perhaps I have multiple visitors. explains the amount of damage. moved the have a heart trap to right in front of his hole. hopefully it will be full tonight. Now I just need to find the other woodchuck den on the other side of the property. My order of conibear traps can't get here fast enough. Friday, June 7 View Page set one conibear trap up at lunch. game on Thursday, June 13 View Page SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Friday, June 14 View Page Woodchuck got revenge last night, 1498 stripped again, 388 got hit too. even my sons plant was chewed on. went bush whacking and found his hole on the right side of property. Friday, June 14 View Page Mr. Woodchuck come out and play!!!!!!! Friday, June 14 View Page forgot to mention caught a fisher cat in conibear trap on left side of property. Bummer because he could have cleaned out the whole family. Friday, June 14 View Page I guess he wanted to come out and play. Feeling a lil better now. still another out there i think though. traps are still set. Tuesday, June 18 View Page pulled 1290.5 Helsel and planted (2) 66 Baggs marrows in that spot. Woodchuck was just too much for this plant. Oh well pushing forward. Friday, July 12 View Page 4 peppers, 4 competition tomatoes and 5 eating tomatoes spent the afternoon with uncle Dunkel. Friday, September 13 View Page you know its been a bad season when you need to weed whack the garden to harvest tomatoes Thursday, October 10 View Page Been busy getting patch and garden cleaned up. Saturday, October 12 View Page pumpkin patch soil test Saturday, October 12 View Page Squash patch soil test Friday, October 25 View Page spread a couple yards of mulched leaves and grass clippings on one of the spots. this is before tilling in. Friday, October 25 View Page this is after tilling in. Friday, October 25 View Page one side of the patch area is complete, need to do the other 1200 sq feet Sunday, November 10 View Page gotta love german food Monday, November 11 View Page Germans really know how to eat. this also had a full chicken breast at the bottom that i already started to tear into. I could definitely get used to this Friday, December 27 View Page Got a new toy yesterday