Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 70 Entries. Thursday, June 3 View Page It's that time agin,this will be my second year trying to grow a big pumpkin in Florida. Thursday, June 3 View Page This is at three weeks,three of them look really good Thursday, June 3 View Page A pic. of our vegetable garden Thursday, June 3 View Page Here is my pumpkin patch after adding mushroom compost Thursday, June 3 View Page The patch in progress silt fence up and getting ready for shade cloth. Thursday, June 3 View Page This is one of my atlantic plants about to find a new home. Thursday, June 3 View Page Another atlantic going in the patch Thursday, June 3 View Page My 1689 Jutras Wednesday, June 9 View Page This is my 1689 Jutras plant,it is by my best looking plant so far. Wednesday, June 9 View Page This is one of the Dill's Atlantic plants, it is starting to put on some male flowers. Wednesday, June 9 View Page Another one of the Atlantic plants,this is the strongest of the three. Tuesday, June 15 View Page Main vine split open this weekend on my 1689 plant,it happen some time Saturday.It looks really bad but so far does not seem to be effecting the plant at all it is still growing about 12" since the injury. Tuesday, June 15 View Page The 1689 jutrus three days after the main split. Tuesday, June 15 View Page Installed drip system,the atlantic plants are starting to get secondaries. Tuesday, June 15 View Page Another atlantic,starting to grow out from under the shade hoops.Ill be glad when my shade cloth gets here so i can stop extending the temporary hoops. Saturday, June 19 View Page This is the first of our sunflowers to bloom this year. Saturday, June 19 View Page sun flowers Saturday, June 19 View Page 1689 Jutrus about 8ft. still growing. Saturday, June 19 View Page #1 Atlantic plant is about 9 feet long,My shade cloth came today i will be installing it tomorrow it has been close to the 100f. all week. Sunday, June 20 View Page New shade cloth instaled today,I can already tell a difference Sunday, June 20 View Page picture from the inside Sunday, June 20 View Page From the end. Thursday, June 24 View Page New toy Thursday, June 24 View Page This should come in handy Saturday, June 26 View Page I might just get to pollinate something soon. Saturday, June 26 View Page Another female on a different plant. Saturday, June 26 View Page I am going to put thease babies where my garden was, I know it's late in the year but it don't cool off here till the end of October. Saturday, June 26 View Page I've have all most everything but a pumpkin in this area maybe i'll get some good jackolanterns out of it. Wednesday, June 30 View Page Today is my birthday,I pollinated the first female that has opened this morning I hope it was successful. Wednesday, June 30 View Page Another angle Thursday, July 1 View Page Made a compost tea brewer today its my first time trying to make compost tea we will see how it goes. Thursday, July 1 View Page Looks good so far seems to be working. Thursday, July 1 View Page 1 Day after pollination,looks like it doubled in size over night. Tuesday, July 6 View Page Six day's old Tuesday, July 6 View Page Patch is starting to fill in. Tuesday, July 6 View Page one of my plants has started to look disformed at the end of the main Monday, July 12 View Page Heres what we had waiting on us when we got back from Louisiana,grown a little while we were gone. 11 days old Monday, July 12 View Page Making some improvements in the patch today - pulling up all the store bought plants and replacing them with some good seeds that I got from Billy and Paul at our pumpkin meeting in LA. I might actually have a chance at growing a Gulf Coast Giant Pumpkin this year. Also adding about 10 yards of compost to the patch. Took some dirt samples can’t wait to get the results back from it hopefully I will be in the right direction. Thanks again for the advice and the great seeds! Monday, July 12 View Page I Finally got my original soil analysis test back sent it off over a month ago. Every thing looks better than what I was expecting going to add a few things but that’s about all. Monday, July 12 View Page soil analysis Monday, July 12 View Page pollinated the 1689 today Wednesday, July 14 View Page I rented this dump trailor picked up two loads of composted horse manure about 8 yards. Wednesday, July 14 View Page Now for the fun part moveing it in to the patch one wheelbarrel load at a time. Sunday, July 18 View Page 1689,seven days old looking good nice shape,long stem. Wednesday, July 21 View Page Took first measurements of the 1689 today circumference is 29" still looking good Sunday, July 25 View Page 1689,fourteen days old circumference is 36" we named him little Joe. Sunday, July 25 View Page Stem end of Joe Sunday, July 25 View Page This is our patch protector he lives in the corner of the shade cloth,he does not have a name yet. Thursday, July 29 View Page Little Joe is still slowly gaining OTT is 103" eighteen days old. Tuesday, August 3 View Page extended my new patch today it is now 75ft.X30ft. Tuesday, August 3 View Page Added some more compost I am going to wait a couple of days for the grass to die and till it again. Tuesday, August 3 View Page One of my new plants this one is in the patch with the shade cloth, looking good. Tuesday, August 3 View Page Another new addition to the shade cloth area. Tuesday, August 3 View Page This is my 232 Overstreet it is in my new expanded patch. Tuesday, August 3 View Page This plant is one of the Atlantic Giants that I got from Lowe's but it sure has taken off and looks really good. Wednesday, August 18 View Page This is my 1689 pumpkin ott.is 147" about 75lb. still inching along. Wednesday, August 18 View Page This plant we named sunny,because the hot sun here does not seem to affect it at all it is 30ftX30ft Wednesday, August 18 View Page This is one of the pumpkins I have set on my sunny plant it is 9 days old. Wednesday, August 18 View Page My 813 wolf plant looking good. Saturday, August 28 View Page This is a picture of our front yard yesterday evening when we got home 5 plus inches in under 1 hour. Saturday, August 28 View Page Sustained a lot of wind damage to my smaller plants,most of the water is gone still really wet in the patch. Wednesday, October 13 View Page Sea of green 813 wolf Wednesday, October 13 View Page 813 wolf pollinated on 10/8/2010 about 25ft. on main. Wednesday, October 13 View Page 300 Schnicker Wednesday, October 13 View Page Stem end of 300 Schnicker Thursday, October 21 View Page 300 Schnicker ott. 170 Thursday, October 21 View Page 813 Wolf off to a good start Thursday, October 21 View Page They are out growing my shade house Friday, November 5 View Page Loaded and on our way to the scale. Friday, November 5 View Page Its no record but it is our personal best 174lbs.