Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 24 Entries. Tuesday, February 10 View Page patch is just below driveway Wednesday, February 11 View Page Hit& Miss engine I am working on, hope to have it running well to take to a few shows this year. Thursday, February 12 View Page Only about 8 in. snow in my patch compared to over 2 ft. at this time last year. Thursday, February 12 View Page No snow banks here like farmergal has. I think I only plowed the driveway twice. Only getting one inch at time with very little drifting. Thursday, February 12 View Page I don't see any pumpkins growing here, but they do have a garden somewhere on the white house lawn. Sunday, February 15 View Page Cutting ice on a pond near by on FEB 7 Sunday, February 15 View Page Ice blocks were 16 in. thick, they were loaded with an elevator on to trailers. Sunday, February 15 View Page Load of ice ready to be hauled to the ice shed. Sunday, February 15 View Page Ice shed full and ready to shut the door. Ice is used later in the summer to cool beverages at local events. Sunday, February 15 View Page Some nice seeds with orange genes that I got from farmergal. I will grow some of them this year and post the results here. Sunday, February 15 View Page Some great seeds I got from agteacher. Lots of great crosses with these seeds. I will post results. Sunday, February 15 View Page I also have some 177 Westfall bushel gourd seeds,840 Opperman,1175 holub sq.,1297 & 1407 bernstrom and zucca gourds seeds. I don't know how well the gourds will grow here in WI, but it would be worth trying them. Friday, February 27 View Page Received club seeds from the WGPG today. Thanks to all the club members who donated seeds and to John, who does such a great job putting it all together. The WGPG are such a great bunch of pumpkin growing people. Tuesday, March 10 View Page Finally some warmer temps. We haven't seen it this warm since Oct. Its been a long cold winter. Tuesday, March 10 View Page Albino deer that has been seen in the area . Wednesday, March 11 View Page Garden and pumpkin patch almost bare. Looks like the winter wheat crop is sprouting. I got it planted late last Oct. just before the ground froze up. Wednesday, March 11 View Page opps I hope I did it right this time. Patch and garden pic with no snow but with water standing. Thursday, March 12 View Page Compost that will be spread on patch and veggie garden and tilled in with the winter wheat later next month. Thursday, March 12 View Page Still some snow in my field pumpkin patch, but you can see some of the winter wheat greening up that I planted around Sept. 30 Tuesday, March 24 View Page Snow all gone for about a week. Winter wheat growing where sweet corn was last year. I plan on putting my field pumpkins there this year and planting sweet corn where the pumpkins where last year on the right side. This whole garden is about 1 1/2 acres. Tuesday, March 24 View Page Snow forecasted for tomorrow 4 to 6 in here in central WI. Wednesday, March 25 View Page Woke up this morning to 4 inches of fresh snow covering patch. Its going to be cold for 2 days then back to 50+ temps. The snow won't last long. Thursday, April 2 View Page April warmth for a couple of days then a cool down. Thursday, April 2 View Page Winter wheat greening up after 3 days near 70 in patch.