Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 69 Entries. Thursday, June 19 View Page Been getting alot of rain, '70's tody. This plant has been growing so fast that I can hardly keep up with it.   Thursday, June 19 View Page Wondering if I should keep this one, or let the vine grow stronger?   Saturday, June 21 View Page This plant is alittle behind, but it should make it. The tap roots are forming.   Thursday, June 26 View Page Two females, one will be out tomorrow. Storms today, cooler tomorrow. Great day to pollinate. Anything I should know that I havent done yet. In growers forum.   Thursday, June 26 View Page Heres another female on my cucurbita.   Thursday, June 26 View Page This is my patch. Was in the "90"s yesterday. Found some burlap to cover my plants from the hot sun.   Thursday, June 26 View Page This is part of my watering seystem. I store rain water when I can get it. Rain and storms in the forcast doday!   Friday, June 27 View Page Happy birthday! It is 6:30 AM.   Friday, June 27 View Page Just touching up a little paint job.   Saturday, June 28 View Page Day two, and I can see some growth already. Did the left one this morning.   Saturday, June 28 View Page This is the burlap for covering my plants from the hot sun.   Tuesday, July 1 View Page Day three, and still coming along fine. Had rat dropings around the location of my pumpkins, so I found a trap. Sprung this morning, but I'll get him yet.   Thursday, July 3 View Page Found some play sand for my pumpkins, But soon I'll have to cull one. Both are growing at the same rate,hmmmmm, which one?   Thursday, July 3 View Page Heres another photo of my Cucurbita maxima. Check out that stem!   Thursday, July 3 View Page This is my sons pumpkin, has a nice round shape! I hope she will take.   Friday, July 4 View Page Happy 4 of July everyone! This is our wild flower garden.   Friday, July 4 View Page I feel like Im a murderer! But I made my decision. This fruit has a nice shinny color to it. It has almost grown twice the size since last night. Now that I culled the other fruit, it should really begin to pick up now. Where I broke the vine the other fruit was set there at the knotch, so I thought it would be safer to have it farther from the cut end of the vine.   Friday, July 4 View Page We just had a thunderstorm pass through about 45 minutes ago. Winds up to 70 to 80 miles per hour. Went out to see if my garden was ok. Pumpkins "A" ok, but some of my mini pumpkins took alittle beating, but still ok. Lost a large mexacan sunflower. O well, you win some, and you loose some.   Sunday, July 6 View Page Day "7" Gave em a good soaken.   Sunday, July 6 View Page A sister on a second main from the same plant.   Thursday, July 10 View Page Day "13", we reached basketball stage. Numerous showers and thunderstorms today and tonight. Hope this will help add some pounds.   Thursday, July 10 View Page Little sister is really starting to grow. She is going on day "7". Had a vine split two leaves down. Put some tape around it to keep bugs out. If anyone can give me some advice on this, it would be great. You can email me.   Thursday, July 10 View Page Bummer! The first Cucurbita aborted! Ill try this one and see what happens. Had to pull up my vine.   Thursday, July 10 View Page Day "4", on the new Cucurbita, Fingers crossed!   Sunday, July 13 View Page This one looks like it's starting to slow down on the top . Bottum is still showing some grouth. Does anybody know what could be causing this???   Sunday, July 13 View Page The little sister is looking good. Nice even shape, and still has a shinny gloss to it. Really starting to catch up with my other one which is slowing down some.   Sunday, July 13 View Page My first moon flowers came out last night. Boy they sure smell good.   Sunday, July 13 View Page I finaly have a Cucurbita that took. This one has a large female end. I hope it means it will be a big one. "8" days.   Tuesday, July 15 View Page Had to find a larger ball since the pumpkins are larger themselves. This one I thought stopped growing, but It apears to still be growing.   Tuesday, July 15 View Page The vine on this one has reached "24" feet long not to mention the secondaries along the side.   Tuesday, July 15 View Page The vine on this one has reached "24" feet long not to mention the secondaries along the side. Sorry, forgot the photo in the last pick.   Thursday, July 17 View Page This is another one of my sons pumpkins. The other one aborted shortly ago. Boy this sure is a weird plant. I cut off a vine section that was flat. It grew lopsided all the way. I don't know if it will make it or not   Thursday, July 17 View Page Oh boy! This thing is really starting to grow. My wife thinks im crazy! In two days you can really see the difference! Man this is fun growing pumpkins. Looking at the last photo, you can really see the grouth taking place.The basketball is looking smaller all the time. I hope I don't loose this one.   Sunday, July 20 View Page Danny and his bowling ball. I finally got one started on his plant.   Wednesday, July 23 View Page My cucurbita is turning out to be one lumpy gouard. Thats what I'll call it; LUMPY!   Wednesday, July 23 View Page The same plant has reached at least "32" feet long. Does anybody know if I should Stop it there, or let it keep going?   Wednesday, July 23 View Page We must have had "2" inches of rain the last few days,But this pumpkin doesn't seem to mind that at all. From the stem going around to the other side it measured "54" inches. Looks like I'll have this one for a while.   Wednesday, July 23 View Page Danny's pumpkin measured "43" inches. It looks like he might beat me in this contest! It still has young looking flesh, and shinny as can be. Im surprized!   Wednesday, July 23 View Page My sunflower has a trunk like a tree. I been applying "20 20 20" down near the roots. That stuff works wonders!   Saturday, July 26 View Page The season would not be complete without a few of these guys.   Saturday, July 26 View Page Female end of the Cucurbita. This thing has a cavity the size of the Grand Canyon. But I'm Going to let it grow and hope that it don't crack.   Saturday, July 26 View Page Daniels pumpkin is still growing and catching up twice as fast. Still has a bright shiny coat.   Saturday, July 26 View Page This is the stem end of my best pumpkin.(Atlantic giant) I hope it keeps on keeping on untill harvest time.   Saturday, July 26 View Page Looks like little sister is slowing down some, but still picking up some pounds here and there.   Thursday, July 31 View Page This is the one Im having trouble with. It's "70" from the stem to the other side and still growing, but it's on a slant on the female end near a dip in the ground while the stem end is going up. I hope I can make it straight again. I'll keep filling the hole and try to raise the end up.   Thursday, July 31 View Page You can see how the stem is bending downward. Man this thing has a wonderfull color to it, and I don't want to loose it. When I try to move it back, the end just moves downward. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? It's almost to heavy to move.   Thursday, July 31 View Page As far as this thing is concerned, I may keep some seeds and try again next year. Oh what the heck, I'll let it go and see how big it gets.   Saturday, August 2 View Page "84" from stem to the other side of the same stem. You know..... when I look at my pumpkin up close, I realized that a photo just can not do justice. You yourself know what it is like being up close to your pumpkin and touching it, and then looking at the photo of it seeing it's just not the same. Man I can't even budge it to move it! This is the first time I ever grew a monster like this! I never realized how much fun this could be.I admit, Im hooked line and sinker like the rest of ya all.   Sunday, August 3 View Page I bought a better camera, But this one came from my personal diary at home. I like touching this pumpkin, I can't resist, it is "80" going around stem to the stem again.   Sunday, August 3 View Page My cucurbita has reached "1" yard in length, and reached "84" stem to stem, wider then my kitchen stove, and still putting on the pounds. I never did this before. Man I hope I can move it in the fall?   Monday, August 4 View Page This is my home made pumpkin ring. I had a guy weld the tip on it for hook up. I hope it works.   Tuesday, August 5 View Page YUCK!!! Does anybody know whats up with my squash plant? I found what apears to be, tiny greenish yellow moths the size of fleas all over under the leaves, just in that area. What would be safe to put on this plant?   Friday, August 8 View Page My cucurbita has reached almost "100" inches stem to stem and still going. Right now I'm fighting powdery mildew, and it's not been easy. Been getting alot of rain, and I'm sure this isn't helping much. Dannys pumpkin is getting sm cracks in the stem. His is about "77" stem to stem, slowing down some.   Saturday, August 9 View Page A few goodies from the garden. I'm about ready to start canning tamatoes when I get enough. Boy they sure smell good!   Monday, August 11 View Page Well, time to get out the ol caulking gun. I filled it this morning on the bita. Has reached "102", hope it holds out a while.   Monday, August 11 View Page Had to do some fillin on this one too. stem is forming cracks. Just had a passing shower alittle bit ago.   Monday, August 11 View Page Already had somebody wanting to display my pumpkins this fall at a farmers market downtown   Wednesday, August 13 View Page Well, now you know what I look like. Bummer! My wife had a friend came over to help take pictures, but she dropped the camra on my pumpkin and put a small dent in it, oh well it'l heal. LUMPYS still in the race.   Friday, August 15 View Page A couple of happy pumpkin growers, like father,like sons. Dad, can we pick the pumpkin now?   Saturday, August 16 View Page I went out this morning to check on my pumpkins, and my bita had a crack on the stem on both sides of the stem going from the vine to the pumpkin, so once again I filled it. It has grown much since we had rain the past few days. My other one has reached "83" stem to stem again. the stem is getting thicker, but small cracks continue to form. I think they will be ok.   Saturday, August 16 View Page Another shot of my curcurbita at a side veiw. Inspite of the cavity, I'm still quite happy with her, and this being my first year growing a pumpkin, I could always use it for a shelf to put my books on.   Tuesday, August 19 View Page Pretty darn cool, huh!   Sunday, August 24 View Page Well, most of my plants have died back because of the powdery stuff, but my pumpkins are still ok. I havn't sumited a photo because not too much has change since the last one. I learned from Gardening by the yard on TV from Paul. He said; mix one cup of milk with nine cups of water to fight powdwey mildew. He said it worked well on his other stuff.   Wednesday, August 27 View Page Nothing like stocking up on alittle Espoma 00-00-60 Potash for next years growing season. Going to grow some bigger ones next year!   Friday, September 5 View Page Four pumpkins on my pumpkin truck!   Friday, September 5 View Page Well...... this is it! I made a frame to lift this orange beauty! Here goes..................................   Friday, September 5 View Page TA DA!...... The straps streched out some, but it's air born and going on the truck.   Friday, September 5 View Page Thanks to our friend Carl with the green shirt, he helped load them on the truck. Off to the cornfest tomorow to show them off! Thank you "WWW.BIGPUMPKINS.COM" for being there to show us all how.   Sunday, September 7 View Page Winter squash heaven! It's been a good year for squash. Two types of huberts, turkish turbins, buttercup, butternut, and one other type.