Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 36 Entries. Tuesday, February 14 View Page Congratulations to Team Heavy East in Germany for growing the second largest sqush of all time at 1263.3 lbs. The squash was grown on the 905* Vincent-McGill 09 seed, which was the reverse cross of the 1236* WR. Left to Right Pictured is Martin Baumert, Andreas Baumert, Martin Teichert- "Team Heavy East" The 905 Vincent-McGill seed is available for purchase at: http://www.gvgo.ca/PECPG_sale_2011.html   Monday, June 11 View Page My good friend Luke Melnyk dropped by this weekend to check out my patch. Appearently, I am a bit behind.   Tuesday, June 19 View Page The 2012 Soil Test   Tuesday, June 19 View Page Im only growing 3 AG plantes this year, The 1404 Bryson, the 1495 Stelts and the 1002 Jarvis Squash. The two pumpkins will be crossed and the squash will be pollinated with either the 905* V/M or the 1263* Team Heavy East squash being grown by my 4-H kids. Each plot is approximatly 750 ft2 this year. Approximatly 5 yards of composted manure was applied to each plot last fall and plowed in. The folloing was applied per 1000ft2, pre season: 50 lbs Granular Humic Acid, 25 lbs kelp meal 10 lbs sulfate of potash 0-0-50 15 lbs k-mag 0-0-20-10mg-20S 10 lbs Ammonium sulfate 21-0-0-24S   Thursday, June 21 View Page My best plant, the 1404 Bryson. Out about 11ft. Set up my misters last night. Had some leaf burn on this plant yesterday. Temp with the humidex 42C today!   Thursday, June 21 View Page A shot of my Cabbage racks. each rack is 4ft square.   Thursday, June 21 View Page My best Kohlrabi so far this year. Its about the size of a small cantaloupe. The plant was a gift from Lonnie Bourne....thanks Lonnie. The variety is Kossack.   Wednesday, July 18 View Page My Largest Kohlrabi   Wednesday, July 18 View Page One of my Cabbages   Wednesday, July 18 View Page 1495 Stelts x 1404 Bryson, day 10 today. 23" cc   Wednesday, July 18 View Page 1002 Jarvis* x 905 Vincent/ Mcgill*....doing ok....was 28" on day 10....:) Day 16 today   Thursday, July 19 View Page 1404 Bryson x 1495 Stelts. No hell for numbers. Day 20 today. 143" ott. Plant has been badly affected by sunburn.   Friday, July 20 View Page Pollinating a super bloom on one of my 7.33 Hunt Tomato's with an electric toothbrush   Friday, August 3 View Page My buddy Heavey "D" trying to hide behind one of his monsters. This one tapes out around the 700 lb mark. Way to go Chris.....you goin big this year.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page 1495 Stelts. Day 30 today. Numbers are mediocre. 234 ott= 279 lbs. A little bigger than the 1404 same age. doing 20 lbs a day! Terriffic shape. Terriffic plant! I still think this will be my largest this year.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page 1002 Jarvis* x 905 V/M*. Day 35 yesterday. 277 ott = 453 lbs. doing a steady 25 lbs/day! Not as good as last years 1246* same age, but again the squash was a weird shape. This one is pergect shape so far and beautiful colour.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page An end shot of my cabbage set up. I have four great cabbage going. The buckets are for watering and feeding under the canopy. Seem to be working well.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page One of the better specimins.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page One of the better Tomatos on one of the 7.33 Hunt plants   Wednesday, August 8 View Page 1404 Bryson x 1495 Stelts. Day 40 today 290 ott, 546 lbs est weight, new chart. Doing a steady 26 lbs per day!   Monday, August 20 View Page If you aint blowen'em you aint growin'em! Lost the 1404 Bryson on Friday (day 50)! She was doing 27 lbs per day last 7 day average. Estimating around 800 lbs   Monday, August 20 View Page Intersection of a rib and a dill ring. This one was bound to split. Lots of light from the inside out. Seeds collected and sheep feed now.   Friday, August 31 View Page Day 30 for the squash today. Doing nicely!   Saturday, September 1 View Page Ooops...that should have said day 60!   Sunday, September 2 View Page I weighed in my first tomato of the year this morning at 4.51 lbs. This makes my third GVGO Master Grower level vegetable! It was grown on the 7.33 Hunt. 22" circumference. It was aproximatly 40 days old   Tuesday, September 25 View Page One of my Giant Cabbages. Picture taken last week.   Sunday, September 30 View Page A bitter Sweet Victory 993 lbs for my big squash. Light, but heavy enough to win first at Port Elgin! The squash quit growing almost three weeks ago. I am assuming it has been loosing weight. The cross is 1002 Jarvis* x 905 Vincent Mcgill*   Saturday, October 6 View Page A great day at Woodbridge Fair. I had a new Personal Best & Canadian Record Cabbage at 99.0 lbs...woohoo! This was not the cabbage I posted earlier.   Thursday, October 18 View Page The 1495 Stelts went heavy for me and weighed in at 1133 lbs. I was quite pleased with this as you can tell by my expression. This was good enough for 2nd place at this years Prince Edward County Pumpkinfest in Wellington. It also won the Bill Greer Memorial Award for largest grown in the County! The cross is 1495 Stelts x 1404 Bryson   Thursday, October 18 View Page My second cabbage of the season weighed in at 96.5 lbs. I was a little dissapointed, but I did win first place and the second largest cabbage ever weighed in Canada!   Thursday, October 18 View Page The top three Tomatos at Wellington: 3.72 John Matesa 4.19 Greg Montgomery 3.78 John Vincent   Sunday, November 4 View Page My 39.2 lb Kohlrabi at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, this weekend. The Kohlrabi, is not a new PB for me, as it had a big hole in the side.....maybe next year!   Sunday, November 4 View Page My 33.4 lb Rutabega. A new PB for me!   Sunday, November 4 View Page My New Canadian Record Cabbage.....112.2 lbs!   Sunday, November 4 View Page Chris Lyons and I preparing the Kohlrabi for judging.   Monday, November 5 View Page Another picture of the Cabbage