Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 49 Entries. Wednesday, February 19 View Page been a long winter almost 2 feet on the ground   Wednesday, February 19 View Page patch is completely buried   Wednesday, February 19 View Page the walkway resembles earthern-works   Wednesday, February 19 View Page but the mailbox is still above the snowbank, maybe they'll be some seed-paks in it today? thinking spring!   Tuesday, March 11 View Page patch as of march 8th hopefully starts melting   Tuesday, March 11 View Page patch as of march 11th some melting finally   Tuesday, March 11 View Page this rabbit is a regular every morning   Friday, March 14 View Page march 14, 10 degrees out patch still snow-covered com'on March you can do better than this!   Thursday, March 20 View Page March 20th first day of spring, patch is still snow covered, supposed to get up to 50 degrees today hopefully the patch will star to clear of snow?   Friday, March 28 View Page patch not cooperating still frozen and partially snow covered hope to be gone by this weekend need to get some tilling in!?   Friday, March 28 View Page winter go away!   Monday, March 31 View Page yeah spring finally, got my brush pile burnt tried to till but ground frozen, oh well maybe next week?   Saturday, April 12 View Page tilled upper and lower patch, put down winter rye and 20lbs mycorrhizae left over from last year   Wednesday, April 16 View Page just when you thought it was safe to go back into the patch, Winter returns!   Thursday, April 17 View Page put down more rye and some hairy vetch went fishing caught nothing.   Monday, April 21 View Page re-built the hoop houses plants will be in before the end of the month   Monday, April 28 View Page plants went out in their hoops yesterday   Tuesday, April 29 View Page weather continues to be cool and not in the good way   Wednesday, May 28 View Page weathers back to cool and cloudy have a small pea sized pumpkin forming on the lancaster plant.   Thursday, May 29 View Page 34 degrees this morning with frost   Thursday, May 29 View Page pumpkin forming on Lancaster 1756   Sunday, June 1 View Page my sons 905VM squash.   Sunday, June 1 View Page 1756 Lancaster this one already has a small pumpkin forming on it   Sunday, June 1 View Page Northrop 1813 this plant replaced the 2023 Mathison that did not germinate, i almost pulled this plant as it appeared to have a virus but looking pretty good   Sunday, June 1 View Page making some homemade liquid humic and some kelp also spent the day mowing and roto-tilling some of the winter rye and vetch around the plants.   Thursday, June 12 View Page 1756 Lancaster at 12 feet   Thursday, June 12 View Page Northrup 1813 9 feet   Thursday, June 12 View Page cams 905VM squash 5 feet   Thursday, June 19 View Page pollinated a pumpkin on the Lancaster 1756 and on the Northrup 1813 the northrup males were lacking any stamens had to self the lancanster.   Monday, June 23 View Page Pumpkin set on Lancaster 1756   Monday, June 23 View Page Pumpkin set on 1813 northrup   Monday, June 23 View Page Lancaster 1756 20 feet plus   Monday, June 23 View Page My sons VM905 squash 10 feet plus maybe a possible set by end of the week   Monday, June 23 View Page Northrup 17 foot vine almost pulled this plant glad I didn't   Friday, June 27 View Page did another pollination on the Lancaster 1756 and another on the Northrup 1813 still no pollen in the flowers or stamens for that matter in the Northrup males.   Monday, June 30 View Page June 29 10 DAP lancaster1756   Monday, June 30 View Page Dap 10 June 29 northrup 1813 raccoon got at it   Monday, June 30 View Page Vine on cams 905 VM squash pollinated squash on june28   Wednesday, July 2 View Page Pumpkin on Lancaster 1756   Thursday, July 3 View Page Cacti blooms   Sunday, July 6 View Page lost pumpkin on the northrup 1813 was scratched up by a raccoon, do have two backups on it.   Monday, July 7 View Page July 6th Lancaster 1756   Saturday, July 12 View Page Caged pumpkin on Lancaster 1756   Wednesday, July 16 View Page   Tuesday, September 2 View Page sunflowers   Tuesday, September 2 View Page lets try to post this pict again   Wednesday, October 15 View Page leaving the Topsfield fair with our first place sunflower   Wednesday, October 15 View Page tall sunflower   Wednesday, October 15 View Page Mad and Cam with Sunflower