Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 17 Entries. Wednesday, April 16 View Page 2015 Patch. Cover crop of Oats planted   Wednesday, April 16 View Page 2014 Patch ready for the season. Added many yards of compost/soil. Started a pile three years ago of compost and top soil. Been turning it twice a year Also added many yards of worm castings. Soil test came back pretty good. Made adjustments that needed to be done. The last few days have been very nice. Lots of sunshine. Reached 84 Sunday....   Wednesday, April 23 View Page Hoop houses are up   Wednesday, April 23 View Page Hoop houses are up   Wednesday, April 23 View Page Plastic is on. Now I need some warmer weather. Going down to 36 tonight. Then six days of rain out of the next eight days. hoping for some warm weather   Wednesday, May 7 View Page Dairy Farmer next door brought me over some manure to start my compost pile for 2015. All free just for the asking. What would we do without the farmers   Wednesday, May 7 View Page It didn't take long to make a nice big pile. Much easier then me hauling it all home   Sunday, August 31 View Page 1023 Martin split   Sunday, August 31 View Page I wonder how many other 1023 Martins have split. I see Joe Jarvis had one split also on a rib.   Saturday, October 4 View Page Karl Haist New York State Record   Monday, October 13 View Page My good Pumpkin growing friend Karl Haist set two New York State Records. At the Oswego weigh-off I tried to get information out of him how he grew the giant he brought and rumors about the big one at home. He wouldn't budge a word. Not even the littlest hint. Then I saw a newspaper were he was asked how he grew it so big at the Clarence Weigh Off. Growers said, Lots of Poop...   Monday, October 13 View Page I asked my neighboring farmer for some help. He said sure and brought in some heavy artullery   Monday, October 13 View Page He said, I'll make everything grow big   Monday, October 13 View Page Big tanker does a super fast job   Monday, October 13 View Page The farmer covered my patch twice. Places were it didn't get to, I spreaded it out with my bucket tractor   Wednesday, October 15 View Page 621.0 Staring. 996 Haist x self. 10% Heavy   Wednesday, October 15 View Page First place at Oswego Weigh Off