Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 55 Entries. Thursday, February 5 View Page Patch at the old acreage. Looks like 2010 or 2011 was the last time the satalite snapped a pic   Thursday, February 5 View Page New house in suburbia. New patch will be just to the left of the pin. Some people have a swimming pool, some people have a patch :-)   Thursday, March 19 View Page Seed packet from the EGVGA arrived yesterday – what an awesome selection of seeds! Thank you to Eddy Z. for mailing   Monday, April 6 View Page Amendments added, 1st year for the new patch   Monday, April 6 View Page Got everything tilled in early this year   Saturday, May 2 View Page Now that my out-of-state travel marathon is over it's time to start some seeds!   Saturday, May 2 View Page Only room for 1 AG here so 2009 Wallace, backed up by 1775 Starr   Saturday, May 2 View Page Melons that Ashley is growing   Saturday, May 9 View Page No success with germination for: 2009 Wallace 1775 Starr 350 Kent melon So here we go with round 2   Saturday, May 9 View Page Found this little black seed inside of the package containing the 2102 Meier. Any idea what kind of see this is? Anybody else get this little bonus inside of theirs?   Sunday, May 10 View Page + germination on the 1623 Wallace and for my friends from "Team Bastian" their 2032 Mathison and three of their own seeds   Wednesday, May 13 View Page 922 Young. Glad to finally have a plant in the ground! Thanks C.B.!   Sunday, May 17 View Page Heading to Tampa tomorrow, but when I get home these babies will be ready to hit the patch.   Sunday, May 17 View Page Last night before it rained I love planted my Tall Corn and these Tall Sunflowers (black seed) - thx Marv M.   Thursday, May 28 View Page Tall corn and tall sunflowers popped up a couple of days ago   Thursday, May 28 View Page I'm way behind. Here is 1623 Wallace with the few first true leaves being crumpled. I have a couple plants each year turn out this way. Have never gotten a good answer on what I'm doing that causes this   Thursday, May 28 View Page 2102 Meier   Thursday, May 28 View Page 1104 Young   Thursday, May 28 View Page 772.5 Bastian (2009 Wallace X 829 Young)   Friday, May 29 View Page Entry #18 should read 922 Young, not 1104   Sunday, June 14 View Page Flat vine on the 2102   Sunday, June 14 View Page 1st SVB sighting of the year   Thursday, June 18 View Page Found this on the web, LOL   Friday, June 19 View Page There's a lot going on here   Thursday, June 25 View Page Holy rain buckets Batman! Not sure exactly how much we got from the nonstop storms last night, but it overflowed my 6 inch capacity rain gauge. Lucky my plants came through the storms with only minor hail damage   Monday, June 29 View Page We picked the giant cabbage Ashley grew for her 3rd grade Bonnie Plants scholarship contest - 32 Pounds!   Tuesday, June 30 View Page   Tuesday, June 30 View Page Females opening tomorrow on both of the back up plants. First female on the 1623 was a dud. Next one hopefully will open next week. The 1623 reminds me a lot of the 1725 Plant I had a few yrs ago - growing like gangbusters but tough to get females to set   Wednesday, July 1 View Page 922 Young x 1623 Wallace   Wednesday, July 1 View Page 772.5 Bastian X 1623 Wallace   Sunday, July 5 View Page 1623 X Self   Tuesday, July 7 View Page Shirt says "My Giant Cabbage Ate My Homework" :-) Ashley got a nice package from Bonnie Plants today for her giant cabbage school contest submission   Tuesday, July 7 View Page Pulled the 922 back up plant last evening. . . was simply running out of room.   Wednesday, July 8 View Page Patch filling in nicely in front of me and Mrs Pumpkinman Dan   Wednesday, July 15 View Page Day 10   Wednesday, July 15 View Page Mega blossom on 4.8 Ruegger   Saturday, July 25 View Page Day 20. 76" circ   Sunday, July 26 View Page Tall Sunflowers   Monday, July 27 View Page Giant sunflowers got knocked over by the wind with the severe thunderstorm that rolled her here today, dang it!   Sunday, August 9 View Page Day 35, 264" OTT   Monday, August 24 View Page Day 50   Friday, September 11 View Page Day 67   Friday, September 11 View Page   Tuesday, September 22 View Page If you have early elementary age kids this is a good read   Tuesday, September 22 View Page   Tuesday, September 22 View Page They even got the forklift & lifting ring right!   Wednesday, September 30 View Page Our tallest corn this year: 13' 2". Not our biggest ever but still a heck of a lot of fun to grow   Thursday, October 1 View Page What the %#^*!   Thursday, October 1 View Page Game over. Rotten spot all the way through. Final OTT 324", so it's now the 760 Est Boelman (1623 Wallace X Self). Still planning to go Anamosa on Saturday to see everybody.   Sunday, October 25 View Page Fall cover crop   Sunday, October 25 View Page Pumpkin Pac-Man, Blank Park Zoo   Friday, December 11 View Page Indoor tomato challenge, 4.32 Ruegger '11   Friday, December 11 View Page And a 4.61 Finders   Saturday, December 26 View Page Hope everybody had a good Christmas! Maters are growing like gangbusters. This is the Finders plant   Saturday, December 26 View Page Ruegger plant. No blossoms on either yeah, but hopefully soon