Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 34 Entries. Wednesday, January 7 View Page happy new year everyone went for a 2 day hike and did a bit of hunting al with a goat   Wednesday, January 7 View Page al looking at a few more goats   Wednesday, January 7 View Page forgot the pic   Wednesday, January 7 View Page me with a goat   Wednesday, January 7 View Page camped on a sandy section of river   Wednesday, January 7 View Page bit of scree where we climb out   Wednesday, January 7 View Page anyway back to the pumpkins this is micheal knights pumpkin it tapes 367 inches and has stopped growing very wide and a bit of a wheel   Wednesday, January 7 View Page the 1522 tapes 362 on day 55 and is just about done i think   Wednesday, January 7 View Page the 1248 finished growing its hard to tape under shelter i have been taping in the same spot to monitor the growth butits not accurate iwill tape it properly when i pick it i think it would be about 385 to 395 inches   Wednesday, January 7 View Page the 1666 its the only one still putting on reasonable weight it taped 377 inches on day 55   Wednesday, January 7 View Page the squash it taped 362 inches on day 55 pretty well finished now got me keen to grow one of these next year going to start earlier next year and try to get up to 20 more growing days on yhe pumpkins as 55 to 62 is a bit short   Friday, January 16 View Page hi there this is micheal knights pumpkin we weighed it yesterday it taped 369 inches pretty hard to tape its funny shape anyway it weighed 472 kilograms its a new pb for micheal and a good effort hope to take it to the kyogle weigh off in a couple of weeks   Friday, January 16 View Page another angle sunken in around the blossom end   Friday, January 16 View Page from behind   Friday, January 16 View Page 1522 sproule taped about 373 actually still gaining a tiny bit   Friday, January 16 View Page the 1248 kline its finished growing   Friday, January 16 View Page different angle   Friday, January 16 View Page tthe 1666 holland tapes about 389 still growing very slow about to end i would say   Friday, January 16 View Page the squash tapes about 371 inches got some nice ribs looks real good really glad i grew it   Monday, January 19 View Page decided to pick the 1248 kline   Monday, January 19 View Page tidge and micheal came over   Monday, January 19 View Page another angle   Monday, January 19 View Page picked and in shed it weighed 676 kgs and taped 426 inches so it weighed light i think about 6 percent it has a small crack under the stem hopefully it will keep for a weigh in   Saturday, January 31 View Page heading off to kyogle weigh off   Saturday, January 31 View Page the 1522 keeping hopefully for sydney show taped 411 inches and weighed 663 kgs when picked making it about 5 % heavy   Saturday, January 31 View Page side view of 1522   Saturday, January 31 View Page the 1666 holland taped 412 inches but surprised us all and weighed 743 kgs being 17% heavy my pb and and as far as i know the biggest in australia to see weigh off go to https://www.facebook.com/Summerlandpumpkincompetition   Saturday, January 31 View Page finally got to know what the squash weighed it taped 394 inches and weighed 612 kgs (1349lbs)going 10.4% heavy the seed came from hollands 6 for 8 dollars in a packet without parents written on it   Sunday, February 1 View Page just found the receipt for seeds the squash wasnt from hollands it was from dills and it was a 918 dill (1002 x 1035)   Friday, February 13 View Page this is phillip (pipster) feeding my pet steer   Friday, February 13 View Page another pic of them   Friday, February 13 View Page he is a brahman x fresian   Friday, February 13 View Page opened up the squash this morning sadly the seed seem half white except 2 or some were underdeveloped anybody got any ideas why there like this   Wednesday, October 14 View Page well our seasons under way i have 4 plants going a 2036 glasier 1578 holub and 2 of my own seed 1 from my 743kg and 1 from my 663 kg starting to get a few flowers on will get some pics up when i work out how to do it on this new computer