Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 53 Entries. Tuesday, May 5 View Page Trying this from cell phone.....the 822 Bond.   Thursday, May 7 View Page My "helper". It makes spade forking packed dirt a breeze! Flips it right over and no strain on my poor broken back. Someday, I will have a tractor!   Thursday, May 7 View Page New leaves since planting out are better on everyone, thankfully! They had to wait on mother nature too long in their pots! I think. They are all doing much better. Spencer's melon and pumpkings 298, waiting for the maybe hurricane to go away.   Thursday, May 7 View Page My 2013 winter project. A Selfed 710 Wagler. That should say 59....   Thursday, May 7 View Page 1071 porkchop   Thursday, May 7 View Page The 817 Bond...619 Glasgow x 907 Wagler   Thursday, May 7 View Page The 822 Bond....907 wagler x 1546 shenoha   Thursday, May 7 View Page 405 Bond (Sq).....200 Bond x 89 Shymanski   Thursday, May 7 View Page 985 hertzfeld.....1562 Miller x 1874 mathison   Thursday, May 7 View Page 734 Glasgow.... 1495 Stelts x 1985 Miller   Thursday, May 7 View Page 619 Glasgow.....2009 Wallace x self   Thursday, May 7 View Page 476 Bond.....307 Bond x 619 Glasgow   Tuesday, May 12 View Page Pleased as punch with growth. New leaves since planting out one week ago look great. Coming has begun! I'm being ultra proactive this year on keeping the emerging vines on the ground. Last year I didn't and I had ski slope stumps, and foaming stump. This should help, I think. Anyway, pictured is the 817. All babies are putting out between an inch and two inches of new growth daily.   Tuesday, May 12 View Page That really should have said vining. Damned cell phone and it's auto spell.   Sunday, May 24 View Page Got all the stumps cleaned up today, and added the little glad covers and some captan. Had a "duh" moment when I found 5 of my 8 plants were double vines. Cut all those off.   Sunday, May 24 View Page One of my " pumpkin saddles" Loooool! This working out really well for keeping the main running on the ground. They weigh just enough that in the morning the little mains hold them up, but by evening the main has come gradually to the ground. I then cover the node and slide the saddle forward. *cough* my N is "a little" high. Tested ph on everyone and found some high, some low, some just right. So added a wee bit of sulfur to start helping them, and lime to the guys bathing in the equivalent of Orange juice. *eye roll*   Tuesday, May 26 View Page Two days after removing the double mains, my babies are ALL rolling along now! YAY   Sunday, June 21 View Page Me, finally getting to use my Christmas present. After much craziness, plants are coming along. I'm not in the running this year for anything big now, but at this point,and after everything they have been through, I will be pleased to get some nice 200-300 pounders. Crazy ass season.   Saturday, June 27 View Page My 817, Selfed. I love this plant. Good God the growth and female make fest on this plant. It's lived through every issue this year and hasn't batted an eye. If this sets, and it should as it's nice and cool, its the keeper at 17.4 feet out on main, which puts 400 square foot behind the baby. YAY.   Saturday, June 27 View Page The 734 Glasgow. So far no baby on the main. I'm steady setting girls on secondaries. This one, and likely one today.   Saturday, June 27 View Page This is the 985 Hertzfeld. It's a gorgeous baby on the very first secondary.....which is only one of three vines so far. Very bad year, that this plant is seven still growing, let alone producing is amazing....did I mention the 7 mains it tried to grow? Lol. Hope plant makes it, this one is a 5 lobe.   Saturday, June 27 View Page Not to be out done by all the hot shot genetic wonders, my little groovy through a 5 lobe too! Take that super genetic wonder plants. Lol. Looks like she will remain miss groovy too. :)   Sunday, July 5 View Page Well. I got salad, and I got babies. After this morning's round of pollinating, my kin count over all 9 plants has reached 30. Yes, 30 kins to sort out and decide who gets the axe and who lives. Mind boggling. Anyway, here is my Groovy, DAP 9. She measured 65 OTT last night. No danger of her getting the knife!!   Wednesday, July 8 View Page Syntax error the first try, so here is second attempt. My little Groovy. Lol.   Thursday, July 9 View Page Really? This a little piece of vine from a tert I cut off the 817 Bond last week. I see this and I have to ask myself why I spend oodles of hours killing myself babying these plants. Lol   Monday, July 13 View Page 734 Glasgow "E". I'm hanging onto both for now as they are both on the last secondaries on main, (one on the right, one on the left) and none of the main sets have taken.   Monday, July 13 View Page 734"c".   Monday, July 13 View Page This squash totally amused me. Likely won't keep it, but good God,how much stem can one squash need?? Steady growing too, last I measured the stem it was 14" long. LOL.   Monday, July 13 View Page The 822 Bond. Performance just like mom, the 907 Wagler. If she stays true to mommy, any day now she will explode out of the gate growth wise.   Monday, July 13 View Page The 822 Bond. Performance just like mom, the 907 Wagler. If she stays true to mommy, any day now she will explode out of the gate growth wise.   Monday, July 13 View Page Lol. The "real" squash, that I plan to keep....   Monday, July 13 View Page My winter project 2 years ago, a Selfed 710 Wagler. Short thick stem just like mom. If it grows like mom, this is one plant/kin I don't have to worry over.   Monday, July 13 View Page My little Groovy. I love this plant, truly. How can you not love a plant that produces year after year bigger and bigger kins without adding headaches from strange growth. Go Groovy go. I have faith in you.   Monday, July 13 View Page A secondary off the now dead 817 Bond. Broke my heart to rip that plant out. County guy finally came out Matt, he said Bacterial Wilt because of the sticky discharge from the infected vines. Thanks for taking time to answer, either way: Sclerotinia or Bacterial Wilt, still a dead plant. DAMMIT.   Monday, July 20 View Page Here it is. My new surprise this morning. Sigh. Not sunken, leaking, or in anyway soft. Kin Haas been covered from the start, and nothing sprayed on it.   Friday, July 24 View Page 822   Friday, July 24 View Page My square squash   Friday, July 24 View Page My 59 Bond   Friday, July 24 View Page 985 Hertzfeld   Friday, July 24 View Page "lumpy" aka 734 Glasgow. I have plans for this one...stay tuned. LOL   Friday, July 24 View Page Last, but never least in my book, my little groovy.   Friday, July 24 View Page Loooool!! Who knew you could face paint a pumpkin. Now the 734 looks much better!!!   Monday, July 27 View Page Groovy   Monday, July 27 View Page 734 Glasgow   Monday, July 27 View Page 985 Hertzfeld   Monday, July 27 View Page 59 BOND, "the rocket" currently doing 24 a day, fastestweight gain I've ever had.   Monday, July 27 View Page I think this is done.   Monday, July 27 View Page 822 Bond   Thursday, July 30 View Page Wake up fuzzy butt, it's time to check the pumpkins!!! My ever helpful dog, Woofie.   Tuesday, August 4 View Page The last 2 days have been over 100 degrees, with humidity in the 80% range. Daily gains dropped from mid 20's to high teens each day as a result. Better weather coming little guys, just hang on!! :) this is Miss Groovy, she should surpass her last year number in about 2 days.   Tuesday, August 4 View Page The 985 Hertzfeld continues to drive down the back stretch and attempt to catch the 59 Bond. They are neck in neck during this horrible weather, doing 19 a day when hot, 24+ when it's a respectable 80 something degrees. Either this one or the 59 Bond could give me a new PB, which would be nice.   Tuesday, August 4 View Page This thing is going to swallow my basketball soon. Lol. This was a last minute addition to patch as another plant scrapped out early in season.....sure glad I stuck this one in!!! :)   Tuesday, August 4 View Page This kin despises high heat. Still holding onto 16 a day during this abismal heat wave. When it cools down end of week she will pop back up to around 24 pounds a day, which makes me smile. It doesn't matter to me if I ever get a record, as long as I learn and improve every year, who cares? Last I checked this was supposed to be fun!!! Well, for me, tons of fun!!!