Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 41 Entries. Tuesday, February 13 View Page A happy year to you all, weather here in Southern England is extreme at the moment raining to much and we now have a mud patch, fortunately I have a greenhouse which is full to bursting   Saturday, February 24 View Page 2 new raised beds on our allotment for exhibition show onions ALSAE and cooking onions GOLDEN BEAR. I have some Wallace Pumpkin seeds and we are at the moment preparing the the ground to the left of these beds.   Saturday, March 3 View Page alsae onions 2 weeks old will be planted out in april. we have lying snow at the moment, unusual at this time of the year, and this far south in England.   Monday, March 19 View Page Assistant gardener viewing the ice and snow, the freeze is ending this week, and then it is pumpkin time.   Tuesday, March 27 View Page the first onions planted today "golden bear" not for showing but cooking.   Saturday, May 5 View Page this years pumpkin bought from a garden shop no clue on the packet as to size, 4 seeds, only 2 germinated I have given the other one to a friend. the seeds bare the name of a very well known grower of giants so we shall see what happens.   Tuesday, May 8 View Page have built a mini greenhouse to protect my giant pumpkin; possible heavy wind forecast from the west. photo to follow.   Tuesday, May 8 View Page villa pumpkin   Sunday, May 20 View Page TRAJEDY my only pumpkin split it's main stem.kaput.   Saturday, May 26 View Page the paton family save my pumpkin year with nice looking seeds.   Sunday, June 3 View Page one of the paton pumpkins has broken the surface of the propagator.   Monday, June 11 View Page have planted a 2017 pumpkin by chris lyons in the plot and I have a backup in case of accidents.   Wednesday, June 13 View Page the lyons pumpkin Lb 1500+ looking small and lonely.   Sunday, June 24 View Page phonetically the Lyon starts to roar. there is 6 foot of lovely compost below its roots.   Monday, June 25 View Page a small paton from Ian as a back up.   Friday, June 29 View Page the Lyon.   Thursday, July 5 View Page the lyon is doing good; travelling   Thursday, July 5 View Page the long courgettes or zucchinis last year we had one 5'11" long. this year who knows, much sought out by my chinese friends.   Sunday, July 8 View Page our 30 degree weather has speeded up the lyons, with lateral shoots.   Tuesday, July 10 View Page the Paton is moving   Tuesday, July 10 View Page This is the best large Marrow plant   Friday, July 13 View Page excitement,the large marrow has produced a triple siamese twin plus a large male for polination.   Saturday, July 14 View Page the lyons 5 weeks old today, with a baby showing on the front main, tiny but the corect distance from stump.   Saturday, July 14 View Page large marrow triple siamese welded together polinated self   Saturday, July 21 View Page in 8 hours time I hope to conjoin the Lyons with the Paton male. approx 6am 22nd july.   Sunday, July 22 View Page Lyons 1584 polinated.   Wednesday, July 25 View Page this is the second one that I polinated on the lyons the first was not sitting correctly,I have also a third polinated (justincase)   Friday, July 27 View Page tonight we had the first rainfall for 6 weeks, thunder storms predicted for sunday lunch with strong wind.   Sunday, July 29 View Page these two are on the lyons, are self polinated in case. we were hit with 50mph winds for twelve hours the lyons was roughed up a little.   Sunday, July 29 View Page the winds came from the south, the chain link fence is covered with a serpente zucchini vine which I grow for protection.   Monday, July 30 View Page these two on the lyons justincase appear to be doing better both self polinated, I have never had this problem before.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page better late than never, both doing well, the difficulty is which do I cull, wait a few days?   Friday, August 3 View Page friday midnight reading cicumference right 29" and left 26".   Saturday, August 4 View Page this is growing faster so is in contention for staying   Thursday, August 9 View Page 99 OTT on the chart it should speed up, but too late.   Wednesday, August 15 View Page my pathetic effort this year has reached 40lb,but pretty.in the open no polytunnel.   Saturday, August 18 View Page marrow doing better than pumpkin about 55lb.   Friday, August 31 View Page the weather is against us this year, cest la vie, pumpkin 70lb   Friday, August 31 View Page however elephant garlic planted today pesult of last years crop of 7 plants harvested in june .   Thursday, September 13 View Page this year pumpkin growing has finished my only good pumpkin has been savaged by a wild animal (unknown) burrowed into the blossom end.??   Saturday, November 3 View Page 2019 golden bear onions ready for potting elsae in another propagator just showing.