Sunday, April 1
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April 1 is my seed start day. It's -12 °C and no sign of warmer weather. Gotta assume spring is going to come since I want these in the garden in 30 days...
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Sunday, April 1
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This year in going to start 5 seeds with a plan to put 3 plant in the garden and then cull one in mid June. Thanks to Eddy Z and Kevin Snyder and Glenna Rea I have a good orange lineup.
1374.5 Rea
1146.5 Snyder
1495.5 Snyder
1045.5 Zay...
1042.5 Zay...
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Monday, April 9
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All the pumpkins are up. I was hoping this one would be the one buy it seems to be having a rough start.
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Thursday, May 17
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The two plants in the hoop house. 1146 Snyder on the right and 1495 Snyder on the left. I think I'll go down to one plant Monday and it's 90% likely to be the 1146. There's some strange things going on with the vine of the 1495. I've got a backup 1042 Zay... in a pot just in case.
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Thursday, May 24
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Plant will outgrow the hoop house this weekend. Time to expose it to the elements.
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Monday, May 28
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First female at about 7'
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Tuesday, May 29
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Hail last night. Not too serious and hopefully not a sign of things to come...
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Friday, June 22
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Pollinated what I hope to be 'the one' this morning. Perfect location on the main. Also pollinated a backup on a secondary yesterday.
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Sunday, September 9
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I haven't posted in a long time since it's been a truly uninspiring season for me. Good plant early on but hail and Extreme winds beat it down quite a bit. Two pollinations, one in a great spot the other on a secondary in a poor location. The one one the secondary outgrew the main vine pumpkin by a lot for a month. Then the one on the main kicked in. So now I couldn't really abort either. That leaves me two pretty mediocre pumpkins. Oh well...
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Wednesday, September 12
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And the growing season ends tonight ??
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Thursday, September 13
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Not a happy day for Edmonton pumpkin growers...
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Saturday, October 6
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After the disappointing year growing I didn't have any expectations for the trip to Smokey Lake. Apparently anyone not growing in a greenhouse also had issues and I ended up placing 9th with my little 326lb pumpkin. The weigh off came just in time as rot was starting to set in.
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Saturday, October 20
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The garden is put to bed for this season. Now the winter task of looking for the right seed to grow in 2019!
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