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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 85 Entries.
Friday, April 6 View Page
First entry of the 2018 season. I put my greenhouses together and got them in place last night to start warming the soil. Now we just need some sun and warm weather! Good luck to everyone this season.
 
Wednesday, April 18 View Page
Here's the line up for this year. Started 7 seeds on 4/11. All came up and are under the lights. I plan to grow 5 of them. I think I'm going to try growing a squash for the first time this year.
 
Wednesday, April 18 View Page
And another season begins................
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
I haven't posted anything in a while. Took down the greenhouses this past weekend and the wind fences are up. All four pumpkin plants are growing at about the same rate. All are around 7 feet or so. This is the 2363 Holland.
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
The 1944 Connolly
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
The 2066 Geddes
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
The 2269 Paton
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
This is a first for me- the 2118 Jutras squash. This one is a little behind in growth compared to the pumpkins.
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
View of the patch. The 5 plants will share about 4,500sf of space.
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
We have had so much fun with the long gourds the past couple years we decided to enlarge and increase the length and height of our trellis. We now have 12 1/2 feet from the top to the ground.
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
Side view
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
Two of the LG plants.
 
Tuesday, May 29 View Page
The other two LG's.
 
Monday, June 4 View Page
Lots of males open this morning and a couple females around 8-10 feet. None will be keepers, too early and the plants are still too small. It is amazing how much the plants have grown in the past week. This is the 2363 Holland.
 
Monday, June 4 View Page
1944 Connolly
 
Monday, June 4 View Page
2066 Geddes
 
Monday, June 4 View Page
2269 Paton
 
Monday, June 4 View Page
2118 Jutras
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
2363
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
1944
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
2066
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
2269
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
2118
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
LG's
 
Monday, June 11 View Page
View of the patch.
 
Wednesday, June 20 View Page
Pollinated females on 6/16 on the 2363, the 1944 & the 2066. All at about 12 feet. This is from the 1944. All three of these plants seem to be on the exact same growth schedule. All of them had another female open this morning at about 14 feet.
 
Wednesday, June 20 View Page
Pollinated one on the 2269 & the 2118 at about 12 feet on 6/19. The 2269 has another one at about 15 feet that will open in another day or two. Hopefully I'll have a keeper set on all my plants within the next day or two. All things being equal, I'd rather go with the pumpkins that are around the 14 - 15 foot range, but we'll have to see how things develop as the pumpkins I've set hopefully start to grow.
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
Looks like I've got keepers set on all the plants. This is the 2269 Paton plant, day 13
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
The 2066 Geddes, day 15
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
The 1944 Connolly, day 15
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
2363 Holland, day 15.
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
2118 Jutras, day 10
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
2118 Jutras Plant
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
2363 Plant.
 
Thursday, July 5 View Page
View of the patch. Everything is filling in nicely. The plants have been growing like crazy with all this heat this past week.
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
Day 18 for the 2269. This one has been a little slow getting going.
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
2118 squash - Day 15
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
2066 day 20. This one was a little slow getting going but seems to have picked up the growth the last couple days.
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
2363 day 20
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
1944 day 20. This one is the fastest grower so far.
 
Tuesday, July 10 View Page
The long gourds are growing nicely. Starting to fill in the top of the trellis.
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
2118 - Day 16
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
2269- day 24
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
2066- day 26
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
1944- day 26
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
2363- day 26. This one just gets more ugly every day. It's the only disappointment in the patch so far. Averaged only 17 pounds a day the last 6 days. All the others are doing right around 30 pounds a day. I guess I should be happy that 4 out of 5 are making decent gains.
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
LG's are growing well.
 
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
Correction, day 21 on the 2118 squash.
 
Wednesday, July 18 View Page
We got three inches of rain yesterday. If my math is correct, that's a little over 8,000 gallons of water on my 4,500sf patch. Be interesting to see how the pumpkins react to that.
 
Wednesday, July 18 View Page
Just in case anyone is interested in the math- One inch of rain on one acre is approx. 27,154 gallons of water. There are 43,560 square feet in one acre. So if a patch is 4500 sf, then it is approx. 1/10th of an acre, or 2,700 gallons per each inch of rain.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
The 2118 - about 400 pounds. Doing approx 27 pounds a day.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
The 2269- about 500 pounds. Averaged 39 pounds a day the past 5 days.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
The 2066- 600 pounds. Averaged 36 pounds a day the past 5 days.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
Another view of the 2066. Perfect shape on this pumpkin.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
1944- a little over 600 pounds, averaged 35 pounds a day the past 5 days.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
Another view of the 1944. Like this shape on this one as well.
 
Wednesday, July 25 View Page
View of the 2066 (front), the 2118 & the 1944.
 
Thursday, August 2 View Page
Took August 1st measurements yesterday. The 2269, 1944 & 2066 are all right around 800 pounds. I'm happy with that as my largest August 1 pumpkin previously was 700 pounds in 2016. The 2118 is approx. 600 pounds. This is the 2269.
 
Thursday, August 2 View Page
The 1944
 
Thursday, August 2 View Page
The 2118
 
Thursday, August 2 View Page
The 2066
 
Thursday, August 2 View Page
Love this view.
 
Monday, August 13 View Page
My daughters still let their dad take pictures of them with the pumpkins :) This is the 2269.
 
Monday, August 13 View Page
The 2118
 
Monday, August 13 View Page
The 2066 (front) the 2118 & 1944
 
Monday, August 27 View Page
We have a few good long gourds going. These are off our 12 foot trellis. This is the bottom of one. We had to dig a small hole this weekend.
 
Monday, August 27 View Page
Top
 
Monday, August 27 View Page
This one is only a couple inches from the ground.
 
Monday, August 27 View Page
The top of the second one.
 
Monday, August 27 View Page
This third one is getting close to the ground and still growing good.
 
Wednesday, August 29 View Page
Everything is still growing. Slow, but still growing.
 
Monday, September 10 View Page
1944 Connolly
 
Monday, September 10 View Page
2118 Jutras
 
Monday, September 10 View Page
2269 Paton
 
Monday, September 10 View Page
2066 Geddes.
 
Tuesday, September 25 View Page
We picked our three long gourds and they are in the basement for safe keeping. I'm posting this picture because we have 3 nice LG's and 2 of them are almost exactly the same length (within 1/8 to a 1/4 inch). The one in the middle is a couple inches longer than the other two. We plan to take each of them to separate GPC events and we wouldn't want anyone to think we are trying to take the same gourd to two different events.
 
Wednesday, October 3 View Page
The 2269 was a tight fit in the truck. The final weight was 1476 weighed at Deerfield Fair. Good enough for 3rd place. Just missed 1st place by 1,000 pounds or so.
 
Wednesday, October 3 View Page
Another picture of Steve's 2528.
 
Wednesday, October 3 View Page
Final weight on the 2066 Geddes pumpkin. Came in 6th place at Topsfield.
 
Wednesday, October 3 View Page
We did get 1st place for long gourd at both Deerfield and Topsfield. This is our Deerfield entry.
 
Friday, October 5 View Page
Loaded and ready for RI tomorrow.
 
Monday, October 8 View Page
Went down to RI this past Saturday. Had a great time, fist time we had ever gone to that weigh off. This was grown from the 2118 Jutras squash seed, but it was ruled by the judges to be a pumpkin. Went about 200 pounds over the chart, so that was a real nice surprise.
 
Monday, October 8 View Page
We finished the season 3 for 3 getting 1st place on the long gourds, so we were real happy with that.
 
Monday, October 8 View Page
One pumpkin left in the patch. It will be going to our NHGPGA weigh off in Goffstown this Saturday.
 
Monday, October 15 View Page
Had a great ending to the season at the NHGPGA weigh off on Saturday. Our entry grown off the 1944 Connolly went 18% heavy and weighed 1508 which was a new personal best.
 

 

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