Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 295 Entries. Monday, January 1 View Page Happy New years !!!   Monday, January 1 View Page Home of the 12 pound tomato !!! (0:   Monday, January 1 View Page Another 12 lb tomato !!! (0:   Tuesday, January 2 View Page Aaaahhhhh !!!!!!!!!!   Wednesday, January 3 View Page I was always wondering what my cat was thinking ?   Thursday, January 4 View Page Apparently the neighbors were home last night !!!   Friday, January 5 View Page Legalized Marijuana !!! California here we come !!!!   Saturday, January 6 View Page I wonder what bnot is mixing up for his next round of experiments ???   Saturday, January 6 View Page My indoor tomatoes are coming along o.k. but it will be about another 10-14 days before they begin to have flowers on them !   Sunday, January 7 View Page Bnot said that i could park my RV in his driveway while we work together on this years tomato contest !!! Lol... (0:   Monday, January 8 View Page Here is my new tomato cross for this year !!! I will call it GROOT !!! (0:   Monday, January 8 View Page Here is my new tomato cross for this year !!! I will call it GROOT !!! (0:   Tuesday, January 9 View Page I used some of my secret formula on my banana tree and seems to be working just fine !!!   Wednesday, January 10 View Page Here is the first place winner of the indoor winter tomato grow in 2015 !!! Luck for me the only competition that year was me, myself, and I. Lol....(0:   Wednesday, January 10 View Page 1 lbs.Not bad for first time growing under a plant light !!!   Friday, January 12 View Page Can't wait !!!   Saturday, January 13 View Page Hey bnot this was my 3.80 lb big zac that i grew in this 10 gallon pot !!! I know this was done outdoors but i just wonted to show you that you can grow a nice tomato in a 10 gallon pot   Sunday, January 14 View Page Well here are my winter tomatoes plants. They grow so slow in this cold bacement. I think bnots new seedlings will have tomatoe before these plants will !!!   Sunday, January 14 View Page This is the day and night temperature !!!   Sunday, January 14 View Page Clock say 0:00 WaLa, Dilly Dilly, Wow !!! The Vikings Win !!!   Monday, January 15 View Page These planters came with their own organic fertalizer !!!   Tuesday, January 16 View Page Now you can buy floral sented toilets ! So i ordered the one that can make my crap smell like Roses !!! (0: hope that the seat doesn't have thorns on it ???   Tuesday, January 16 View Page Thought that i would try saving rain water this year !!!   Wednesday, January 17 View Page Last night we had a meteor light up our night sky and then a lightning like rumble about 10 seconds later and a little shake to the house. At first i thought it was a lightning strike but then i realized that it was clear skyies and the temp was only 2° outside in the middle of winter ??? so then i was compleatley confused on what that flash in the sky was ??? It was only when i saw it on the news is when i finnaly figured out what i saw. So yes it was prety cool to see something like that !!!   Saturday, January 27 View Page Bnot you are going to have to up grade your indoor winter tomato program a bit !!! You are a little behind this hydro system !!!   Sunday, January 28 View Page Im going to a world wide tomato garden tour this summer to see who has the best tasting tomatoes !!! I will start in Washington then minnesota indiana ohio New york etc....   Tuesday, January 30 View Page Can't wait till tomato season !!! Wixom told me were you all live !!!   Tuesday, January 30 View Page https://youtu.be/6gaoVPDT1EE Getting my troops ready for my competitors gardens !!!!!!   Thursday, February 1 View Page Happy tomato day !!!   Tuesday, February 6 View Page Yes he is !!!   Wednesday, February 7 View Page This young ladd was excited to see my 5.95 Domingo seeds in the mail !!!! Lol....:-)   Wednesday, February 7 View Page WOW !!! Look at what Rebel sent to me in the mail today !!! And the best part is that i have enough to share with everyone in the tomato contest !!! Yiiippppeee can't wait to get these baby's out to everyone !!! YOU DA MAN REBEL !!!!!!!!!   Wednesday, February 7 View Page Look at this heart felt letter that i received with these seeds !!! Wow what a guy !!!!   Friday, February 9 View Page These are my pepper plants last summer thats a garbage can between the rows for scale. But i planted these to close to save any seeds !!! They were very likely to have cross pollinated.   Saturday, February 10 View Page Well it looks like i failed with my winter tomato project this year.i planted to many plants to close together !!! I figured as long as i could keep the tops close to the light that i would still get good flowering and still make some crosses but i was wrong. The flower bud would never develope enought to flower due to inceficient lighting. And with my bacement being so cold i now don't have enough time to fix it !!! So its a bust !!! Now i think i will practice on watermellon grafting. I had problems with thos last year so i can practice this now !!!   Saturday, February 10 View Page Well my pointsettia is still looking good !!! I haven't lost to many green leaves even ! Propably the best i have ever kept into February.   Monday, February 12 View Page Does anyone know what these cactus like plants are ? They are about 4 feet tall and have a milky white sap like a pointsettia ?   Tuesday, February 13 View Page I really need to start this chainsaw !!!   Monday, February 26 View Page Need to get that soil test done !!! :-)   Tuesday, February 27 View Page My mom always called me her little pumpkin !!! 55 years ago today !!!   Wednesday, February 28 View Page I must be in the wrong NEST !!!   Thursday, March 1 View Page Some people say that i like to exaggerate the stories i tell ??? What ever !!! :-)   Thursday, March 1 View Page Sad news today to hear of the passing of MARVIN MITCHELL. Here is a picture of me chris kent and marv mitchell last year at mark Clementz house !!! He will be surly missed.   Friday, March 2 View Page You really don't wont to mess with the squirels around my place !!!   Friday, March 2 View Page My Grandfather use to tell me how the chickens he raised would help him with the weeding in his garden ???   Monday, March 5 View Page I REALLY NEED TO STOP DRINKING ????   Monday, March 5 View Page Wishful thinking Porkchop !!!   Tuesday, March 6 View Page WHERE IS SPRING !!!!!!!! I need to release my frustrations some how !!!   Tuesday, March 6 View Page Looking for motivation during the winter blue's !!!!!!!!!   Tuesday, March 6 View Page We had about 7" of that heavy wet snow almost like an icestorm on the trees but nothing like you porkchop !!! And most of it is gone now.   Tuesday, March 6 View Page Here are the raspberry plants that came today ? I was expecting them at the end of april ??? I think that i will plant them in a temporary10 gallon pot and place them in a protected area outside so that they sprout at the right time !!!   Wednesday, March 7 View Page Planted peppers march 1 and they are comming up now !!! Planted them early this year hopping that i can harvest them earlyer too.   Wednesday, March 7 View Page ?? RUN CHICKENS RUN??!!!!!!!   Wednesday, March 7 View Page So you think you have balls ??? Location should read clinton NY.   Wednesday, March 7 View Page Hmmmm ???? Enough said !!!   Wednesday, March 7 View Page 2" of snow last night so thats about 4" on the ground now !!! How is it over their in NY Porkchop ???   Thursday, March 8 View Page Why are we so soft on kids today ????   Tuesday, March 13 View Page Looks like porkchop has had enough of winter !!!!   Tuesday, March 13 View Page Meanwhile phil and his family are vacationing in Florida with MARV MEISNER !!!!!!!   Tuesday, March 13 View Page I got the whole World in my hands, the whole wide world in my hands !!! :-)   Wednesday, March 14 View Page Why Porkchop Doesn't do the weather !!! :-)   Thursday, March 15 View Page Ahh a bright spot in the forcast !!! Lol....:-)   Thursday, March 15 View Page Mark Clementz found this OLD article on Marv Mitchell and his state record at the time. He will be surely missed. RIP.   Sunday, March 18 View Page Gurneys sent my raspberrys strawberrys blueberrys and sweet cherry tree way earlyer than i expected ??? I was expecting them in mid to late april not now ? Well i cant plant them in my garden yet because i have no way to protect them from the deer or rabbits so i planted them in these pots for safe keeping.they are still in a dorment stage so i think that they will be ok   Sunday, March 18 View Page Snow is almost gone but still have some in the shaded areas. And the tulips are comming up in thhe sunny locations.   Sunday, March 18 View Page Here are my best onion and carrot plants. I planted them February 1 a little later than most people. So these plants are about 6 weeks old now !!! How is everyone else doing ?   Monday, March 19 View Page Here is an article on marv mitchell in the michigan news letter i received today ! He holds the michigan record for Tall sunflower..............24'-9" Tall corn.......................24'-8" Bushel gourd..............210 lbs. And help establish the GWG and PB watermelon....259 lbs. Great accomplishment Marv !!! You will surely be missed !!!   Thursday, March 22 View Page Spring forecast doesn't look good ?????   Monday, March 26 View Page Just received a plaque for largest tomato grown in michigan at our spring seminar for the second year in a row !!!! :-)   Monday, March 26 View Page Just found the lost episode of lost in space that Qtip was in ???   Tuesday, March 27 View Page I think that my onion is doing prety good right now ! Bnots onions look a little larger than mine but my bacement is only 64°   Tuesday, March 27 View Page I have 3 carrot plants but this is my best one again i planted around February 1 so about 2 months now. The carrot is about the size of my pinky finger.   Tuesday, March 27 View Page Im getting confused now !!! Is it easter or Christmas ???   Wednesday, March 28 View Page Well here are my pepper plants. I have 60 plants. I always plant too many ? I started these march 1   Wednesday, March 28 View Page Here are my eater tomatoes that i started march 21 i will keep about 16 plants and give the rest away to my uncle. I am also starting broccoli cabage and swisschard today and replant my eggplant. Only about half of those plants came up. May 1 i will plant my green beans accorn squash butternut squash yellow squash zucchini and white scallop squash. Also start my 2002 tobeck april 20 two gaint watermellom and gaint tomatoes !!! Also forgot my 15 raspberry plants 4 blueberries 50 strawberries and asparagus plants !!! Time to get buissy !!!!   Friday, March 30 View Page Tulips are up spring is almost here !!! Lol...:-)   Sunday, April 1 View Page Caught this little guy stealing from my garden !!!   Monday, April 2 View Page This weather really sucks !!!   Wednesday, April 11 View Page Eating tomatoes are comming along just fine. I will have to set up my cold frame soon !!!   Saturday, April 14 View Page Snow cover for april 14 unbelievable !!!   Monday, April 16 View Page Pumpkin growing in Wisconsin this year !!!   Thursday, April 19 View Page Long over due !!! Need to get these tomato plants into my cold frame !!!   Thursday, April 19 View Page Plants are suprizingly sturdy looking considering how close they have been ???   Thursday, April 19 View Page Here is my coldframe i have on my deck !!! I have a space heater inside to protect my plants at night if temperatures go below 40°   Thursday, April 19 View Page Finnaly a nice sunny week and finnaly got my tomatoes in and spaced out in the cold frame. 45° and windy outside 80° and sunny inside !!!   Thursday, April 19 View Page Here is a better look at the spacing i have inside my cold frame. I will have to transplant them into 1 gallon pots soon !!!   Friday, April 20 View Page First we had a meteor in January, NOW we had a 3.7 earthquake along the michigan canadian boarder near Detroit last night !!! Don't worry we survived it and we will rebuild !!!   Wednesday, April 25 View Page It's time to get started now !!!   Wednesday, April 25 View Page Tomotoes are growing fast. I need to transplant them into one gallon pots already.   Wednesday, April 25 View Page They have only been in these 4" pot for 2 weeks and allready need bigger pots.   Wednesday, April 25 View Page Now transplanted into the one gallon pots. This will have to due for at least 3 more weeks !!!   Wednesday, April 25 View Page Did a. Few grafts thiis year for practice !   Wednesday, April 25 View Page Here is the grafted planted now. Wasn't planning to keep it but i can't through it out now !!!   Thursday, April 26 View Page I also thought that i would give a couple of watermelon a try this year !   Thursday, April 26 View Page Hey materdoc this is what i think is a ideal graft !!! A long enough graft stem so when i transplant it i can bury a few inches of the stem to promote more roots inn the rootstock only. I feel if the graft is to low that the top section may try to root itself to the ground and negate the graft itself ???   Wednesday, May 2 View Page My eating tomatoes are growing faster than i expected. They need to be spaced out.   Wednesday, May 2 View Page Its been a bit windy the last few days so i staked my tomatoes so that the wind doesn't dammage them. They are about a foot tall and just starting to spot some flower buds. I started these plants march 21.   Wednesday, May 2 View Page Here are my competition maters. Planted these april 23   Wednesday, May 9 View Page Back in march gurneys sent my raspberries in the mail so i planted them in these pots. They seem to be doinng ok.   Wednesday, May 9 View Page Pointsettia is still looking good for may ! Maybe i should plant it in the landscape ???   Wednesday, May 9 View Page Planted my summer and winter squash along with my cucumbers today. The leafy plants are my swisschard plants.   Wednesday, May 9 View Page I am trying two pumpkins this year. I have the 2002 tobeck in the 2 gallon bag and a 559 fraley in the 4 " pot as my redish orange pumpkin.   Wednesday, May 9 View Page Here is how my eater tomatoes are doing. They are in one gallon pots and about 16" tall ready to plant ! Just need to find the time ???   Wednesday, May 9 View Page Here are the rest of my eating tomatoes. I will give my uncle about 10 plants i. Will keep aroun 20 for myself.   Sunday, May 13 View Page Heavy, long, and seedless cucumbers all comming up now.   Sunday, May 13 View Page Yellow wax beans comming up nicely too.   Sunday, May 13 View Page Competition tomatoes will be ok. They got hammered by 3" of rain the last two days. I need to pay more attention to the weather should have had them indoors ???. Also planted my second round of tomatoes tonight.   Tuesday, May 15 View Page My entire garden has been on hold due to the 4" of rain in the last 4 days. I sink past my ankles in pure mud right now and i dont know how long it will be before i can plant anything. Sucks !!!   Tuesday, May 15 View Page Funny looking sunflower ??? To. Bad it is so rootbound in such a small pot ? This was just a practice grafted plant.   Tuesday, May 15 View Page Even when grown in a small pot these Megazacs can put out a nice megabloom.   Thursday, May 17 View Page Yipee !!! Their here ! The new starter packs with slow release fertalizer in them with the mycorrhizae !!! Right up my ally a once and done meathod to growing my tomatoes. I have enough to grow a couple 10 pounders with them thats all i need !!! :-)   Tuesday, May 22 View Page Everything is more than ready to be planted but we have had 6" inches of rain in the last two weeks and my garden has beed pure mud !!!   Tuesday, May 22 View Page Eating tomatoes are about 18" tall already with flowers on most of them starting to get a little stress on them now ! I will plant them tomorrow.   Thursday, May 24 View Page My garden is so well hidden that i sometimes can't find ot ??? Lol...:-)   Thursday, May 24 View Page Look porkchop NO WEEDS !!! Finnaly dry enough to work the ground and plant !!!   Friday, May 25 View Page I did plant my pumpkin today a 2002 tobeck Death Star !!! About 2-3 weeks behind the competitive growers !!! I will be happy if i just get 1, 000 lbs. Critters took me down the last two years.   Saturday, May 26 View Page Got most of my garden planted. I still have about 50 eating squash to plant tomorrow !!!   Saturday, May 26 View Page Planted my competition tomatoes today. I gave the 8.22 porkchop the best spot where i grow my biggest tomatoes every year. I hope thatit continues.   Saturday, May 26 View Page This is the size of my competition tomatoes right now. They are a little stressed but i do this every year and they still come out ok.   Saturday, May 26 View Page Picked off all the flowers on my eater tomatoes today !!! I like too let my plants get established befor i let them have any tomatoes oon them. I found that if yyou let them have tomatoes on the plant before they eestablish a rooot system that they tend too get stunted and have smaller tomatoes.   Sunday, May 27 View Page Im thinking of planting these my second round of tomatoes in the garden tomorrow !!!   Monday, May 28 View Page Eating tomatoes are about two feet tall. I have a garbage can next to it for scale   Monday, May 28 View Page Here are some chocolate sprinkle cherry tomatoes that i left on.   Monday, May 28 View Page These are my gaint cucumbers both long and heavy.   Monday, May 28 View Page Here is my second round of gaint tomatoes. Never planted them this small before, i hope it can give me a little better start. I have back ups in case something goes wrong !!!   Monday, May 28 View Page Im trying two gaint watermellons this year both are 259 Mitchell this plant is NOT grafted   Monday, May 28 View Page And this is the grafted 259 Mitchell plant. I planted these two watermellon plants in honor of marvin mitchell who passed away earlyer this spring.   Monday, May 28 View Page Beans and swisschard is looking good allready. Hopping for an early harvest this year.   Thursday, May 31 View Page Ha 15 years ago this would have been concidered a very large plant for the end of may, now everyone has a 10 foot plant and this would be going to the compost pile !!! Lol....   Sunday, June 3 View Page Planted 4 BlackBerry plamts. They have a suprizingly large flower on them. Far nicer and larger than the raspberries.   Sunday, June 3 View Page Like Qtip im trying blueberries this year. I have 4 plants   Tuesday, June 5 View Page Can't wait swisschard and beans will be comming soon.   Tuesday, June 5 View Page Eating tomatoes are comming along.   Tuesday, June 5 View Page My 2002 tobeck is about two two feet long now !!! I can't believe how big everyones plants are this year ??? In april everyone thought it was going to be a cold year and instead i think that this is the best start that alost everyone has had !!!   Wednesday, June 6 View Page WOW a new record !!! My forst pumpkin is only 16" inches out !!! Who needs 150 square feet i only need 5 square feet !!! :-) im almost tempted to try it !!! This is my back up for orange.   Wednesday, June 13 View Page May 24 when i started planting my garden their wasn't a single weed !!! Wow they come in fast !!!   Friday, June 15 View Page Spinach is ready !!! After my spinach i will have the strenght to weed my garden !!!   Friday, June 15 View Page 5 minutes later the weeds are gone !!!   Friday, June 15 View Page Another picture after cleaning up the weeds.   Friday, June 15 View Page Competition tomatoes are comming along.   Friday, June 15 View Page this guy isn't wearing any socks ?????   Saturday, June 16 View Page Here is a nice megabloom getting started on ricks ZACHEART. Flower buds are just getting started now !!!   Sunday, June 17 View Page 25 years ago it seemed like a cool ia to trim a norway spruce tree into a 30' foot shrub !!! Now at 55 i say what the hell was i thinking ???? Lol... :-)   Wednesday, June 20 View Page Garden is doing really good this year. Keeping the weeds in check this year   Wednesday, June 20 View Page Slammer row !!! Comming along prety good right now . megabuds are starting to show now !!!   Wednesday, June 20 View Page Here is an early Megazac bud. It probably has a week to go before blooming.   Wednesday, June 20 View Page Here is another bud on another plant !!!   Wednesday, June 20 View Page On the right side along the fence are my second round of competition tomatoes   Wednesday, June 20 View Page So this is what my garden looked like on july 3 last year !!! Lol....:-)   Thursday, June 21 View Page A polyphemus moth on my squash plant this morning.   Sunday, June 24 View Page Megabloom just getting started on the 6.23 Megazac   Sunday, June 24 View Page Another 6.23 Megazac. This one is a little twisted under at the moment but i think it will straighten out !!!   Sunday, June 24 View Page One more 6.23 Megazac   Sunday, June 24 View Page This is on Rick Spaziani Oxheart !!! Looks like a keeper !!!   Monday, June 25 View Page Christmas in july !!!   Monday, June 25 View Page Cut my poinsettia back a few weeks ago. Its resprouting nicely !!!   Tuesday, June 26 View Page More rain on the way !   Wednesday, June 27 View Page I finally got all my Ducks in a row !!!   Thursday, June 28 View Page Back in February my good friend Garden Rebel gave me, porkchop ,qtip, Dan MacCoy and a few others these awesome 5.07 Bouydo seeds   Thursday, June 28 View Page Well needless to say Dan MacCoy has a beautiful megabloom on his 5.07 Bouydo   Thursday, June 28 View Page Something tells me that my seed did not come from the same batch of seeds GARDEN REBEL !!!   Friday, June 29 View Page I just picked these 4 squash today.   Friday, June 29 View Page Cherry tomatoes are starting to turn now ! And its still ony june !!!   Friday, June 29 View Page My tomatoes are so well known around here that they named a road after me !!! Lol... :-)   Friday, June 29 View Page Here is a nice Megazac flower !   Friday, June 29 View Page This is the 2.06 Zacheart !!! Nice megabloom on this one !!!   Friday, June 29 View Page This is a 7.10 foss bigzac. Looks like its becomming a ribbon vine !!!   Monday, July 2 View Page Nice flower on the 8.22 porkchop Domingo   Monday, July 2 View Page Weeds are comming back already !!! They are impossible !!!   Monday, July 2 View Page I used leaf mulch on my peppers but thats all the leaves i had !!! It works great on holding down the weeds and the earth worms love it.   Monday, July 9 View Page I only have a few Domingos that set on the first truss !!! Not sure if its the heat this year or if im screwing up some how but my megablooms will flower and then just sit their and do nothing !!! Lost most of my best flowers.   Monday, July 9 View Page At least my eating tomatoes are doing ok !!!   Monday, July 9 View Page The yellow wax beans have been comming in for awhile now !!!   Friday, July 13 View Page Broccoli is almost ready to pick !!! Its one of my favorite vegetables !!!   Friday, July 13 View Page I thought that i would try heavy and long cucumbers this year but the cucumber beatle are so bad in my area that i get all kinds of disease on them !!! Needless to say i can't grow cucumbers at my garden.   Friday, July 13 View Page This is how i grow my cucumbers. I plant them in a 10 gallon pot and they grow like ground cover in my shrub bed !!! :-) i picked 6 cucumbers so far !!!   Tuesday, July 17 View Page I have some tomatoes going ! Since i didnt get the flowers i was counting on to take i just took some double and triple flowers.the thing is that i have no idea what day they were pollinated or any of their sizes or growth rates are ??? I just water prune and do what is needed so they are what they are ? Maybe i will still get lucky !!!   Tuesday, July 17 View Page This one is on my second plantings and its a Domingo.   Tuesday, July 17 View Page Another domingo ! Again i have no idea when it was pollinated.   Tuesday, July 17 View Page My broccoli is doing very good !!! My general garden is doing much better than mormal, but my gaints are giving me fitts !!!   Wednesday, July 18 View Page Started weeding again ! They are knee high in only 28 days after last weeding !!!   Friday, July 20 View Page I need to start measuring sommme of my tomatoes?   Friday, July 20 View Page Sunflowers that i grew in 1999 ! My tallest was 16'-2"   Friday, July 20 View Page Here are some pictures of my first garden in the wooded area i now grow at !!! I just planted squash and field pumpkins in this clearing and let nature take care of it !!! Cant beleive things grew so good out their !!!   Sunday, July 22 View Page Pick this broccoli and cabbage today, my broccoli had a 35" circumstance. Never seen one this big !!!   Monday, July 23 View Page You know your plants are healthy when suckers begin to grow from the leaves !!!   Monday, July 23 View Page More suckers on a leaf stem and this tomato is around 2 lbs now !!!   Monday, July 23 View Page This tomato is also around 2 lbs   Friday, July 27 View Page Here is one around 3 lbs already   Friday, July 27 View Page Here is another one around 3 lbs.   Friday, July 27 View Page Groundhog got in last night ! Need to find where he got in before he causes some real damage #!!   Friday, July 27 View Page The little basterd found some of my eating tomatoes too !!!   Friday, July 27 View Page Gaint cucumbers are done ! I can't grow them out here. They always get bad disease. Thats why i grow them in 10 gallon pots at my house. No problems at my house !!!   Friday, July 27 View Page Wow look at this monster i found today ! IT'S HUDGE !!   Friday, July 27 View Page Ok maybe it's not So hudge !!!   Friday, July 27 View Page My jalapeno are comming in now !   Saturday, July 28 View Page Well this will have to due for my heavy cucumber entry. 4 lbs 3.4 oz. As all the vines have died due to disease.   Sunday, July 29 View Page This is on a 5.95 Domingo and at 21.5" puts it near 3.5 pounds. Its growing about 1/2" a day.   Sunday, July 29 View Page Here is another 5.95 domingo doing about the same as the other.   Sunday, July 29 View Page A Disaster in the making !!! A very smart groundhog has been breaking into my garden 3 days in a row and i can't catch him and he is eaton 5 of my eating tomatoes as he walks past my competition tomatoes to eat all my broccoli !!! This will be a disaster if i can't catch him !!!! Grrrr.....   Sunday, July 29 View Page Starting to get som ribbon vines on some of my megazacs. I usually dont see these growing till September when its to late in the season. Now i just need a good flower on one !   Sunday, July 29 View Page More ribbon vining on another megazac   Sunday, July 29 View Page I know bad blury picture but this was my 5.95 domingo by itself in the first row and the 6.13 and 6.23 Megazacs in the next row. With all 3 this close they may have crossed pollinated on their own ????   Sunday, July 29 View Page Still have a few of these bad boys around !!! :-)   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Groundhog dammage on my broccoli !!!   Tuesday, July 31 View Page More dammage here and you can see my gaint tomatoes are right behind the broccoli plants !!! I set the trap were i think he is getting in but he is to smart to go in. But he didn't seem to get in today so thats good news !   Tuesday, July 31 View Page My assorted peppers !!! Some plants are over 3 feet tall over my waist !!!   Tuesday, July 31 View Page These are a long sweet pepper 8-10" long used for grilling when they turn red. Got the seeds out of a store bought pepper.   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Green peppers ready to pick for stuffed peppers. Can't wait !!! Love stuffed peppers.   Tuesday, July 31 View Page I did graft 3 megazac plants to a maxifort rootstck. I wrote them off early because i neglected the care for them when they were in pots but they made a nice comeback since !!!   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Here is a nice set on that grafted megazac plant. Its over nipple high at least 5 feet up. Chin high ! Maybe my 10 pounder for gale woods ???   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Groundhogs usually go for my swisschard but this guy must have better taste ???   Tuesday, July 31 View Page I can't make up my mind on this 5.95 domingo. I have two nice sets on this plant and i can't decide witch one to keep.   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Here is my garden from google maps. So when i say my garden is hidden in the woods, im not kidding !!!   Tuesday, July 31 View Page Another picture from further out !!!   Wednesday, August 1 View Page Here is a picture of udo Karkos tomato plants along with his 6.22 baby and german record !!!   Wednesday, August 1 View Page These are the best picture that dan ever posted on his growing meathods. You can see that he had a protective cover over them so that he could control the watering.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page And here is dan sutherlands tea injecting tea system he used to water his plants !!! As we know dan is a very private person so i don't think that we will ever get the recipe for his tea mix. I have been talking with bnot a little about tea and weird wint had a great first tomato entry 5.91 lbs. using tea, and we do beleive that the tea is the key to growing a world record tomato !!! The key is finding the right recipe !!!   Wednesday, August 1 View Page Im having blight issues as usual. Maybe i will pllant them further apart next year ! I just have too many things growing in my garden to keep this down.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page My eating tomatoes are usually 3 weeks ahead of my competition tomatoes and get the blight first then it just spreads.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page Ok i cleaned of all the infected leaves off and sprayed the plants with a fungicide hope this helps slow it down.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page I have 3 tomatoes all at 22.5" around 4 pounds now.this is on a 5.95 Domingo.   Wednesday, August 1 View Page Here is another 5.95 domingo   Wednesday, August 1 View Page This one in on a 6.23 Megazac   Wednesday, August 1 View Page This is an interesting characteristic that i only get on my Megazac plants. I have 3 plants doing this now and several plants did it last year to. Ribbon vining !!!   Wednesday, August 1 View Page Another example of a megazac ribbon vine !   Thursday, August 2 View Page Their plotting their next move !!!   Saturday, August 4 View Page I picked thes double. Not to exciting for me but it's 4.5 lbs. Or 4 lb.8 oz.   Saturday, August 4 View Page This ribbon vine is on the plant that i just picked the 4.5 from !!!   Sunday, August 5 View Page This was my very first diary post that i ever made back in August 29 2014 !!! Lol... Clearly it was a sign of who i was !!! It also showed me starting the first winter tomato i grew and continued into the 2015 diary witched leed to my crossing project the following winter !!!   Monday, August 6 View Page Not much time left ? 24" on this 5.95 domingo   Monday, August 6 View Page Another 5.95 domingo.   Monday, August 6 View Page These ribbon vine suckers all on my 6.23 Megazac that i just picked my 4.80 from !!!   Monday, August 6 View Page Im liking this grafted 6.23 Megazac. Its set at about 5.5 feet up   Monday, August 6 View Page The 5.55 konieczny off my 5.95 Domingo   Tuesday, August 7 View Page Here is my zacheart tomato. It only weighed 1 lb 10 oz. This was a megabloom that only one segement of it took and two segments of it just didnt grow and i eliminated the other half of the megabloom after it flowered. Not sure why this happened but i lost most of my best megablooms in the heat ?   Tuesday, August 7 View Page This was the megabloom for that zacheart. I had high hopes for it but less that a 1/4 of it made it. And i only got singles after that. Sorry rick i did my best. Glad to see other people have good luck with it.   Tuesday, August 7 View Page These suckers on this leaf stem are something else !   Tuesday, August 7 View Page Im liking this ribbom vine megabud !!!   Tuesday, August 7 View Page Still having a problem with something getting in ??? Some tomatoes are 4 feet off the ground and i know that its not deer getting them ???   Thursday, August 9 View Page I have 4 megablooms on this plant ! Where were they 2 months ago ???   Thursday, August 9 View Page This is the most promising megabloom of the 4 flowers.   Thursday, August 9 View Page This is what happens when a ribbon vine is to big !!! It's a never ending flower that can never develope into anything usefull !!! But they are fun to watch !   Thursday, August 9 View Page A bunch of 3 pounders left for the criters !!!   Thursday, August 9 View Page Getting an early start on my indoor tomato crossing project. I plan on crossing the 5.95 Domingo x 6.23 Megazac i thought i wpuld get strong healthy plants outdoors and bring them indoors to pollinate.   Friday, August 10 View Page I have lost about 5 tomatoes to rot this week. A few 4 pounders one near 5 lbs. No blossom end rot but just internal rot ??? Had 2" of rain last weekend sure that was had something to do with it !!!   Friday, August 10 View Page Here is the top side of those two rotten tomatoes. You wouldn't know they were rotten from the top side. You can see the 5 lb Tomato is bigger than the smaler 3 pounders.   Friday, August 10 View Page Here is the top side of the rotten tomato ! You can see the sun is not a factor.   Friday, August 10 View Page This is the bottom side of that same tomato !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page Patrick Schenk just grew a 7.30 lb tomato and set a new German record. And he grew this tomato hydroponicly !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page Ok my first keeper !!! 5.31 lbs of my 5.95 Domingo. Now i have to go to the store before i loose any weight !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page Picked the other 5.95 Domingo today it weighed 5.55 lbs   Monday, August 13 View Page So these will probably be my best tomatoes for this first round. I have around a 3 pounder On a grafted megazac probably 10-14 days to go still. And hopefully some nice ones for October !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page This one was about 25.75" and the other one was about 25.50"   Monday, August 13 View Page Here are my two 5 pounders !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page I can't wait when this will be a real 10 pounder !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page PATRIK SCHENK told me that this one may be larger than his 7.30 lb tomato that he picked. He said this one is measuring 29.5" now !!! Good luck patrick   Monday, August 13 View Page 5.31 konieczny also from the 5.95 Domingo. Weaghed them at Kroger !   Monday, August 13 View Page Caught my 3rd possum today ??? Never had problems with possums before !!!   Monday, August 13 View Page 5.55 konieczny off my 5.95 Domingo   Wednesday, August 15 View Page Another promising 4 lb tomato going down to rot !!! I was expecting another 10-14 days with this one and it was on my grafted tomato plant !   Wednesday, August 15 View Page Here is the rot spot !!! I knew when i saw a tiny flash of color that something was wrong !!!   Wednesday, August 15 View Page Here is a problem i get alot ! The tomato pulls away from the stem and the tomato slows down on the side of the seperation and falls short of its potential !!   Wednesday, August 15 View Page Your next woody !!!   Monday, August 20 View Page Cabbage patch !!! They are bigger than bowling balls   Monday, August 20 View Page I have 3 megazacs 6.23 and 3 Domingo 5.95 for making my new crosses this fall and winter !!!   Monday, August 20 View Page I had 5 megablooms on this one plant so i decided to give it high phosphorus and high potash fertalizers hoping to help the flowers and instead they all fell off !!! The plant i left alone are getting sets ??? Note to self stop loving them to death !!!!!!!!!   Thursday, August 23 View Page Here is the most revealing picture i got of patrick schenk 7.30 lb tomato. To me it looks like theeir could be a litle tear of skin by the stem when removing it but i cant tell ???   Thursday, August 23 View Page Another picture of the 7.30   Thursday, August 23 View Page Another angle of 7.30   Thursday, August 23 View Page Another pic. 7.30   Thursday, August 23 View Page Last picture of the 7.30 schenk   Wednesday, August 29 View Page Mark clementz has cloned himself !!! Now we will get as much bubba !!! Lol.... Mark won the michigan state fair last night with his 1298 lb pumpkin he called big bubbles !!!   Wednesday, August 29 View Page Now this just ain't right !!!   Wednesday, August 29 View Page This is why i haven't had a critter problem this year !!! I suggest no one should try to sneek a peek at my garden when im not their !!! :-)   Wednesday, August 29 View Page I go through this every aution season !!!   Thursday, August 30 View Page Here is a tomato that survived blossom end rot. Its not going to amount to anything maybe 2-3 pounds just wonted to see if it could survive !!!   Thursday, August 30 View Page My tomato plants for my new cross project are comming along good now !!!   Saturday, September 1 View Page Here are some suckets growing from a leaf stem off my 6.23 grafted megazac plant !!! The megazacs do this far more than my other verieties.   Monday, September 3 View Page This will be my zacheart entry. 1 lb 14.5 oz. Or 1.90 lbs. Im not sure if others were bigger or not they were all singles so i wasn't weighing them.   Tuesday, September 4 View Page Know your parisites !!!   Friday, September 7 View Page Congratulations joseph Menting just grew this 7.73 lb. Tomato from my 6.23 konieczny(Megazac) seed !!!   Friday, September 7 View Page Here is a better picture of the 7.73 Menting   Saturday, September 8 View Page Doing an experiment on rehydrateing a tomato. Weight 2 lb 11.5 oz.   Saturday, September 8 View Page Here is the same tomato 5 days later. I left it on the counter top at 70° the weight droped to 2 lb 8.1 oz and then i submerged it in water over night for 14 hours and it gained all its weight back. 2 lb 11.3 oz. And fully ripe now and a sound tomato !   Tuesday, September 11 View Page Time to make the secret resipe !!! Found this on eddies facebook !!! Lol... :-)   Friday, September 21 View Page Framac i saved these two tomatoes with more black spot dammage than yours for 10 days and rehydrated them with no problems.   Friday, September 21 View Page Im doing an experiment to see how long i can store this tomato. I picked it 12 days ago on sept 9 and it weighed 3 lb 15 oz. So its down 2.7 oz so far !!! I will soak it tonight to see how much weight i get back !!! This tomato still looks solid and i think that i can keep it in storage for another 3 weeks !!!   Saturday, September 22 View Page Well i soaked my tomato last night and i got 1.2 oz of weight back ! Only half of the weight lost ? I was expecting a little more ? I went 12 days without soaking it ? Im thinking that it would have done better if i had soaked it every 3 days over waiting till the last day to soak it ??? Its still a sound tomato and i will keep doing this for hopefully another 2-3 weeks !!!   Friday, October 5 View Page Well bnot in 4 days this tomato will have been in storage for a full month. I picked it sept 9 i will soak it one last time. Not sure how sound it is now ? Not leaking but getting mushy soft ??? Im not sure if i will go to dundee or not tomarrow, it looks like a rainy day tomorrow. I guess i will decide in the morning. Top prize is $25 half of that will go to gass. Lol..... :-)   Friday, October 5 View Page Congratulations Garden Rebel it's a baby Boy !!! Lol... :-)   Monday, October 15 View Page THANKSGIVING at moms house, i can't wait !!!   Friday, December 14 View Page I should be getting some nice megabuds soon !!!   Thursday, December 27 View Page Here is a nice megabloom on my 6.23 Megazac but i don't have anything on my 5.95 Domingo to work with to make my new cross !!!   Monday, December 31 View Page HUNTERS BEWARE !!!