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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 15 Entries.
Wednesday, March 31 View Page
Saison-Preparations Last winter I have checked 90 (!!) versions of substrat-mixes, watering-methods and fertilizing-doses in my light-box, to find an optimal setting-mix with my original patch-soil.... ....Result: Only a soil-exchange can do a „good job“.....puuuuh!....
 
Friday, April 30 View Page
„EUREKA-PATCH“ New part of the „Hecken-Patch“,....named after the scifi-tv-serie To keep the effort for the soil-exchange in limits, only the area 15 sqf around the mainroot gets new soil up to 12 inch deep, up to 60 sqf there is a 50/50-Mix with compost and new soil 8 inch deep.
 
Saturday, May 1 View Page
„EUREKA-PATCH“ New part of the „Hecken-Patch“,....named after the scifi-tv-serie To keep the effort for the soil-exchange in limits, only the area 15 sqf around the mainroot gets new soil up to 12 inch deep, up to 60 sqf there is a 50/50-Mix with compost and new soil 8 inch deep.
 
Tuesday, May 4 View Page
Teich-Patch: The right side of the patch is this year prepaired again for the 150 SQF-Challenge... .... with my squash 505 MC-Krüger20*...hope for green. The left side of the patch I will use for one fieldpumpkin.
 
Thursday, May 20 View Page
Hecken-Patch Genetic-Project 1: „LONG-GIANT “ Because I need longformed giants for my „garden-door-problem“ I will grow my own special seeds with eight suitable genetic giants......I hope so.....
 
Thursday, May 20 View Page
Hecken-Patch Genetic-Project 2: „SAFE-ORANGE `21“ I will safe some of my older great orange genetic-giants..... ...combinated with older beauties of other growers.
 
Tuesday, May 25 View Page
Greenhouse-Patch New experiment: First time with my own 73.8K I will grow only one fieldpumkin inside a 12qm-greenhouse..... ..we will see.....
 
Wednesday, August 18 View Page
Hecken-Patch Abort-Record....!! Because the „Nordkap-Summer“ of `21 here in Brandenburg the abort-rate is up to 80%.... ...so I`ve lost 25 of my 30 handpolinated pumpkins and additional many „open“
 
Wednesday, August 25 View Page
Greenhouse-Patch At august-begining many many leafs but no keeper in the small greenhouse, because a fertilizing-problem..... ...so it`s only a late pollination.
 
Sunday, August 29 View Page
Teich-Patch ---150 SQF--- Because of many roadworks in the holliday period here in the southwest of Berlin it was very difficult to look after my pumpkins in the garden......so most of the time they do it allone..... ...hope at least for 100 Kilo`s with the 505 K*-squash
 
Wednesday, September 15 View Page
Greenhouse-Patch --- Results `21 New PB and new Berlin State-Record with a 110.4 ...first over 100 pounds,...yeaahh!! „110,4 MC-Krueger21“ ( 73.8 MC-Krueger19 x 116.0 Lyons18)
 
Saturday, September 25 View Page
Teich-Patch / SQF 150--- Results `21 3x good results for testing the squash „505 MC-Krüger20*“..... .....here the 205er.......deko for the club-garden
 
Tuesday, October 5 View Page
„TELTOW-PUMPKIN-GALLERY `21“
 
Friday, October 15 View Page
Hecken-Patch --- Results `21 Because the bad wheater-conditions only a 800er ....again...... „855 MC-Krueger21“ ( 1434 Wuersching19 x self )
 
Sunday, October 31 View Page
Happy Halloween !!
 

 

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