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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 29 Entries.
Saturday, March 26 View Page
Beautiful day, afternoon pumpkin break time.
 
Saturday, March 26 View Page
Till time!
 
Saturday, March 26 View Page
Garden 1
 
Saturday, March 26 View Page
Garden 2
 
Saturday, March 26 View Page
Garden 3
 
Friday, April 15 View Page
Started our seeds for 2022 on 4/15. Here is a photo of them soaking in a lite solution of seaweed before putting them in the incubator. Growing four plants this year.
 
Saturday, April 16 View Page
Little break in pumpkins, standing in the N0-Lie beer line at the Eric Church concert in Spokane Wa.
 
Saturday, April 23 View Page
Started 8 seeds on Good Friday using the zip lock baggie method Dani and I have been perfecting for many years. 8 for 8 germinated on Easter Sunday. Here the are today enjoying a nice sunny day at the edge of the patch.
 
Tuesday, April 26 View Page
First feeding of the seedlings. Photo is after a week shot of Neptunes 'niagara' fish fertilizer 3 hours later. Reminds me of paps '"Wedding Night" post the other day. LoL love ya pap!
 
Monday, May 30 View Page
150 square foot patch for 2022. Measures 12' wide by 12' 6" long. In the spurit of 150 square feet I made sure the clotch was included inside the perimiter of the 150 sqft area. It would have been adventagious to go over the boundrys with the clotch.
 
Monday, May 30 View Page
Humm, hope this photo showes all 4 corners of our 150 patch. The Blue Bird babies in the bird house are almost ready to fledge so i was distracted... lol
 
Monday, May 30 View Page
Been the coldest in over 100 years here in NE Washington! Record set for latest ever 70 degree day! Not looming good for our hopes ot a WR this year.
 
Saturday, July 2 View Page
Here is a look at our 150 plant its a 2350 Gienger, I named it Lazarus because I killed it early this spring when a space heater in its greenhouse malfunctioned and cooked it. I dug it up and put it back under the grow lights and after four days it sent out a new leaf. Its been a poor season so far with the wettest coldest spring in over a century! Wish I had the new greenhouses done sooner but it is what it is. Still hoping to be competitive this fall.
 
Friday, July 15 View Page
Here is a pic of our 150 plant (2350 Gienger x 1501 Vanderweilen). The baby punkin is already looking very orange with a classic barrel shape! In our 12' 6" x 12' patch design we start in the corner and bend the main around the perimiter to maximize the side vine length and number. So much fun in such a small space!
 
Friday, July 15 View Page
Here's the latest pic of our 150 plant
 
Wednesday, July 27 View Page
Photo of our Gienger 150 sqft plant a couple of days ago. Its all filled in but we left several secondaries grow to fill in for the fried leaves we are getting during this record heat wave. Going to be a very orange fruit if we can get her to the scales!
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Time to recap our season. Here we are with our 1796.5 pumpkin at Elysian. Not bad for second place. It went 10% heavy. Cross is 1501 Vander Weilen x 1803 Gadberry
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Here's our Spokane Interstate Fair pumpkin it won 1st place at 1109 pounds and was 12% heavy. She was still growing 22 pounds a day when we harvested it September 7th.
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Heres our 1486 pumpkin at Baumans. Its a 1747.5 x 1501 Vander Wielen it was 16% heavy.
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Our 1487 pound pumpkin, 2nd place winner at Carpinito Brothers. She was 13% heavy. Cross was the 1747.5 Handy x 1501 Vander Wielen.
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Finally our 150 square foot challange pumpkin weighed in at 632 pounds not bad for the hard life its suffered. She's a poster child for abused / neglected pumpkins. Cross is the 2350 Gienger x 1501 Vander Wielen. Went 21 pounds over the chart and was sound.
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Three pumpkins weighed at three seperate weighoffs for a total weight of 4,769.5 pounds enough for Dani to earn her 4500 pound club GPC patch! All five pumpkins made it to the finish line this year, I think thats a 1st for us!
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Patch and gardens cleared out
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Spreading 20 yards of Marleys Worm Farms priemum compost.
 
Sunday, October 30 View Page
Cover crop of winter rye laid down, soil sample done and thats a season wrap!
 
Tuesday, November 29 View Page
Leaf Corral 2022
 
Tuesday, November 29 View Page
15 yards of fresh Deciduous leaves, mostly Maples and Acers at my " secret" leaf collection s I te.
 
Tuesday, November 29 View Page
Photo..
 
Thursday, December 1 View Page
Our new greenhouses holding up well after major snow storm hit last week. Had 16 inches of snow in two days. Winter rye is inside is groeing well.
 

 

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