Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 13 Entries. Wednesday, April 3 View Page Me and Harper did the first pumpkin patch work of the Spring tonight! We put new screws in the wiggle wire rails and got the rope tight to help support the plastic. We can push a shovel down about 4 inches and then hit frost. We’ll try to get the plastic up next week as long as the extended forecast doesn’t have any snow storms in it. The seeds will be started on April 20th, starting to get close!   Monday, April 8 View Page We’re making progress, we got the greenhouse plastic up tonight. It was perfectly calm for once, it should really help warm the frozen tundra up haha! The girls should be able to find lots of worms shortly! Getting closer to starting, our goal is to get the Minnesota state record this year! We had in 2020 and some nice guy broke it 3 days later!   Thursday, April 11 View Page We got the shade cloth up in the greenhouse tonight, we use 30% black every year. The girls were busy looking for worms tonight, the soil still cold with the frost about a foot down. Warming up slowly! We’ll get fans up next and try get the amendments down next week so we can till.   Monday, April 15 View Page I got the greenhouse tilled tonight, it was raining so I’ll till the outside patch on Thursday. I put down kelp meal, alfalfa pellets, elemental sulfur, and Ridomil before tilling. I only till once a year so it’s nice to have done. Next will be to get the soil cables in and the drip tape set out.   Thursday, April 18 View Page We were busy cleaning out our drip line main headers and valves tonight! If you’ve never cleaned out your headers or valves I’d definitely recommend it. I always get new drip line each year, but always overlooked cleaning the header and valves. Having a good pumpkin supervisor is the key to growing big pumpkins haha!   Friday, April 19 View Page We started the growing season tonight! Me, Blake, and Harper planted the seed that produced the world record last year, and the seed from the world record pumpkin last year! Andy and Travis were very nice in getting us seeds! We’ll start our 2501 seed tomorrow and the 2560 that grew our 2501 last year, along with a few backups!   Saturday, April 20 View Page We planted the rest of the seeds this morning. 3 of our 2501s, a 2560, our 2131, and a 2237 Klema/Solberg. The 2131 and 2237 will be back ups. Everything is planted now! It’s always fun to play with dirt in the kitchen on a Saturday morning and make a mess haha!   Sunday, April 21 View Page We got the amendments down for the outside patch today, and the hoop houses up with the soil cables in them. Also got most of the wind fence posts up. There’s always so much to do in the Spring, so it’s nice to getting closer to being done.   Wednesday, April 24 View Page All 8 seeds germinated within 4.5 days! As long as they all grow normal the main plants will be the 2749 Gienger, 2560 Gienger, 2501 Bernstrom, and the 2365 Wolf. They’ll go outside on Saturday!   Friday, April 26 View Page All four of the seeds are in the ground, last year they were put in the ground on April 26th as well. Here’s the 2365 Wolf   Friday, April 26 View Page 2501 Bernstrom   Friday, April 26 View Page 2749 Gienger   Friday, April 26 View Page 2560 Gienger