BigPumpkins.com Diary for 'Vineman' http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2024&grower=24589&action=L Last 20 Diary Entries for 'Vineman'. en-us Copyright © 1999-2024 BigPumpkins.com. All rights reserved. info@bigpumpkins.com BP RSS FeedGen http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss BigPumpkins.com http://www.bigpumpkins.com/images/newlogo_232x70.jpg http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/ 03/28/2024 - with photo Dave’s success & big jump in his personal best led me down the path of obsessing & learning about CO2 over the winter. Our atmosphere contains about 380-400 ppm of C02. It is a fact that the ideal C... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343484 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343484 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:35:01 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo If you followed Dave’s diary last year you were aware that he used CO2 for the first time last year. At the lunch after Half Moon Bay I sat with Dave & his wife, Janet. While we were sitting there I... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343483 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343483 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:28:54 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo As you may know, Dave Chan set a 300+ pound personal best with his 2218 which won the Hard Rock Weighoff in California last fall. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343482 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343482 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:21:50 GMT 03/28/2024 This year I will bury them with the zip ties up toward the top of the soil which I hope will make it easier to locate them when it comes time to dig them up next fall. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343481 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343481 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:18:15 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo I zip tie the cables to a piece of wire fencing. By doing this it makes it possible to dig them up & re-use them the next year. Any that I have ever buried without the fence wire were destroyed when... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343480 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343480 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:14:43 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo I’ve been getting my heating cables ready to go. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343479 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343479 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:11:14 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo I will be using TerraTrove MT-17 which is a biological product that helps convert organics such as manure & compost into readily available nutrients for plants. It is one of the products Travis used ... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343478 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343478 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:09:26 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo I also added 20 bags of composted chicken manure. This was the first time I’ve added any manure compost to my patch since moving to Eugene. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343477 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343477 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:58:44 GMT 03/28/2024 - with photo Last fall I added 20 yards of composted green waste to my patch. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343476 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343476 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:55:20 GMT 03/12/2024 - with photo I’ve done some “internet research” & found a University of Michigan report which provides an understandable explanation of how “mustard fumigation” works: “the process works as so: when plant cells a... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343277 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343277 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:05:04 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo Anyway, after my first day of actual labor in my patch I have officially logged 6 hours & 21 minutes in my quest of growing pumpkins that I hope will end up bigger than this one, which won last year a... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343250 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343250 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:58:13 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo I think the real reason to plow in a cover crop just before it begins flowering in full force, is because once it flowers & is pollinated you get lots of unwanted seeds which just get plowed into your... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343249 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343249 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:54:13 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo I also have been told that the best time to plow in your cover crop is just as it starts to bloom because that is when it has the highest levels of nutrients & is most beneficial for your soil. What ... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343248 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343248 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:50:10 GMT 03/07/2024 Meanwhile, my hands just kept getting dirtier. And I kept wondering if the idea of “it being super important to water it enough during this critical first 20 minutes so the soil will form a crust whi... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343247 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343247 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:46:55 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo As I kept plowing & watering kept having visions of mustard gas from World War I wafting across no-man’s-land into the enemy trenches killing the bad guys. Yet I saw no deadly mustard gas doing its j... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343246 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343246 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:38:08 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo Six hours later, after obsessing on what a waste of time this was, I had another thought: why not use my diary to create a “Crowd Sourcing Forum” to get other people’s ideas on why we do the things w... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343245 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343245 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:28:05 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo I was following this painfully slow plow-then water-then plow-then water pattern because I could think of no better way considering that I had been told that a significant part of the stuff that will ... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343244 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343244 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:22:35 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo When I started to realize low long it was going to take me to plow it in by going back & forth over a small area to really chop it up and then water it heavily before moving on to another section, I h... http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343242 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343242 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:17:29 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo I grew a cover crop of mustard in my greenhouse this year with the hope that it will supress disease. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343241 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343241 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:12:24 GMT 03/07/2024 - with photo My first thought was to document the accumulation of dirt on my hands as the season progresses. While I will do this, on its own it probably isn’t enough to make this an interesting read. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343240 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=343240 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:09:52 GMT