Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 46 Entries. Thursday, June 6 View Page Better late than never this is my 150 entry. 6 x 25.   Thursday, June 6 View Page Update on the giant pumpkins in the High Tunnel . Plant closest to me is the 2154 Sperry and the plant in the background is the 2239 Marintzer. Plants are a little behind, but moving along nicely now had a late start . I also installed a retractable shade cloth.   Thursday, June 6 View Page I have 7- 8.80 Daho giant tomatoes in the High Tunnel also for the team competition.   Monday, June 17 View Page 2154 x 2239.5 nice five lobe about 21 feet out.   Monday, June 17 View Page Pollinated . Now I hope it takes. We are going to have four days in the mid to high 90s. I will have frozen milk jugs and fans to keep it cool .   Monday, June 17 View Page 2154 Sperry   Monday, June 17 View Page 2239.5 Marintzer   Monday, June 17 View Page I am covering the root nodes kind of like Ian and Stewie . I’m using heavy duty mechanic paper towels to keep vine burring mix from washing off until top roots take hold .   Monday, June 17 View Page Seems to be working.   Monday, June 17 View Page Patch ready for heat wave.Tomato row coming along nicely.   Monday, June 24 View Page 2239.5 about 75% of the allotted area filled in which is 30 x 30 Third pumpkin pollinated on the 21st Hopefully that’s my keeper. I will cull the other one off next week.   Monday, June 24 View Page Both plants have at least five side vines on each side of the plant deadheaded. Pumpkins are all set up and looking good so far.   Monday, June 24 View Page 2154   Monday, June 24 View Page Better picture of the 2239.5   Sunday, June 30 View Page Both plants have filled in just about a 30x30 area.   Sunday, June 30 View Page 2154 Sperry 13 DAP   Friday, July 5 View Page 2239.5 Marintzer 6 DAP She’s about 30 feet out. I had an 11 day old Pumpkin that aborted. I believe from all the heat that we had. Nice long stem on this one and I plan on cutting the main at the Pumpkin .   Friday, July 5 View Page Forgot the picture. 2239.5.X 2154.   Friday, July 5 View Page 2239.5 Marintzer plant. Big Plant, very little pumpkin!   Friday, July 5 View Page Using the caution tape to hold up the leaves off the rollup sides so they don’t get damage. Mr. Jutras stopped by and gave me the idea. Thanks, Joe.   Sunday, July 7 View Page 20 DAP- 2154   Sunday, July 7 View Page   Wednesday, July 10 View Page Finally got my 150 plant all set up for the stretch. It is the 2154 Sperry x 2239.5.Marintzer 10 DAP Same cross that I have in the High Tunnel   Wednesday, July 10 View Page Worked on the Koi pond today. They are very active this time of year, especially when the water warms up and at feeding time.   Wednesday, July 10 View Page They go into a frenzy and act like they haven’t eaten before.   Wednesday, July 10 View Page They come right out of the water on top of each other.   Saturday, July 13 View Page Thought this was pretty cool. Wanted to share this photo. Yesterday while working in the Greenhouse, a friend that flies helicopter for the state of Rhode Island did a fly over and sent me this picture. My Pumpkins are growing in that long greenhouse in the left side of the picture and you can see the 150 structure also on the side of it. When I blew it up, I could actually see the Koi fish so I guess like Ken D said they are getting big.   Tuesday, July 16 View Page Came out of the greenhouse today to find two trespassers fishing in a no fishing zone. Do you think I should prosecute them? They said they were hungry for fish so I let them go.   Thursday, July 18 View Page Day 20 was yesterday on the 2239.5 Marintzer ,with an OTT of 200 or 186 pounds.   Thursday, July 18 View Page Top view 2239.5 Marintzer   Thursday, July 18 View Page 2154 Sperry day 30 yesterday, July 17Th OTT 292 or 575 pounds.   Thursday, July 18 View Page Top view 2154 Sperry   Sunday, July 28 View Page 2154 is 963 pounds at day 40   Sunday, July 28 View Page 2239.5 is 526 pounds day 30   Monday, August 5 View Page 150 plant day 38 Long fruit and orange. I will tape on day 40. Haven’t taped it at all yet but around 500 lbs I think.   Monday, August 5 View Page 150 pumpkin, 2154 x 2239.5   Monday, August 5 View Page Ken D. Putting finishing touches on his food plot in the corner of my lower field. He sprayed a few weeks ago to clear the area. I pushed the debris out of the plot with tractor . Here he’s raking in seed. He puts in a lot of time preparing for hunting here. I hope he gets a nice big buck from all his hard work.   Monday, August 12 View Page It’s that time of year again! The annual Woodstock Fair weigh off will be held August 29th from 4 PM till 8 PM. Entries can be done on the Woodstock Fair website or by contacting me through email .   Saturday, August 31 View Page Took first place at Woodstock. 1733 pounds had to pick it early with main vine issues. I’d like to thank the community for all the help at the way off. I couldn’t do it without you.   Saturday, August 31 View Page Picture of the tent at night all set up and ready for the fair   Saturday, August 31 View Page Had a great crew of growers. Here is Henry , Ed Pappas, Steve, Connely, Matt Dabacco, and Ken D   Saturday, August 31 View Page Matt and Lee doing the measurements. Thank you, Matt.   Saturday, August 31 View Page Ringing up some of the entries, we had 19 entries, including some new Junior growers.   Saturday, August 31 View Page Alex Noel, Pat Murray, and my son-in-law Joe Charbonneau working the gantry   Saturday, August 31 View Page And it would not be Woodstock without the beautiful Howard Dill winning Pumpkin front and center. Congratulations Norman. She is a beauty.   Saturday, August 31 View Page Happy birthday, Matt and Elisha the traditional strawberry shortcake