Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 10 Entries. Wednesday, February 25 View Page If there is anyone out there interested in some of the history of northeast US genetics from the mid 2000's, I am looking to get rid of a 1000 or more seed packs that I have collected. Back in the day many clubs had seed exchanges and for what ever reason I kept them. LOL I believe I raided these for seed auctions in the past but there may be a gem from the past that I missed. Please send an email to [email protected] and we can figure out shipping. We are also getting rid of the old library card case, so if you're close enough you can take the whole set up. Thursday, March 12 View Page Kerry and I attended the GPC International Growers Conference in Salt Lake City Utah and received our growers jacket for growing 3 pumpkins totaling over 4300 pounds. We have gotten so close in past years but have lost the 3rd to a split or were just under the total needed. A big shout out to the Giant Pumpkin Commonwealth and the Utah giant pumpkin growers club for putting together a great conference. Wednesday, April 8 View Page Our 2026 season has begun today with sanding and soaking our pumpkin seeds today. We are doing 3 of our own: the 1765, 1349 and the 1416. The 1765 and 1349 were Howard Dill winners and the 1416 created the 1349. Our invited guest this year is the 2029.5 Momirov (1865 Werner x 839 Sandercock) Wednesday, April 8 View Page Let's goooooooo! Thursday, April 9 View Page Did a checkerboard subsoil today. Trying to dry things out a bit before amendments and tilling. Still hit a couple of patches of frost but was able to break it up. Here is a different prospective of the patch. Friday, April 10 View Page Amended the patch with: Kelp meal. Feather meal, gypsum, alfalfa, sulfur, potassium sulfate, manganese, and copper. All tilled in and will have a couple of weeks to get happy. Next steps are measuring out plant sites and placing walking boards. Then digging in cables and building hoop houses. Great time of year! Saturday, April 11 View Page More patch work today. First we buried in the soil heating cables. We work as a team as I am a better shoveler and Kerry is a better bender placing the cables in. Saturday, April 11 View Page Next is building hoop houses. We store them below our upper deck. These are cheap and very easy to build and store. They are 5' x 8' and roughly 4' tall. We just use regular pine 2x4's and 10' long pvc pipe for the ribs. We can get 5-6 seasons out of the 2x4's. Saturday, April 11 View Page The patch is getting there! Two planting spots will be 600 square feet each, one at 400 square feet and one at 800. The last step for the spring is to get the weed block down but that is for another day! Sunday, April 12 View Page There. That's better. Now we are just waiting for the seedlings to mature and plant out. The last piece to add is the 250 watt infrared heat lamps after the plants go in the ground. We have been using the same firewood to hold down the weed block since 2013. Wonder how many times it has "warmed" us up? The weed block is also 14 years old. Pretty good investment!