Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 4 Entries. Thursday, May 2 View Page Decided to come out of AG and squash retirement. It's already been 17 years since I grew a WR squash and ER pumpkin and 15 years since a WR marrow. Time flies. Moved the garden from a community allotment to a farm where I am head gardener. Just set up a new polytunnel of 9.5m x 26m (30ft x 85ft), big enough for 1 AG, 1 squash, 2 FPs and other giant vegetables. Added about 6 inches of year old Galloway beef cattle manure, the same of mature compost as well as worm compost, bone meal, crushed oyster shells, lime, silica, blood meal, lava dust, organic fertilizer, kalium, kelp, borium, root stimulator, enzymes and mycorrhiza fungi. As always, it's all no-dig. Till last fall, dairy cattle were grazing where the tunnel is now.   Saturday, September 28 View Page Coming out of AG retirement paid off. Broke my old Dutch squash record from 2007 (1234 lbs) with one weighing 1454 lbs. Also broke the Dutch records for table beet, zucchini/courgette and butternut squash. Finished first in all classes I entered including the above mentioned and heavy and long cucumber, runner bean, tomato and field pumpkin. Moving from the allotment to the farm might have been the game changer.   Sunday, September 29 View Page Broke my old Dutch record table beet. This one weighed 26.15 lbs and was grown off store bought seed.   Sunday, September 29 View Page New Dutch record squash. Old one was from 2007 when it was a world record. I stopped growing 7 years ago, but decided to start again when I got use of quite a bit of land at a local farm. Now 1454 Wursten (1332 Sproule x self)*. Good thing I grew it, because another grower had one also heavier than the old record.