Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 17 Entries. Thursday, January 4 View Page Photo is for the Spring Hope Seed Auction, Lot 50, 2023.5 Pugh 23, winner of the Elysian/GPWO, Seattle, WA.   Thursday, January 4 View Page Spring Hope Seed Auction, Lot 50, 1953.5 Tobeck 23, Winner of Carpinito Brothers WO, Kent, WA. Must have Cindy standing on her pumpkin or the photo is not complete!   Thursday, January 4 View Page Also for the Spring Hope Seed Auction, Lot 50, 1815 Uhlmeyer 23, also at the Elysian/GPWO in Seattle, WA, as people tried to stay out of the rain. Henry cat, this isn't the best time to chat with the pumpkin people, lol!   Thursday, January 4 View Page Photo for the Connecticut Giant Pumpkin Growers Club Seed Auction, Lot 7, 1989.5 Tobeck 22, Carpinito Brothers Giant Pumpkin WO Winner!   Thursday, January 4 View Page For the GPC Auction, a photo of the 138.13 Tobeck 22 Long Gourd, Washington State Record, and the 1989.5 Tobeck 22, Winner at the Carpinito Brothers Giant Pumpkin WO in Kent, WA.   Monday, February 26 View Page Hello Pumpkin People! Are you aware that a 30 minute phone consultation with Travis Gienger is available for bidding at http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=116&p=739587 ? Have a great season everyone!   Wednesday, July 24 View Page By popular demand, meet Baby Boy the Field Pumpkin! This is a 104 Treece '22 that climbed right over my 112.5 Williams '23, sorry Brian! Baby Boy is grown like a giant pumpkin with the usual items like soil cables, soil testing, tissue testing, temp. monitoring, buried vines, MT-17 (Thanks to Stan P.!), Kick-A-Poo Pumpkin Fertilizer from Joel and now Brooke, and supplemental potassium, this plant really goes through it. I started off the season with the Exhale Bags but they work much better when they're fresh. I originally purchased them for growing AG's much earlier in the spring and then I ended up not growing AG's. Have a great season everyone!   Saturday, August 17 View Page Severe wind and rain blew over all the field pumpkin leaves that were not protected under plastic. No photos because it's dark outside. Will investigate further in the morning. My turn for wind damage. I fertilized anyway, as planned. I hope other growers are doing OK tonight, looks like Oregon got hit hard. Vineman?   Sunday, August 18 View Page This is what happens when there isn't enough vomit protection against Mother Nature, it's just a mess! lol!   Sunday, August 18 View Page Thank you to the PGVG for the excellent Patch Tour in Urban Oregon! Here's Jim passing along his pumpkin wisdom at Brad's patch, next to the baseball diamond.   Thursday, September 19 View Page So glad my field pumpkin made it to the scale without the blossom end splitting! Here's my 70 Mercer 24 making new friends at The Puyallup Fair!   Thursday, September 19 View Page Dawn at dawn at The Fair!   Thursday, September 19 View Page Too early for the crowd.   Thursday, September 19 View Page Lol!   Thursday, September 19 View Page Rained-on me reflected in the empty Mardi Gras ride.   Thursday, September 19 View Page I thought this was some sort of weird medical display from a distance. I walked closer and it's actually a retractable fiberglass rock climbing wall in transport mode, lol!   Thursday, September 19 View Page Warmed up and dried off in the Guitar Lounge under the Grandstand, sans coffee. Have a great weigh-off season everyone!