Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 21 Entries. Tuesday, March 8 View Page Last year's bushel gourd. Monday, May 9 View Page I started 10 seeds 13 days ago in a solution of 50% tap water and 50% Dinty Moore stew. Only one seedling has emerged. I suppose I should have constructed a germination chamber. The seeds were the 100 Condo EST RBW 2015. RBW= Rotted Before Weigh-Off. 100 Condo EST RBW 2015 (282 Scherber X Self) Tuesday, May 10 View Page Started more 100 Condo 15 (282 Sherber X Self) seeds. Also four 251.1 Kent 14 watermelon seeds. This time I added 1/16 teaspoon RAW Kelp to one gallon of water for a ten hour pre soak before planting in pots. Tuesday, May 10 View Page Here is the picture with the last post. Nothing is ever simple Monday, May 16 View Page Twenty days after starting the first round of germinations, I am now at a 70 percent success rate. Monday, May 16 View Page 251 Kent is above ground Monday, May 16 View Page Here is the 100 Condo emerging after 20 days underground. Thursday, May 26 View Page Started 20 pumpkin seeds this year and have lost all to damp off except one. I hope I remember to roll them in Captan next year like Countryboy showed in his diary. Thursday, May 26 View Page My bushel gourds sprouted while I was away so I set them out in the sun for about a half an hour. The crows came by and thought They were peanuts due to the color I guess like the ones I have been feeding them. Saturday, May 28 View Page Of seventeen or so successful germinations this is the only plant to live long enough to expand it's first true leaf. This is Douglass (282 Scherber X Self) On the bright side I will not be troubled this year by the rather morbid exercise of culling. Monday, May 30 View Page I saw this picture and wondered how much wind it would take to lift a strip of plywood and send it careening into a plant particularly this year as for me the unlikely seems almost inevitable. Thursday, June 2 View Page The weather woman was predicting thunderstorms this morning so I provisionally stuck my probe in the ground to brace Douglas. The weather woman was right and we got the first big storm of the season. I am now trying to stake my tomato plants between thunderstorms. Thursday, June 2 View Page Watermelons looking good. Thursday, June 2 View Page Bushel gourds coming along. Friday, June 3 View Page The last picture was not of a bushel gourd but rather Douglas the pumpkin from a few days ago. This is a bushel gourd. Saturday, June 18 View Page I had been gone a week and returned home to find Douglas the pumpkin had gone from being a bush to a vine! Friday, July 1 View Page Bushel gourd after the storm we had Wednesday. Thankfully, the worst of storm passed to the south. Friday, July 1 View Page Looks like a July 4 pollination just like every year. I will be unable to attend that event as I am going to be out of town. Friday, July 1 View Page Looks like a July 4 pollination just like every year. I will be unable to attend that event as I am going to be out of town. Saturday, July 16 View Page All pumpkins to date have aborted. This is a 251 Kent at 5 DAP Monday, July 18 View Page Something unexpected is happening to my 8 DAP 251 Kent.