July 12, 2013

July 12, 2013

Giant Pumpkin Patch

Here you can see Little Bigger and Sibbie our Giant pumpkins getting bigger. Today they were given some "Mega Sea" an organic solution that helps them grow.

I think he's a little bigger than yesterday

Thursday July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013

Yesterday before the storms rolled through I gave the pumpkins some "Mega Fish" .... I think they really liked it!

Farmer Steve with Little Bigger the giant pumpkin

Farmer Lucky with Little bigger the Giant pumpkin

Little Bigger today looks like 3 time as wide as the water bottle and almost as tall!  I think we will need to remove the vine between the pumpkin and the bottle. I sent Cecil Weston an email for help on how to do it. I don't want to damage the pumpkin.

Sibbie is bigger too!

Onesimus on second plant with the long stem

July 8th

July 8, 2013

 Little Bigger 

Sibbie the sibling pumpkin

Our Pumpkin Patch

Lucky's Garden and Giant Pumpkins 2013

Lucky's Garden 2013

July 7, 2013

Our Pumpkin Patch is growing. Farmer Steve was busy extending the fence over the weekend. I'm glad the pumpkins like the rain the ground is soggy out there but they seem to like it.

Our first baby named "Little Bigger" is much bigger today. I'm guessing about the size of a baseball. I placed a water bottle next to the fruit for perspective.

June 28 to July 7 changes. Little bigger started out about the size of  Steve's finger nail and now is about as big around as a water bottle. You can see in this photo that the blossom is finished blooming.  I am not sure if the pumpkin was pollinated.  If it was not pollinated the fruit will die and drop off of the vine. That is a very sad thought. 

Here is a pic of the new pumpkin on the end of the vine located 3 feet away from "little-bigger". You can see that the blossom on  the end has not opened yet. I call this pumpkin "Sibbie" because she is a sibling to little-bigger.

Giant Pumpkins A "Little-Bigger"

July 5th 2013

What a nice surprise to come home this morning after work and see that "Farmer Steve" had been out working hard burring vines and making new white covers for the babies. 

The white covers are what Cecil and Teresa (giant pumpkin experts in Circileville, Ohio) recommend to shade the pumpkins from the hot sun. As the pumpkins grow larger they need to be protected from the sun so that the otter shell won't become hard and firm. If this happens they can split open because of their rapid growth rate. 

The Giants love the rain! Look how they have grown

Here is Baby today. He is about the size of a golf ball or maybe a little bigger. Humm... that gives me an idea about naming him... Maybe I'll call him "Little-bigger". There is a story behind the name "Little-bigger." 

The Story of Little bigger

When Rosie our grand daughter was around 3 years old she didn't want us to say that she was too little to do what she wanted to do. She would say no I'm "little bigger". At that time when visiting she still slept in a pack-n-play. One night we decided to use a big air mattress instead of the pack-n-play.... This did not go over well with Rosie. She cried and cried and said "no Lucky I'm a "little-bigger" sniff ..sob... sob .."I'm a Little-bigger". So out came the pack-n-play and Rosie slept with her feet pushing out on the side netting. She was a truly  happy "little bigger" that night.

The Little kid's Tee Pee is taking shape

The Tee Pee looks great. The rest of the garden is drowning. The tomatoes still look pretty bad since Katie our dog dug them up a few weeks ago. I'm still hoping for some garden fresh tomatoes. In the picture you can see the Giant pumpkins in the background with their new white sun shades.

Thanks "Farmer Steve" You Rock!

Two New Babies!

June 30th 2013:
They grew even more after the huge rain that we had. Farmer Steve went out and worked to keep the vines staked down using wooden BBQ sticks.

We were sad when we heard from our friends in Circleville that their patch was hit with hail during the storms this past week. Cecil says that they had some damage and that it was a set back but that the patch will recover.

We all work so hard on our pumpkins and they really are becoming like children. We need to name our pumpkin children.

Me.. "Farmer Lucky" as Steve calls me with the giant pumpkins.

Here you can see the veggie garden with the giant pumpkins in the background

July 1st 2013 

Two new babies today! Each are growing on the biggest secondary vines off of the main vine. The first little pumpkin we had was at the end of the main vine.  I Guess we should think about names for each pumpkin. Anybody have suggestions?

New Baby #2

And Another New Baby! #3

Our New Baby Pumpkin!

June 28 2013
Our new baby!

Our first pumpkin soooo cute and small grow baby grow!

Here he is again. I know it's a female but for some reason I call all the baby pumpkins boys

This is the plant with the tiny baby pumpkin on the end for perspective. You can't even see the baby in this pic but he's there on the end.