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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"> <channel> <title>BigPumpkins.com Diary for 'Kevin_M'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2025&grower=133981&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'Kevin_M'.</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright &copy; 1999-2025 BigPumpkins.com. All rights reserved.</copyright> <webMaster>info@bigpumpkins.com</webMaster> <generator>BP RSS FeedGen</generator> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <image> <title>BigPumpkins.com</title> <url>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/images/newlogo_232x70.jpg</url> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/</link> </image> <item> <title>01/17/2025 - with photo</title> <description>My goal this season is to be a root farmer first. The plant and pumpkin will follow. I hope to see big improvements this post season when I pull the plant.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350798</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350798</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:34:58 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/17/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Weak!</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350797</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350797</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:32:09 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/17/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I’m posting some thoughts looking back at last season… with photos. How can roots penetrate clay? Simply put, they don’t. My roots last year did not go deeper than 12” in most areas. In those area...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350796</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350796</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:30:46 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/14/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The trio of pre-season reporting is complete (for me). Got this back from Western Labs, and the results are pretty much what I was expecting. I've already done one mustard cover crop. Over the weekend...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350779</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350779</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:44:36 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/10/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Something I've never tested for before... Nematodes.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350761</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350761</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:04:08 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/10/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2025, here we go! First soil test of the year.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350760</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350760</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:03:28 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>12/20/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Last one for 2024. First cover crop of mustard and winter rye are chopped and tilled in. Broadforked the ground as well. Two or three weeks of rest then the second crop goes in. There is a night and d...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350674</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350674</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:08:38 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>11/07/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Seeds are ready for packaging, and the labels are done. This is a pretty neat feeling.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350295</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350295</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:45:33 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>11/01/2024 - with photo</title> <description>After about 40 days off the vine and on display in my yard…. Today was seed harvest day. The 1479 and 1206 held up well. I got about double the amount of seeds from the 1479. In yet another first this...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350216</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350216</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:05:07 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/28/2024 - with photo</title> <description>12 yards of material mended in… Well, closer to 11. About a yard went to the garden beds. Next up, seeding the future grass area and cover crop in the patch. I’m contemplating laying down a wooden...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350159</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350159</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:42:10 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/18/2024 - with photo</title> <description>I suppose today marks my journey towards the growing season of 2025. I promised my wife and kids half of the yard back. I’ll be seeding tall fescue in the half closest to the camera, and putting a rot...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350018</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350018</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:20:01 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/04/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Haven’t had much time to work on the patch and prep for next season…. But we’ve set the bar on the street in Halloween decorations.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349719</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349719</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:18:56 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/22/2024 - with photo</title> <description>The 1708 came in at 1479 lbs on the scale, good enough for 3rd place. This was an absolute blast and we’ll be back next year. Being new I intentionally didn’t include a lot of the “what I’m doing t...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349401</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349401</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:51:05 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/22/2024 - with photo</title> <description>The 2023 came in at 1206 lbs, weighed on my non GPC / non certified crane scale. Both of my fruit are sitting in front of my house and will be lawn ornaments as long as we can get them to last, hop...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349400</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349400</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:39:19 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/16/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Took down the shade covers over the weekend and nearly lost one of my EZ-UP’s due to the wind today. Crisis averted and only had a few leaves get damaged when it rolled over in a gust. Lesson learned!...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349274</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349274</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:19:38 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/09/2024 - with photo</title> <description>California is known for a lot of things. One of those things is wildfires. The heat has been consistently in the 90’s and 100’s for a week and it’s supposed to start letting up tomorrow. The view ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349123</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349123</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:00:18 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/07/2024</title> <description>Overall I am incredibly happy with how this season has gone. This is my first year and both plants grew well. The fruits both went beyond my personal goal of 1,000 lbs. 13 more days on the vine for th...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349062</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349062</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:38:52 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/07/2024 - with photo</title> <description>2023 update. Shovel for scale! It’s a little over 1100 lbs at my last measuring on DAP 70 / Sep 5th. Someone else had mentioned they wanted to swap notes on this fruit… please email me and I’d be happ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349061</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349061</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:35:48 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/07/2024 - with photo</title> <description>1708 photo update. Shovel for scale.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349060</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349060</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:33:01 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/03/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Today is DAP 77 for the 1708. My wife wants to name it Gourdon Ramsey. I kind of like it. I’m sure we aren’t the first to come up with that. Anywho, She’s still growing but there’s a bit of a heat wav...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=348952</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=348952</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:00:14 GMT</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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