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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 'Matt D.'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2026&grower=25411&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'Matt D.'.</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright &copy; 1999-2026 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>10/26/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Grass Seed "Cover Crop" Getting Established Seeding heavy and keeping the area well-watered helps keep the time to cover the soil to a minimum. Seeing this level of coverage 14-days after seeding ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356845</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356845</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:11:09 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/22/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Grass Seed Emergence This time of year, has frequent cold nights so it is nice to see the grass seed emerge about 10 days after the initial seeding. The key is to rake the area well, put down a he...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356844</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356844</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:10:34 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/19/2025 - with photo</title> <description>NYBG- Answering Questions There is always a wide variety of questions asked by the visitors to the Garden, and Woody and myself did our best to keep up with them all&#128521;</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356843</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356843</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:09:33 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/19/2025 - with photo</title> <description>NYBG (New York Botanical Gardens) Giant Pumpkin Display 2025 This is always a great event and this year the giant pumpkin display was right at the main entrance. This provided a continual stream o...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356842</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356842</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:09:07 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/12/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Planting "Cover Crop" My selected Cover Crop is the Northeast Mix of Turf grass seed by Scotts. This has worked out well in the past and other than the initial expense and need for daily watering ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356841</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356841</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:07:21 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/08/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Patch Clean-Up End of the season clean-up is a sign of the true end to the growing season. There was a frost predicted in the near future so this put pressure to ensure all plant material was remo...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356840</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356840</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:06:24 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!Ashes to Ashes Here is the pumpkin fully chopped up and heading for the compost pile in the woods. This was an unbelie...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356702</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356702</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:45:20 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!Beneficial Nodules at the Blossum End While the "Fish Egg" / "Edema" nodules was the reason for the damaged nature to t...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356701</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356701</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:44:44 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!Side Cutaway Image The bottom floor of the pumpkin there is a rule stood up vertically that is 12" in total length, whi...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356700</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356700</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:44:18 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!Thick Walls Cutting with the same wood style saw I have used for years seemed not to be working very well. Once a sect...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356699</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356699</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:43:53 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!The Spot That Caused the DMG It can be difficult to get images while in the moment of cutting the pumpkin, but this sho...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356698</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356698</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:43:24 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!One Last Look. With the pumpkin shown to as many people as possible, it was time to get an analysis of the internal str...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356686</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356686</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!School Tour People often ask to hear of the pumpkin stories over the year and it was nice to be able to bring the actua...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356685</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356685</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:18:32 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/05/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy!Castle Hill Farm Visit It is always amazing to realize how many lives growing giant pumpkins can touch. Here is a grea...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356684</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356684</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:17:50 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>2587 DeBacco '25 DMG (F: 2154 Sperry '23 x M: 2670 Thompson '24) +18% Heavy! Absolutely shocked at the weight (and also the formation of the small soft spot), but everyone was very supportive and c...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356568</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356568</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:49:56 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Initial Scale Placement It is hard to capture the moment and excitement when a pumpkin is first placed on a scale with a visible and live updating readout display. While there were many mixed emot...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356567</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356567</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:46:57 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Bottom Inspection Even though this is already a damaged pumpkin, to stay in the same routine, the bottom is still inspected to the same level of scrutiny as all the other pumpkins are. The bottom ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356566</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356566</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:46:15 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Next Step. On the Scale Here is the blossom side view as the pumpkin is placed right next to the scale. Topsfield runs two forklifts, one with the traditional forks to move the entry and pallet an...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356565</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356565</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:45:26 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Long and Low Side Angle Here you can notice the pallet extension that was needed to accommodate the extra length this pumpkin has. In general, what it lacks in height it has in both length and wid...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356564</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356564</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:44:54 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>10/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Wide Pumpkin It is hard to get a good idea of the shape of this pumpkin in a picture. However, I think from this angle people can see why some referred to this pumpkin as "The Mattress". It is no...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356563</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356563</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:44:22 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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