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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 'Dutch Brad'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2025&grower=32830&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'Dutch Brad'.</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>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Tunnel 2.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353579</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353579</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:17:39 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I grow about 120-140 different varieties of strawberries. The heaviest this year was 113 grams (4 ounces), but it was fused. The heaviest normal one was 98 grams.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353572</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353572</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:52:17 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Tunnel 2 is also home to the long gourds. We have 2 Eatons and 2 Klines going, all in 1000 litre cubes as there is a brick floor in this tunnel.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353571</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353571</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:50:14 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Tunnel one is home to the giant tomatoes, aubergine, cucumbers, field pumpkin (218 Baggs), lunga di napoli, butternut and AG (2641 Paton). Outside are the giant runner beans, beets, carrot, leek, pars...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353570</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353570</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:48:30 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025</title> <description>Tunnel two is the sheep and goat tunnel. We kicked them out in May and covered the floor with 2 feet of compost and manure. Started the 2158 Paton, 2020 Paton and a local pumpkin. The 2020 didn't germ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353569</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353569</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:45:59 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>01/30/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Hoping to grow at the farm again where I do volunteer work.In my polytunnel at the farm: 2020 Paton AG, lungi di napoli squash, butternut squash, eggplants, tomatoes, cucumbers, FP (Baggs).Togethe...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350898</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=350898</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:13:21 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/29/2024 - with photo</title> <description>New Dutch record squash. Old one was from 2007 when it was a world record. I stopped growing 7 years ago, but decided to start again when I got use of quite a bit of land at a local farm. Now 1454 W...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349567</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349567</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:43:34 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/29/2024 - with photo</title> <description>Broke my old Dutch record table beet. This one weighed 26.15 lbs and was grown off store bought seed.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349566</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349566</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:20:07 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/28/2024</title> <description>Coming out of AG retirement paid off. Broke my old Dutch squash record from 2007 (1234 lbs) with one weighing 1454 lbs.Also broke the Dutch records for table beet, zucchini/courgette and butternut s...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349556</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=349556</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:33:34 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/02/2024</title> <description>Decided to come out of AG and squash retirement. It's already been 17 years since I grew a WR squash and ER pumpkin and 15 years since a WR marrow. Time flies. Moved the garden from a community allotm...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=344261</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=344261</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 13:39:34 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/31/2023</title> <description>Almost all giant seeds started for this year.Field pumpkin: 268 Baggs and 116 WurstenMarrow: 235 Baggs and 201 BaggsRunnerbeansRadish (in a few weeks time)BeetsCucumbers: 36" Barratt, 26.2...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=338211</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=338211</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 05:35:52 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>04/19/2022 - with photo</title> <description>Bushel Gourd seeds softening up in a fermented stinging nettle/brown sugar brew at about 25 Celsius (80 F).</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=329979</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=329979</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:25:48 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/28/2021 - with photo</title> <description>Harvested some normal rhubarb and a giant one today. The giant one weighed 885 grams (1.95 lbs). Big one is a bit longer than my arm and I'm 6'3".</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=325449</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=325449</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:54:05 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/22/2021 - with photo</title> <description>First giant vegetable results this year. Rhubarb 721g (1.59 lbs). The smaller ones were 651g en 539g.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=325227</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=325227</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:51:40 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>03/16/2021 - with photo</title> <description>This year I am trying no dig in the big polytunnel. Added about an inch of dehydrated cow manure and about 2 inches of compost. I hope to grow the 1939 Lyons/Hunt (2005 Haist x 1984 Barron). I haven't...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=322865</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=322865</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:07:40 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>04/16/2020 - with photo</title> <description>Covid-19 has hit our town hard. 0.5% of the population has not survived the disease and we're not over it yet. In the garden things are going as planned. I set up an open ended polytunnel (pictured...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=312973</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=312973</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:22:21 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/28/2019 - with photo</title> <description>Field pumpkin on the left 156.5 lbs - 36% heavy (176.4 Wursten x 158 Horde).Field pumpkin on the right 205.0 lbs - 13% heavy (133 Wursten x 158 Horde). European record and 3rd in the world ranking l...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309946</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309946</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/12/2019 - with photo</title> <description>Harvested the smallest field pumpkin. Can only enter two and I think the other two are a bit bigger.This one was grown on a vacant lot and measured 88lbs but weighed 109lbs. It was grown off my 133 ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309242</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309242</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:52:59 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/12/2019 - with photo</title> <description>Bad news. All three marrows split at the stem. The best one was still doing about 20-25 lbs per week.The 220 Baggs was grown as a pollinator on a vacant lot but still made it to 90lbs.Pictured are...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309241</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309241</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:49:52 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/09/2019 - with photo</title> <description>The FP in the greenhouse was a plan C after plan A and B (both bushel gourds) died on me. The plant suffered heavily from the heat wave and didn't even produce side vines until later in the season, me...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309105</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=309105</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:07:42 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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