779 Warren

I have five nice plants (one is Elise's) and one that is tattered and torn, but should recover soon.

The 779 Warren, 998 Bowles, and 964 Wolf are each doing awesome. The 1392 Bresnick and 1436 Nesbitt (Elise's) are also doing great. The 1232.5 Bailey, well, I made a mistake in where I put it in the HH, and it got battered and burned as the leaves were into the plastic.

Anyway, our weather is fantastic (at least for now!) so the plastic is down early this year. I'm going to love this as long as we continue to get great weather.

Here is the 779 Warren, which is a good example of the others:

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6 good plants

Well, here we are. Another hard freeze this morning. Sunspot activity is really low, and I think we're going to have a very cool summer. I have six really nice looking plants. I can't complain on that front. Hopefully this Saturday I'll be able to catch up with each of them, take pictures, etc.

Anyone out there who is reading this and has plants going, please let me know how you're doing!

998 Photo

Here is the 998, this morning. Those are milk jugs in the picture, so you can see how "tall" the plant is getting. In a few days this should fall, and then the plant starts crawling. Right now, my biggest challenge is to get each plant to fall in the right direction. Several of them seem to want to tip backward and go in the opposite direction from what I have planned for them.

Finally

I was about to say that the weather is finally getting nice, but we're supposed to go through another round of wind and cold starting this afternoon.

I only have 5 plants, plus one for Elise, this year. No backups made it out to the patch. It seems that any time I have a spare 5 minutes the wind is blowing or it's extremely cold. But each of the six plants out there is doing really well. The 998 Bowles is shaping up to be the Big Kahuna this year, and the 964 Wolf and 779 Warren are not far behind. My other two plants are the 1392 Bresnick, and the 1232.5 Bailey. Elise is growing the 1436 Nesbitt.

If I ever find a spare moment, I'll take some pictures.

25.9 degrees last night

Well, the headline says it all. I should be fine, all plants were covered.

Last night I was lying around, about 9pm, playing on my iPod. Tap, tap, scroll, and I can get an hour-by-hour report of the predicted temperatures. I saw that it was going to get down to 33. I know that for my particular spot, take what they say and subtract 7 or so degrees, and that's what you might get. It's easy to get complacent when you go about a week or so without freezing temperatures, to forget, to slip up just once and guess what? Your season is done. But the iPod really saved me last night!

Time to swim

I think I might swim out to my patch tonight....................

The weather has been very bad for giant pumpkin growers.