9/27/08 - The end of the Jaradale growing season

I caught the squirrel under the netting today amongst the pumpkins, so I decided it was time to harvest the Jaradales. I didn't want to take the chance of the squirrel starting to chew on them like he did the first one. We've had consistently warm weather and no frost yet but the growing season is definitely coming to an end.

I weighed the 4 pumpkins I harvested today, and they totaled 26 pounds. These 5 pumpkins came to a total of 35 pounds. No where close to my giant pumpkin last year.

08/28/08 - East Lake - Ron and Linda's pumpkin is thriving!!!

This plant is Ron & Linda's.... 14 inches from ground to top, will have to do a curcumference measurement.

09/05/08 - The cooler weather has begun

I've been quite negligent in posting this summer. July was unbearably hot. The cooler weather has started and fall is not very far away, so I harvested the oldest pumpkin today. It weights 9.6 lbs, not nearly as exciting as the giants. I have 5 in total. This one survived several attacks by the squirrels and scabbed over to heal itself. It survived much better than the Atlantic Giants from prior years. They just started to rot as soon as the outer skin was broken.