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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 21 Entries.
Tuesday, April 30 View Page
Trying tomatoes this year. My pb is 1.78lbs. Hoping to top that. Starting lineup is: 7.19 Tobeck 6.14 Brown 5.44 New 4.37 Young
 
Tuesday, April 30 View Page
Pumpkin plants are doing well. Going to be a little bit before they go in the patch. I am recovering from emergency appendectomy surgery.
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
2023 Andrusz in the patch
 
Saturday, May 11 View Page
Tomatoes transplanted in the greenhouse. 7.19 Tobeck, 6.14 Brown, 5.44 New, & 4.32 Young.
 
Saturday, May 11 View Page
998 Grubbs are in the ground.
 
Sunday, May 12 View Page
2350 Geinger transplanted to the patch.
 
Sunday, May 19 View Page
135.5" Butler & 95.5" Grubbs (backup) long gourds transplanted today
 
Friday, May 24 View Page
Bushel gourds transplanted this morning. 310 Marsh on the left & 470.5 Connolly on the right.
 
Saturday, August 24 View Page
It's been awhile since I posted anything on here. I have 3 pumpkins growing. 1st is my 998 Grubbs at DAP 58. The cross is 998 Grubbs x 2023 Andrusz.
 
Saturday, August 24 View Page
2nd is 2023 Andrusz at DAP 70. Cross on this one is 2023 Andrusz x 2350 Gienger.
 
Saturday, August 24 View Page
And 3rd is 2350 Gienger at DAP 60. Cross is 2350 Gienger x 2023 Andrusz.
 
Saturday, August 24 View Page
998 Grubbs x 2023 Andrusz
 
Saturday, August 24 View Page
2023 Andrusz x 2350 Gienger
 
Sunday, September 29 View Page
Reba 2023 Andrusz x 2350 Gienger
 
Sunday, September 29 View Page
Blaze 998 Grubbs x 2023 Andrusz
 
Wednesday, October 9 View Page
135.5" Butler x self
 
Sunday, October 13 View Page
Fun times at Fort Collins nursery weighoff! Reba weighed 799lbs and finished 10th. We also won the Howard Dill award
 
Sunday, October 13 View Page
799 Grubbs (24)(2023 Andrusz x 2350 Gienger)
 
Sunday, October 20 View Page
Great time at the Smith Farms weigh off yesterday! We finally hit 1000lbs as Blaze weighed in at 1054lbs. We finished in 2nd and won the Howard Dill award. Congrats to all the growers who brought something to the scale!
 
Sunday, October 20 View Page
1054 Grubbs (24)(998 Grubbs x 2023 Andrusz)
 
Friday, November 1 View Page
2024 pumpkin season is over... we are happy with how things turned out this year! We grew our 1st 1000lber (1054), won 2 HD awards and set a new Nebraska state record for tomato @ 3.63lbs. We will be collecting seeds from the pumpkins and long gourd this weekend and continuing patch prep for 2025.
 

 

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