Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 57 Entries. Thursday, January 1 View Page Grower Diary of the Year results for 2025..... Matt D. does it again! Taking top honors all by himself by a single vote! IanP and Vineman also right at the top again in 2025! Congratulations! Wednesday, January 7 View Page One of my hunting buddies from CT is starting his own YouTube channel. Please take a look and subscribe if you like whitetail, black bear and wild turkey hunting as well as freshwater fishing! YouTube Tuesday, January 20 View Page Every year after the weigh-offs are done, website traffic drops off below 200 registered users per day. Then when the seed auction season begins the traffic spikes again. Someone asked, do the week night auctions get as many people as the weekends? Not quite, but they did quite well. This chart shows the total unique registered users per day on BigPumpkins.com. Maybe your club or organization should buy an ad? Contact me if you are interested. Saturday, January 31 View Page This winter has been nasty compared to recent years! Bitter cold, high winds and plenty of snow. Come on Spring! Friday, February 20 View Page Thanks Henry! If you are on the east coast, you have to check out Henry's iOS weather app. Support independent meteorologists! Henry's Weather Channel in the App Store! Saturday, February 28 View Page Mr. Orange, Norm Gansert posing with the BigPumpkins.com server rack! Nice to see you today my friend! Saturday, February 28 View Page Some of the morning chat crew got together this morning in Springfield, VT. We swapped stories and seeds and ate a great breakfast. Bart, Lloyd, John, Wilbur, Norm, Gene, me and Chris. Saturday, March 28 View Page A bit chilly here this morning. Heading to the SNGPG Spring Meeting! Should be a fun time! Monday, March 30 View Page We are working on a new version of the BigPumpkins.com iOS app! I am doing some testing of a pre-release now. Feedback from the growers I showed it to at the SNGPG Spring Meeting was all positive. Hopefully we can get it finished in April. Tuesday, March 31 View Page This is the new Home screen in the BigPumpkins.com iOS app. Shake your phone and the collage shuffles. Tuesday, April 7 View Page Memories of last year! Thanks again Gene. I will never forget it. Wednesday, April 8 View Page The new iPhone app for BigPumpkins has dark mode support. We are in final testing now. Hopefully we can get it in the App Store soon. Thanks for all the hard work Big Rico! Friday, April 10 View Page The new iOS app will have weight estimation built in. Even tomato estimation by circumference. You can keep track of your fruit in your diary with Private entries and then make them public after the weigh-off if you would like. Monday, April 13 View Page GG right before Teal started carving! Testing new app. Wednesday, April 29 View Page The new version of the BigPumpkins iOS app is now available in the Apple App Store! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigpumpkins/id806271972 If you already have the old version, delete that app from your iPhone or iPad first and then download the new version 3.0. Friday, May 1 View Page When attempting to Login with the new iOS app, you can enter either your Username or Email address. Thursday, May 14 View Page We updated the iOS app this week with some minor improvements. You can update directly from version 3.0 without removing and re-installing. If you are still using version 2.01, what you waiting for?!? Friday, May 29 View Page Finally got my potatoes planted. Friday, July 3 View Page I have been traveling for family related issues. I spent 9 days in June in Florida. I came home to find the potato beetles all over my potato plants. Monday, July 6 View Page Has anybody tried this product for insects yet? Wednesday, July 8 View Page For Father's Day my oldest son and his girlfriend said they were going to build me a custom garden gate! Here is the finished product! They did an excellent job with building and installing my new gate. Thanks! Thursday, July 9 View Page Time to make some jalapeno poppers! Thursday, July 9 View Page Gene's plants are filling up the greenhouse nicely! Thursday, July 9 View Page Someone seems to be taking tomato growing a little bit more seriously this year!! Saturday, July 11 View Page We have a ton of rabbits in our neighborhood this time of year. Have you ever seen one with three ears? We named this one split ear. Sunday, July 12 View Page On a walk today and came across this pink mimosa silk tree in bloom. Thursday, July 16 View Page Stopped by Gene's on Wednesday this week. His tomatoes are looking good! Megas everywhere! Friday, July 17 View Page This one is well on its way! Friday, July 17 View Page The smoke from the wild fires in Canada is making for some crazy sunsets! Friday, July 17 View Page The other day when I was at Gene's he let me take the sheet off his 2154 Sperry fruit. Looking good for DAP 20. Saturday, July 25 View Page A nice looking melon going at the Syme Farm! Thanks for the plants bigmoon! Tuesday, July 28 View Page Lookout CT and other New England growers. We have some serious rain coming! Wednesday, July 29 View Page The flood warnings are out! Be careful out there. Wednesday, July 29 View Page If you have a chance, go outside tonight, spend a few minutes and take in the buck moon. Thursday, July 30 View Page The SNGPG Patch Tour and Summer BBQ is coming up quick! Come spend the day with a great bunch of growers and some top notch eats! Email me for more details. Monday, August 3 View Page Here we go again. Pouring rain on the way to work this morning. Tuesday, August 4 View Page All this rain is screwing with some of my pepper plants too! Saturday, August 8 View Page Well, the fungi are really liking this wet weather! Monday, August 10 View Page Some of the State Fair weigh-offs are THIS week! Good luck to all the growers heading to the Iowa State Fair on Friday and the Indiana State Fair on Saturday. Saturday, August 15 View Page Went to the SNGPG Patch Tour and picnic! It was great to see and talk to everyone. Here we are in the parking lot of the Cornerstone Pub in Exeter RI. Saturday, August 15 View Page Peter Rondeau was the first stop. Here is Peter showing off a pumpkin in his patch. Saturday, August 15 View Page Peter is growing my 1903.5 from last year and named her Divine. Clearly the name of a good-girl. Saturday, August 15 View Page Clearly the weeds in Peter's patch were a bit out of control? Saturday, August 15 View Page Dave Aiello was next on tour. He put up this great looking greenhouse. I am SO jealous! Saturday, August 15 View Page Dave has this cool looking fertigation system in the greenhouse. Saturday, August 15 View Page Here is Dave with a pumpkin on his 2181 Masters plant. Saturday, August 15 View Page This is the view from the other side of Dave's greenhouse. Unfortunately, the pumpkin in the foreground split on him. I predict Dave will be winning some weight-offs over the next few years! Good luck Dave! Saturday, August 15 View Page This is the Henry's Weather Channel drone about to takeoff! Thanks Henry for providing aerial coverage all day! Saturday, August 15 View Page The legendary Joe Jutras was next on tour. Joe's greenhouse is amazing too. Saturday, August 15 View Page Joe has a nice looking pumpkin on one side of this greenhouse..... Saturday, August 15 View Page ... and a beautiful squash on the other side! Saturday, August 15 View Page Looks like Joe might be dabbling in the 150 square foot contest too? Saturday, August 15 View Page My buddy Gene was next on tour! Here he is with his pumpkin on the 2154 Sperry. Grow baby grow! Saturday, August 15 View Page Gene has some amazing tomato plants this year! Everyone on tour was talking about them! I insisted on measuring this one that he is about to pick. It is 25.5 inches in circumference or an estimated weight of 5.8 pounds! That is CT state record territory and Gene has bigger ones still growing! Saturday, August 15 View Page The final garden was at the home of Ron Wallace. Ronnie's greenhouse is state of the art! Look out pumpkin world! Ron has all the tools to get things done. Saturday, August 15 View Page This pumpkin Ron has growing is the biggest I have EVER seen in the middle of August!! Saturday, August 15 View Page Another angle on Ron's monster growing on the 2731.5 Stelts. Grow baby grow!! Good luck Ronnie! I would love to see you land this lunker on the scale!