Not one cucumber beetle this year here. I've never really seen squash bugs either but have not one cucumber beetle on pumpkin or 8 cucumber plants this year.

It was the only plant that I grew this year. Off to the compost pile. The vine borers even chewed into the pool noodle that I jam between my pumpkin and main vine. They must have no taste buds.

Ive been sandbagging like the Hunt's all along. Fittingly, it hit 400 inches this morning when I lifted the sheet and found the damage. Would have been nice to see what it weighed in a month since the plant and fruit really looked like the 1625 gantner that was in both sides of the seed. Sorry for the side photos. Didn't take landscape photos with my phone. Zinnias and dahlias are all I have left. Dahlias are really late and i have only one bloom so far. More to come if we dodge frost. Last night was too close.

The borers slowed the pumpkin down initially, but it held on to those lower gains for a long time and was still doing 19 a day over the last 5 days. I have at least 100 borer holes in vines that I've seen. Will get a better look when the plant gets ripped out but borers aren't a death sentence at least.

Just blew a hole in my 1694. It was a bad sag line and it was getting worse.

They're growing well. These things are hard to kill once established, even with merit.

You've created a nice line of orange seed over the last few years dan. You can see the similarities in some photos.

That's a great weight at day 50 Dan. Dont give up. Some of those viruses are mis diagnosed. I wouldn't throw in the towel until it's over.

So it looks like I somehow have a bunch of vine borers. I didn't think they were this far north, but I'm pretty sure this is them. I now see small burrowing in my main vine which I first thought was sapping from my usual heavy watering. So I have a lot. Its probably the end of the plant unless I can get some merit or any systemic with imidacloprid as the active ingredient quickly. Of course, with the pesticide ban it seems almost impossible. If anyone has some and and can rush mail me some there will be a generous tip for you, ha.

We had one day of rain in the last month. So dry here after the wettest spring. Day 27 from a couple days ago for 1694

So I'm guessing the lack of photo entries this year means most people are frustrated with small plants that are behind due to the terribly cold may and june? I hope so, because I am. The weather flipped to summer this week with too much heat. Very hot. I almost pulled my only plant about 10 days ago. I was talked out of it with 1 phone call and 1 email. I had the knife out twice actually, stood behind the stump ready to cut. So I stuck with it. I pollinated a so so plant with one of my later pollinations in years. I'm hoping for a warm November.

I'm only growing one plant this year, but it will have lots of room to roam. Really late spring up here like every where on the north American east coast it sounds like. This is one of my latest plantings and certainly my latest till. Cherry trees are in full bloom and mosquitos and black flies only came out this week. Lots of cloud and cool days and nights. Frost warning two nights ago and Monday night is looking at +2. We'll see how the season goes. My only plant will be last years unproven 1694.

You always want to make sure to kink your main vine every spring. Get that out of the way early.

My water is terrible. High 7s pH and my bicarbonates are double that of A&Ls "severe" rating. There's not much you can do with water I think. I pull from a marsh that's too stagnant. I wouldn't worry about your levels since it really opens a can of worms if you start to adjust water numbers.

Forgot about the ribbons. How do we get them?

John did you send the runner beans into the gvgo a few years back for their seed packs? I got mine to split and start a root but it hasn't broken the soil in a while. Not sure if it's going to make it and I'd like to grow one of these this year if you or anyone has the stash of beans I'd send a bubble.

Thanks John. I was curious what the name was so that I can look it up.

any video of the jig? Congratulations Harley. I heard the rumours of a big one and was wondering where you were going to surface.

All loaded up. Final numbers 420". Off to Woodbridge to get beat by Phil and Jane lol. I thought they were on an Alaskan cruise all summer???