WAY Ahead of Schedule!
The first post of the 2021 giant pumpkin growing season can be read here if your interested. I've grown or attempted to grow Atlantic Giant Pumpkins for a number of years but started to get more serious and dedicated to the process in 2016 after I learned that seeds of GIANT pumpkins could fetch a pretty good price and after Donovan Mader of Garden City grew a Kansas State Fair record pumpkin in 2015 weighing in a 1034 pounds. That following year (2016) my attempt was 243 pounds (previous pumpkins were less than 100 pounds). I figured out a few things and in 2017 I grew a pumpkin that weighed 542.5 pounds and that one took 2nd in the Kansas State Fair (Mader's was around 725 pounds that year). Then in 2018 I struggled with the upkeep but managed a 497 pounder but then in 2019 I basically gave up early after I neglected the patch for a few weeks (I was busy with life). Last year was a pretty good season considering there were many issues early on. The two biggest pumpkins