Giving it another go!
Last year ended up being my best giant pumpkin growing season ever! Click here to read about the results that I posted last fall. To recap - the largest weighed 1,187 pounds but had a crack in it so I couldn't take it to the Kansas State Fair. Another smaller pumpkin was taken instead and it came it at 822 pounds and took 2nd place. The bigger one would have taken first and would have been a record for the fair. This season started out earlier than any previous growing season. However, I've never encountered such brutal weather! It's been ridiculous. Going from near freezing to 100 degrees and then back to cold. Hardly any rain has fallen with severe drought conditions continuing. Then there is the wind; the friggin wind. It's been AWFUL and has beat the pee-wad out of the plants and I have lost one plant already. In May alone there were 19 days with 40 MPH or higher winds and 6 days above 50 MPH! The plants... During the winter I bid on specific seeds on 2 on-l