GPNZ BLOG
Back from holiday update
I came back from a holiday to find a whole bunch of weeds in the giant pumpkin patch.
Pre Christmas Update 2012
Here’s my pre Christmas update, find out what has been going wrong, and what else has been happening.
It is almost time to transplant
It is that time of the season to transplant my seedlings.
Technical Hiccup, and what’s been happening
I’ve had a slight technical hiccup with the website, and have a seedling update.
The seeds are growing
The seedlings have started growing.
More prep work on the patch
More patch prep in the giant pumpkin patch in the lead up to the season starting.
Seeds have been planted into their pots
The seeds I have selected for this season have been planted into their pots.
Mitre 10 Mega – Big Pumpkin Competition 2013
Mitre 10 has started to run a giant pumpkin competition, find out more about it here.
Seed Starting – Helping them out
In this post I talk about seed starting for this upcoming season.
A New World Record – 2009 Ron Wallace
Well, that didn't take long to break the world record again did it? Ron Wallace and his world record 2009 pound pumpkin Ron is a big name is the giant pumpkin growing circles in the US and is well known around the world, his brother Dick is also up there and no doubt...
New World Record Giant Pumpkin – For the time being
It is that time of year we all love, it is pretty much the start of the season here for us, where we actually get to plant something and watch it grow. For the northern hemisphere growers it is coming to the end of the season, with the many way off's occurring all...
Soil Testing Part Three, The Soil Test Results
The third part of the soil testing posts. In this one I have my soil test results back.
Soil Testing Part Two, Taking the soil test
This is the second part to the soil testing series and I talk about how to take the soil test.
Soil Testing – Part one, Why soil test and what is in the kit
In this first part about soil testing I show you what is included in a DIY kit, and talk about why you should do a soil test.
Hungry bin compost bin – the easy way to compost
I found an interesting compost bin at Fieldays last week, the Hungry Bin.
Checking out fieldays
I went along to see what I could see at Fieldays, find out who I talked to and the one question a lot of them asked me.
