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  3.    <title>BigPumpkins.com Diary for 'Dutch Brad'</title>
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  17.      <title>05/31/2023</title>
  18.      <description>Almost all giant seeds started for this year.
  19. Field pumpkin: 268 Baggs and 116 Wursten
  20. Marrow: 235 Baggs and 201 Baggs
  21. Runnerbeans
  22. Radish (in a few weeks time)
  23. Beets
  24. Cucumbers: 36" Barratt, 26.2...</description>
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  27.      <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 05:35:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  30.      <title>04/19/2022 - with photo</title>
  31.      <description>Bushel Gourd seeds softening up in a fermented stinging nettle/brown sugar brew at about 25 Celsius (80 F).</description>
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  34.      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  37.      <title>06/28/2021 - with photo</title>
  38.      <description>Harvested some normal rhubarb and a giant one today. The giant one weighed 885 grams (1.95 lbs). Big one is a bit longer than my arm and I'm 6'3".</description>
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  41.      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:54:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  44.      <title>06/22/2021 - with photo</title>
  45.      <description>First giant vegetable results this year. Rhubarb 721g (1.59 lbs). The smaller ones were 651g en 539g.</description>
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  48.      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:51:40 GMT</pubDate>
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  51.      <title>03/16/2021 - with photo</title>
  52.      <description>This year I am trying no dig in the big polytunnel. Added about an inch of dehydrated cow manure and about 2 inches of compost. I hope to grow the 1939 Lyons/Hunt (2005 Haist x 1984 Barron). I haven't...</description>
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  55.      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:07:40 GMT</pubDate>
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  58.      <title>04/16/2020 - with photo</title>
  59.      <description>Covid-19 has hit our town hard. 0.5% of the population has not survived the disease and we're not over it yet.
  60.  
  61. In the garden things are going as planned. I set up an open ended polytunnel (pictured...</description>
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  64.      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  67.      <title>09/28/2019 - with photo</title>
  68.      <description>Field pumpkin on the left 156.5 lbs - 36% heavy (176.4 Wursten x 158 Horde).
  69. Field pumpkin on the right 205.0 lbs - 13% heavy (133 Wursten x 158 Horde). European record and 3rd in the world ranking l...</description>
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  72.      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  75.      <title>09/12/2019 - with photo</title>
  76.      <description>Harvested the smallest field pumpkin. Can only enter two and I think the other two are a bit bigger.
  77. This one was grown on a vacant lot and measured 88lbs but weighed 109lbs. It was grown off my 133 ...</description>
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  80.      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:52:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  83.      <title>09/12/2019 - with photo</title>
  84.      <description>Bad news. All three marrows split at the stem. The best one was still doing about 20-25 lbs per week.
  85. The 220 Baggs was grown as a pollinator on a vacant lot but still made it to 90lbs.
  86. Pictured are...</description>
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  89.      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:49:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  92.      <title>09/09/2019 - with photo</title>
  93.      <description>The FP in the greenhouse was a plan C after plan A and B (both bushel gourds) died on me. The plant suffered heavily from the heat wave and didn't even produce side vines until later in the season, me...</description>
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  96.      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:07:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  99.      <title>09/09/2019</title>
  100.      <description>I also grew three FPs this year. But the record breaking heat wave in July toasted all of the main vines and fruit, so they are all growing on side vines. The smallest one stopped growing a few weeks ...</description>
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  103.      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:02:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  106.      <title>09/09/2019 - with photo</title>
  107.      <description>Find the marrow... it's in there somewhere.
  108. This year I grew three plants just for seeds. In order to get viable seeds, you have to make sure the marrow doesn't split, at least until day 40.
  109. To do s...</description>
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  112.      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  115.      <title>08/02/2019 - with photo</title>
  116.      <description>One of the oddities I grow. A tomato called 'Voyage'.
  117. Two of the three marrows I have going for seeds have been pollinated on what's left of the plants after they got burnt last week. Still have to ...</description>
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  120.      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:14:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  123.      <title>08/02/2019</title>
  124.      <description>One of the oddities I grow. A tomato called 'Voyage'.
  125. Two of the three marrows I have going for seeds have been pollinated on what's left of the plants after they got burnt last week. Still have to ...</description>
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  128.      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 04:23:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  131.      <title>07/29/2019</title>
  132.      <description>The Dutch record for highest temperature was broken on two consecutive days last week at 105°F in the shade. My patch hit 103°F in the shade and the tips of 6 of the 7 marrow and field pumpkin plants ...</description>
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  135.      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 03:38:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  138.      <title>07/04/2019 - with photo</title>
  139.      <description>This was a neglected allotment I am "borrowing" this year. From front to back: 220 Baggs marrow + back-up and a 133 Wursten FP + back-up.</description>
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  142.      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:19:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  145.      <title>07/04/2019 - with photo</title>
  146.      <description>It's been a hot, dry spring and till now a dry summer too.
  147. None of my bushel gourds survived.
  148. Currently I have 4 FPs and 3 marrows going.
  149. The field pumpkins are 158 Horde, 176 Wursten, 2x 133 Wurs...</description>
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  152.      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:16:38 GMT</pubDate>
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  155.      <title>05/09/2019 - with photo</title>
  156.      <description>Getting ready to sow the 20 varieties of carrots to show at the weigh-off, along with some 25+ varieties of heirloom potatoes.
  157. Bushel gourds are giving problems. Neither of the 209 English seeds germ...</description>
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  160.      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 03:53:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  163.      <title>03/01/2019 - with photo</title>
  164.      <description>For the first time in 15 years, no Atlantic Giant pumpkins or squash.
  165.  
  166. I got rid of one of my larger greenhouses and allotments. This year I hope to grow two bushel gourds (one in the big pumpkin gr...</description>
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  169.      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:17:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  172.      <title>10/02/2018 - with photo</title>
  173.      <description>We had a great weigh-off this year in Holland, with Ian Paton coming all the way from England with his 2070lb pumpkin.
  174. The Dutch growers had a very challenging year and although I won several first ...</description>
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  177.      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 03:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
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