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You want to get quality seed. If you really want to grow the big big ones, you'll need to purchase seed from a plant that produced a giant pumpkin. The ones sold in the stores in packets as Big Max or Atlantic Giant will get you big pumpkins, but not giant. It's a good place to start, though, if...

I don't even have male flowers on mine yet. Sigh.

The beetles look like this, or have spots and I bought yellow sticky traps to trap them, and I squish them whenever I can. The traps work pretty good with the squishing. Honestly, though, you could have a lot of bugs that's doing damage to a wide variety of plants.

Too early this year for massive failure, but I'll gladly share last years, hopefully some of it will make you smile: A gorgeous pumpkin with a potbelly problem: Bugs Galore: Death of a tomato: Bad soil: Mother Nature: Cutters: Disease: My first year growing carrots...

I'm sorry, there's always next year!

I have icicle radishes in with all of my cucurbits but they don't seem to be attracting anything. They're almost ready for picking, still waiting for them to bolt. I need some assassin bugs!

Now for someone who doesn't know how to do this... can you post a recipe? Sounds delicious.

x3 million. Maybe this year! A girl can hope.

Too much fertilizer? They won't make fruit if there's a lot of fertilizer. Bad weather? Too hot, too dry? Wish I had known to plant chard to defect bugs, went outside and squished 11 squash bugs in about 3 minutes; and that's the 4th time I've been outside today to squish.

Totally agree! I was lucky enough to have some wild blackberries on my property... once they start producing I pick daily and freeze what I don't eat. Nothing better than a blackberry cobbler or crisp in the middle of winter.

Congrats! There's something wonderful about watching a momma and her babies. I love the soft clucking she does to them. :love

Yeah, it's hard to win here with the weather (while the rest of you are are sweating we're still in the 55-65 range at night), the animals (deer/groundhogs), the bugs and slugs, the hail... and then destructive chickens (which thankfully aren't so destructive this year). Just went out and...

The above squash bug picture was last year's horror. I've vowed to be more proactive this year. I'm squashing the bugs daily. So far it's been minimal, although the cucumber beetles are out of control.

I always thought their eggs were brown... and they were more elongated?

Never seen these guys before, any idea what it is? They're on my topsy turvey tomatoes. Threw them in the chicken run, where they were ignored.

:welcome and to the pumpkin contest.

You're welcome to join, it doesn't cost anything, and it's fun. You never know, you might win!

Can everyone check the first post and make sure if you're participating you're on there?

Welcome, gotcha added. To get a bigger pumpkin, you'll have to sacrifice quantity for quality, meaning choose only 1 or 2 of the best looking pumpkins on the vine, and cut the others off. That way the plant puts energy into less pumpkins, meaning more growth. It's hard to do. The cucumber...

And I'm at 779. What a cool little tool, thanks for sharing.