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Yes, we have a book on building greenhouses with some good directions for small hoop houses. Will be trying that next year. Wish the soil was better here, I have a small garden and then a couple of raised beds. I think if I had better dirt I would have had better luck, too. Too many rocks.

Thanks for reviving this thread... I know I'm going to fall in the melon trap (so to speak) again next year. But I'll try and buy more reasonable seeds. Here's what happened... My lone watermelon on the cutting board which is probably 6 inches by 10: The chickens told me it was delicious...

No hurry... the stupid prizes still haven't come. I gotta call today.

Thanks for getting me started looking at seeds ALREADY. I usually make it to January. Gunna be a long winter (to forget that I can't grow melons up here and yet buy more melon seeds).

I honestly don't see how it would be any different... I do beans in the oven or in the crockpot. Same thing. Last year I made the most divine apple butter... http://allrecipes.com/recipe/all-day-apple-butter/detail.aspx

Do you have a picture? We didn't get a lot of people weighing in at the end of this thing... you could be the winner!

Too bad that's so far from me... looks like a grand time. Thanks for the photos.

This year was the first year I made pies from the squash I grew. I had some blue hubbards that I didn't know what to do with (those plants were a random purchase at Home Depot earlier this year). I turned 2 out of 3 so far into delicious pies. The best one, so far was this...

Ok, weigh ins need to be in by midnight tomorrow... 10.15.11. I still am missing a lot of weigh ins. I've updated post #1 to reflect what I have so far, but here it is again: 2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest Participants: SuperChemicalGirl (growing Burpee Prizewinner Hybrid and Dill's Atlantic...

I'm sorry you don't understand the rules... to be eligible for prizes, you had to say you were joining the contest a few months ago. However, those not participating, I still encourage you to weigh in... I'll add you at the bottom of post #1. Will try to do this again next year, hopefully...

Only have a few weigh ins... you've got a week, everyone!

I'm very impressed that pumpkin survived that hen bite!

At least you could run through it without having to worry about total skin coverage and a lye soap shower afterwards! But I'd rather have poison ivy than stinging nettle, too. We each have a weed that's the bane of our existence.

Trade you that for my poison ivy.

It looks great, actually, nice job. And I would have ignored the ants, too, who knew they liked pumpkin? I was lucky to not have lost my pumpkin to chickens... well ONE chicken in particular that had a hankering to destroy my "prizewinner."

Sorry to hear that, there's always next year! I don't know why everything in my garden was miniature this year, even stuff in the front garden. I had a watermelon smaller than a basketball (and that's not the type I planted) and a canteloupe that fit in my hand. I'm going to go heavy on the...

You got a picture to back that up? ;) There will be "prizes," you know. I'm ordering them tomorrow. And I refuse to be a winner.

I'm making a blue hubbard pie tomorrow. I roasted it and pureed it today but my darned pie crust hadn't thawed yet - out on the counter for a couple hours and still hard as a rock. Hopefully I'll be able to roll it out tomorrow and finish the pie. Any ideas on what to do with the other two I...

I'll also be updating post #1 on this thread for each weigh in that I receive up until 15 October 2011. Good luck!!

Ok, I had to pull up everything today. All my plants were dead and rotting. I'm going to start my weigh in now. Remember you have until 15 October 2011 to weigh in. My "fall harvest" with lots of teeny pumpkins: One very messed up looking pumpkin: And my "prizewinner" (notice even it...