What I am going to cover throughout the giant pumpkin growing season

13May by Sam

There is a lot of information out there about giant pumpkin growing, and there is a lot of information to cover when you are writing blog posts about it, and I am going to try my best to cover everything I can.

All this will happen over the course of the growing season with the idea being that every blog post happens before the actual time you need to be doing what I am talking about, giving you enough time to digest the information and to get sorted.

What I am going to cover 

This is a brief over view … Read the rest

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Giant Pumpkins NZ – The start of another season

6May by Sam

Welcome to the site

Hi there, this may be your first time growing giant pumpkins, or maybe you are a regular grower who likes checking the site out, either way I am starting off the 2012-13 season right now.  This is the website for growing giant pumpkins here in NZ.

My name is Sam, and I run this site, it is part an information resource website, and partly a blog.  To explain more about it, check out the video I made for you below.

I actively update and add information all the time to the various sections on the website, … Read the rest

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Mapua Produces a 616kg Pumpkin

16Apr by Sam

John Mckay has had another successful year, by growing a 616kg pumpkin and taking the title at Mapua MEga Pumpkin Competition, which by my calculations makes it the second heaviest pumpkin grown this year.

As well as doing that, he has been doing the media rounds, which will only boost the popularity of pumpkin growing here in NZ.

Read the story on the stuff.co.nz website here

Or check out the awesome piece Campbell Live did right here click on view video once you get to that page.

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Great Pumpkin Carnival Hamilton Gardens 2012

2Apr by Sam

Well another season is down, and another Great Pumpkin Carnival was held in Hamilton this year, it was a great event with a lot of people coming down to check it out.

A big thank you to everyone who helped put it together, entered something or just came down to have a look.  The heaviest pumpkin was 290kg grown by Tim.

Here is the video of the day, with highlights from the day, including an interview I did with Tim, and plenty of footage of everybodys favourite, the downhill rolling.  Big thanks to Tara for taking photos for me, and … Read the rest

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New NZ giant pumpkin record

19Mar by Sam

A new NZ giant pumpkin record has been made over the weekend, with a 721kg (1589.5 pound) monster which was entered into the RD1 competition in Whangarei.

This was grown by Eve, Jason and Alan Barton, and was grown from the 1724 Harp and crossed with the 1536.5 Van Kooten seed.

More pictures and info can be found in Daphne’s diary over at Bigpumpkins.com  http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2012&grower=30460&action=L

Look forward to seeing what else appears this season, and looking forward to the start of next season.

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Pretty much the end of the season

4Mar by Sam

Hi there, I know it has been a while since I updated this, and I really needed to, but I had some stuff going on that was un pumpkin related, which was more important then this, I know, it is hard to believe, but sometimes pumpkin go on the back of the list.

Here is a video I shot today, of the pumpkins and how they are looking.

The plants are dying off, and the pumpkins themselves aren’t growing any more, so I think it is time to officially say the season is over for me.

I know it has … Read the rest

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Back again

8Feb by Sam

Hi there, really quick post.  It appears that the moving of hosting has gone really well, everything seems to be working.  Let me know if anything is broken.

The site is loading a lot faster for me, seeing as it is now based in Auckland, and not overseas, less distance to travel, hence the faster load times.

That is all for now.

Cheers
Sam

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Website might be down for a little bit

6Feb by Sam

Hi there

I thought I had better write a brief post explaining why the site might be down for a short period over the next couple of days.

Web hosting is changing
To have a website that you run yourself, you need to pay for web hosting, web hosting you can get from anywhere, from a huge range of providers, you think buying a used car is hard, try picking a web hosting company.

Originally I was using a NZ company to provide my hosting when I only had one website (an old one that doesn’t exist any more) once … Read the rest

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Shade – What I am doing this year to provide shade for my pumpkins

30Jan by Sam

If you want to get the best out of your pumpkin you will need to provide it some shade.

You can find more information on shade in the how to section on the site, or follow the link here.

How I am providing shade this year
This year I thought I would try a different method to the previous two years efforts and do what a lot of people, especially in the northern hemisphere had given me as advice, and that was to use a white or lightly coloured sheet to cover the pumpkin. You could also use old towels … Read the rest

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Patch Update 25/01/2012 – A late update

30Jan by Sam

Hi guys, how is everything going out there for you?

This update is about 5 days late, due to Youtube of all things not being very helpful, and taking forever to upload the video, and when it finally does update, it says the video was deleted. So, an early start this morning made sure that the video was uploaded, and here is the post finally up on the website. The video editing software I use was also giving me grief as well, so no actual intro title on this video.

Also it wouldn’t let me draw on the video, like … Read the rest

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