I reckon it's about time...

[Pharmerphil]

To show Ya'll some pics, kind of a photo introduction. Here on the Phunny Pharm, we do everything organic!
lots of work, considering we have 6,250 feet of garden space, First I will show you Our Favorite garden project, GIANT PUMPKINS!
and then the main portion of the garden, in early spring!(those are bales of straw under the tarp, our mulch!)

first, Me and my Loser! 527 pounds, I got 16th. place!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/WeighoffDay016.jpg

This is my wife, and her 461 pounder, captured 19th. place (i should preface this by saying: This was the first year she ever gardened!, we met only two years ago, then were married last year!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/Pumpkinstuff017.jpg

[Pharmerphil]

Most frequently asked question...
How do you move them ?
1. Friends
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/Pumpkinstuff034.jpg
2.Machinery (ol'Betsy)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/Pumpkinstuff049.jpg

[Pharmerphil]

Here are a few of the main garden in early spring,inside the fence and the area behind, 3745 sq. ft.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/April04030.jpg
Some raised beds, planted in cauliflower
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/April04017.jpg
Laura (wife) trenching in one of the raised beds to secure remay,(she swings a mean shovel for a woman who is fresh from the city!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/6be264a7.jpg

[Pharmerphil]

Some of the winnings from the county fair!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/August22005.jpg

I'm guessin' it wouldn't be right not to show you the 2005 worlds champion Pumpkin, Larry Checkon, 1,469 pounds!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Phlaura/1469Checkon1_320x240.jpg

Well thats about all for now, anyone interested in raising Giants, organically, of course, or anything gardening, please, ask questions!
Next sey will be the rest of the garden, and in full production!

[GreenZone]

Wow! nice pics! must've been very exciting. I'll confess to maybe a twinge of friendly jealousy...

[Pharmerlaura]

Oh man..you posted a picture of my Chicken leg's..now your in trouble!!
New here..I dont know how much I can add to the Gardening..since Im so new to all of it. I have learned alot tho these past 2 summer's working with everything. Like's & dis-like's of what to grow.
We have a fairly LARGE garden..next year some of it has to rest so knowing us..we will till up another area..some thing's I want to plant!! :D :D

[Pharmerphil]

:eek: OOPS! Ummmm, Hi Honey...I didn't see none of those chickens in the picture :rolleyes:

[trudyjean]

Nice pics, so are your going to tell us your secret to growing these giants. trudyjean

[Pharmerphil]

Ummm for a buck! LOL....You can find your answers Trudy...just hunt!!!
But yes, I will be sure to post the entire method...in a timely manner, come spring!

[AndrewK]

Those are some great-looking squash! :)

[Pharmerphil]

Thank You!

[digger]

nice pics...i can see you and wife enjoy all this gardening...THATS WHAT I JOINED ..TO ENJOY MY GARDENING WITH OTHERS..thanks again for pics

[Jodi]

WEll, now be thankful for chicken legs! They could be hippo hips, or thunder thighs or the like. Gardening helps keep us a little more trim and healthier.

Have to say I'm a little jealous though. . .have some pix I'd like to share but a computer dumb-dumb and can't figure out how to get them so you can see them.

And remember,
no matter what happens,
what you are growing,
or where you are at. . .gardening is always a continual adventure!
One I never want to pass up!

Why, I even just planted some more garlic. who would ever think of garlic planted in December, nearly January in the mountains (rather the "knobs") of TN?
Surely it is like Christmas all year long in the garden. Thank the good Lord!

[Pharmerlaura]

I was a City Slicker all my life..then we got together & I would'nt go back..too much noise..traffic..cop car's every 3 minutes..Here we can do the peacefull thing's. It ( gardening ) is alot of work but look at all the wonderfull thing's you get out of it..Food & lot's of fresh air..something that is missing in the City life.

[Pharmerphil]

Jodi.....I sent you some info on posting pics

[littlechickenfarmer]

Wonderful pictures, when it comes to the giant pumpkins, I wish I could have one of those losers....lol.

We lost most of our seed stock this past year.. We decided that a move south to Louisana would be nice. We were just getting settled into our place when Katrina hit. Oh it wiped us out. Got sick, got fed up so we moved North to tennessee. Hope these very humid summers of tennesse will produce a good garden for us this year.

[Horsea]

I just love seeing photos of people's gardens...yours is a helluva place. Such tidy beds! Such a giant pumpkin! Such nice big trees all around! Oh, well, someday...

[toby55]

What amazing pumpkins! And what a wonderful garden! I'm very envious -- my little city garden would fit in a corner of yours!

[Pharmerphil]

Toby, sometimes I admire the little city gardens, and think how nice it would be to just have that small spot to tend, this is usually my thoughts...around the last of July...Then, around oct., while putting it to rest, I SWEAR, next Year We will go smaller...
We have decided to plant about a third this year, and give the remainder a season of green manure crops...Only Planting time will tell...IF WE ARE Liars!

[toby55]

Pharmerphil -- I know where you're coming from! Even with my "baby" garden, come midsummer with the humidity and heat and WEEEEEDS, I dont' hardly even want to look at the thing! But - by the time winter rolls around and the first seed catalog arrives, that bug bites me HARD!

(Green manure crops - what would kind would you choose?)

[littlechickenfarmer]

How many pies ya think that big one will make...

[Brenda]

I bet it would make more than all of us could eat. LOL For sure it would rot at my house, because I do not like pumpkin pie. Or, I should say I do not like the pumpkin pie spieces. Give me good ole Sweet Tater Pie any day.:D

If you've never had sweet tater pie, you need to try some. Excellent! and I have the perfect recipe if you want it.

[Mary]

Enjoyed your pics,your garden looks great,those pumpkins are amazing,you must of worked day and night,real back breakers thats for sure.Good to hear from you two.

[Sandbar]

If you've never had sweet tater pie, you need to try some. Excellent! and I have the perfect recipe if you want it.I want it! :)

Oh, almost forgot ... please? :D

[louanne]

OM..goooooodnesssssssssssss....
amazing pics...wow...one of those pumpins would take up my whole yard .....

[Pharmerphil]

they do take up space!
a minimum of 250 sq. ft. is about the smallest you can go and get a Pumpkin Factory! ;)