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Ohio

well been awhile since someone asked this. but with all the new people, thought maybe it would be nice to tell alittle about yourself.

I'am Danny Reeb, live in clarksburg ohio. volunteer firefighter, work at Kenworth truck co. in chillcothe ohio. been growin for atleast 15 yrs. biggest is 612,biggeat melon 179.5, do it more for fun then anything else. In to watermelons now, and squash. So look out Chris, here i come. lol

2/13/2011 9:53:26 PM

Muddy Waters

I am Mark Clementz ,Holly Mi.self-employed Handy Man Service Married 4 chrildren,4 grandchildren,growing since 96 kin 848 in 2002 Melon 191, 2010.thinking 8 melons,2 lopes,4 maters,for 2011.no kins this year.2012 6 kins maybe.

2/13/2011 10:08:08 PM

Cedar City, Ut

Howdy!!! Susan Saxton here, Cedar City Utah (thats Southern Utah) married to Curtlave, 6 kids,(3 his 3 mine)love them all, 14 grandkids(you figure it out lol) love them all. This will be my 3rd year with kins, PB is 167.5(and dont forget the .5 please). Currently LMT..Licensed Massage Therapist at Cedar Breaks Lodge and Spa in Brian Head Utah.

2/14/2011 11:26:02 AM

Saskatchewan Fosston Canada

I am Dag Otnes.
Came over from Norway in May 2000.Will be 60 in september.Have one daughter & two grandchildrens in Norway.Bought a nice little farm here in East Central Saskatchewan,Canada.2011 will be my 3rd year with pumpkins,& my PB is 257 Lb.
D/D Otnes Farm,Fosston.SK.E-mail [email protected].

2/14/2011 12:18:14 PM

Saskatchewan Fosston Canada

Should have said retired from Norway too.Thanks.

2/14/2011 12:20:40 PM

Middle TN

My name is Tammy. Im a 40 yr old housewife and soccer mom from middle TN. Married for 21 yrs next week. We have a 17 yr old son, a 14 yr old daughter, and 2 fuzzbutts. Last year was my first real attempt at growing a giant pumpkin. I grew a 170 and a 740. My goal this year is to grow something worthy of taking to a real GPC weigh off :)

2/14/2011 12:25:24 PM

Johnston, Iowa

Hi everybody, I'm Dan Boelman. I'm a RN, I work at Zanfel Laboratories (Zanfel Poison Ivy Wash). When I'm not saving the world from poison ivy, oak, and sumac, I really enjoy being outside with my wife and our three kids. Slowly, but surely they're learning to understand and enjoy this crazy hobby. I've been growing AG's since 1994, but started trying to take it to the extreme the last few years.

Here's a post you might enjoy that's similar to this one:
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=236239

2/14/2011 1:08:29 PM

Lexington,IN

Dewight Blanton from Southern Indiana. Unemployed at the moment. Live alone on 12 acres I call "Lazy Acres". Coach for last 3 years in youth baseball. Current Indiana watermelon record holder at 232 for 10 years now. Looking to improve on that and try for a few more state records...

2/14/2011 2:42:04 PM

Rudolph

Hey Guys!, my name is Josiah Brandt, I work with cranberries in central Wisconsin, My hobby's include basketball,golf,and weightlifting,,as well as pumpkins,,I grew my first pumpkin when I was 15 as part of a competition I had with my brothers and at that time I got it to 501 pounds,,,3 years later My pb is 1288 pounds.

2/14/2011 2:50:21 PM

Frankfort Ohio

Jamie Drum 28 married for 6 years to my bueatyfull wife casey i have a 3 year old girl kaylee and a 6month old son mason work at riffle machine this will be my 3rd year pb 496 i like them orange and round if im not in the patch im watching high school sports or setting at the lake

2/14/2011 3:59:39 PM

Woodburn, Indiana

Kelly from North East Indiana, personal best 980.5 in '09; hoping to smash that this year! I currently work for Lincoln Life (life insurance and annuities) in the contact center, feel free to crank call! LOL. I started growing in 2002, thanks to Tom Beachy, and last year I was nominated to the Pres of the Indiana club.

2/14/2011 6:22:19 PM

East Jordan, MI

Hey folks,
I'm Cecil Weston from Circleville, OH. Have been married for 23 wonderful years to my wife Teresa and have 3 kids. I have spent 29 years in, or contracting for, the United States military. I have lived for between 2-5 years in Wyoming, Missouri, Arkansas, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Hawaii, Geaorgia, Ohio, and Japan, and have spent several 4-6 month tours in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain. Last year was my first year growing Atlantic Giants and it was incredible (1180 lbs). This year I will grow 5. I can't wait till Spring!

2/14/2011 6:39:34 PM

Finksburg, Md

Joe Zgorski from Finksburg, Maryland. I am 49 and married for 26 years and have one son who just graduated from college and would love to find a full time job. This will be my second year growing. My first didn't go so well, I had three plants that started out great, then lost them to squash bugs. Besides the garden I also enjoy fishing,kayaking, golfing, woodworking, muscle cars, the Orioles and Ravens.

2/14/2011 7:16:42 PM

Upa Creek, MO

Smallmouth Puricelli residing in the Saint Louis area and originally from S. Illinois. Worked for the USGS a number of years radio tracking invasive fish species on the Mississippi and Missouri river basins. Switched fields and now work a boring desk job in finance. One wife, two dogs, two cats, one pet Crappie and first kid on the way due in September. 2011 will be my first year not growing anything from the hardware store. I also like Lamp.

2/14/2011 8:01:24 PM

Columbus,ohio

My name is chris cree. My pb is only 197(long story). I was fortunate enough to grow on an alpaca farm we work on to pay for our alpacas boarding. I'm 15(and a half-ish), and am obvously in in high school. My interhsip is at a natrual food co-op and love exept when natrual food people want to be difficult. Other than alpaca farming, I also keep bees. I lost all my hives, possibly due to colony collapse dissorder,or ppb(piss poor beekeeping), and am restart march 30.

2/14/2011 8:28:49 PM

Coventry R.I.

Dewight e/mail me,,,, Thanks

2/14/2011 8:40:09 PM

Kentucky, U.S.A.

David Boyd, Rockfield, Kentucky(just west of the home of the Corvette, Bowling Green). I a rookie I refuse to count last years slack of an attempt to grow squat! But , I did utilize what I could salvage, Practicing proper germination procedures, vine control and burying technics. You'd probably never guess that my Big Dogs(Saint Bernards) are the center of my wife (Becky) and I's life and has been for 30 plus years. She married into the love of this breed and fell in love with them also! Two grown (but not married) children, daughter (known to BP.com as Drumrunner78) Stephanie and son Davey. In my down time when I check out the BP.com I talk on my CB radio both local and long distance. This year I will not see how many plants I can squeese in but see if I can control four plants and grow four decent(over 150 lbs.)pumpkins. I'll also try one squash and one melon. BSD, David

2/14/2011 8:52:52 PM

Rome Ga

David Johnston from Rome ,Ga. I am married and have three awesome girls. 9,4 and 2. I work for Ga. Power Co.and have a beekeeping operation of about 160 hives. I have been growing the giants for ten years PB is 151. Havent been serious but hopefully that is fixing to change shooting for two hundred this year.

2/14/2011 9:02:27 PM

churchville, ny

Tom Swain, Churchville NY (just outside Rochester). Married to Sharon for 39 years - 3 married sons (2 science teachers and a civil engineer). Two new pb of 1196 and 1338 this year during my 25th year of growing giants along with 15 acres of jackolanterns. Taught Earth Science for 37 years, retired 3 years ago. Always looking for smooth, orange giants for the wife to carve in front of our 1841 farmhouse - we are more famous for the carvings than the weight (swaintech diary 12/10/10 shows them). Still trying to figure out this crazy challenge of growing the "big one".

2/14/2011 9:26:54 PM

Ashville, Ohio

Bryan Reeb, from Ashville, Oh. just a little south of Columbus. I am 25 and work for Ohio State's dept of hort and crop science in the field of weed science, no not that weed! looking to start masters this coming fall. pb is 889.5 true greenie kinda slacked off last few years got busy finishing school and starting job looking to team up with my father and give it a good run this year!

2/14/2011 9:32:51 PM

Ashville, Ohio

and the leader of this thread is my uncle

2/14/2011 9:34:14 PM

Ohio

and proud uncle

2/14/2011 10:14:31 PM

Marion, Wisconsin

Matt Westphal. I live one hour west of Green Bay. I'm a carpentar and a volunteer firefighter. I'm 33 years old and am married to Kelli. We have two children (Emma 4 and Carson 2). My wife is an EMT and is in schooling for Nursing. I like to fish and hunt in my free time. 2010 was my first year growing Atlantic Giants. I partnered up with my friend Ken Williamson and we grew a 1375#er. Ken and I are hoping to break the State record sometime soon. LoL.

2/14/2011 10:48:22 PM

Bowling Green, KY

Tracy and Travis Coleman we are twin brothers living in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We own and operate a small family farm that grows vegetables, flowers, bedding plants and a few greenhouse vegetables. We are also both part time faculty at WKU specializing in fruit and vegetable or food production. Pumpkins have been something we have specialized in for many years. As for giant pumpkins this year will be our first and we look forward to the challenge. I have meet many fine people already in my search for seed and knowledge and hope to have fun and meet many more fine people.

2/14/2011 11:26:02 PM

Frankfort Oh

ok,you two just stop ur going to make me cry-omg lol

2/14/2011 11:28:35 PM

Frankfort Oh

Rob Hampp 42 and good looking ,I run a daddy day care ,with my two kids as my clients,been growing pumpkins going on 11 years ,and watermelons for 6 years ,looking for a pumpkin/watermelon women, who likes to pull weeds, ha ha /enjoys hunting ,ok- enough of that crap-I really do enjoy this hobbie/and really like meeting new people /and enjoy getting new members involed/this is a sport witch you can hand down to your children,my dad got me into the sport of growing pumpkins at a very young age of 8,when we lived in a little town called amanda ohio/wish he could have only lived long enough to see where these pumpkins and watermelons are today ,I think he would be proud of me.

2/14/2011 11:37:42 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Jim Gerhardt, Mertztown PA. I moved here from Howard County Maryland in 2006 which was the first year I gave AGs a serious shot. I'm a project manager in pharmaceuticals and write and produce music on the side. As you might guess I am an avid orange grower.

2/14/2011 11:49:35 PM

Smithville, Tn

I'm Malissa from Smithville Tn. I am a medical laboratory tech for 20+ years and I work at an oncology office in Nashville.(For anyone that doesn't know, that's cancer treatment) My husband and I have been growing jack-o-lanterns, ornamental gourds, cushaw pumkins and other varieties of edible 'kins for the last 3 years to take to our local farmers market.We also have concord grapes, blackberries, black raspberries, and red raspberries. In '08 we grew some Big Max but the local bed and breakfast wanted some bigger ones for decoration. In '09 for fun I got some "Atlantic Giant" seeds. We ended up with a few 90 pounders, a 192 and a 210. With some words of encouragement and a few good seeds from John Van Hook,
I was off and running. Despite our crazy weather and my lack of knowledge, I ended up with a 475.9. We hauled that thing to Allardt Tn for the GPC weigh-off. We knew it wouldn't be the biggest, but low and behold, according to GPC standards, it was the prettiest. My first site award the very first year. I can't hardly wait to get started this year with more knowledge and more seeds!!

2/15/2011 12:53:55 AM

Western NY

I'm Ray Fletcher, Walworth NY Married for 19 years no kids - 2 dogs. Rubber molder- Machinist for 17 year until Kodak decided to sell proto-type unit, now make aerospace parts.My wife works at a garden center. 3rd year growing. First year grew 594-second year was a failure so I am looking forward to this year.
Winter hobbies are xc skiing and ice fishing, summer hobbies are camping, travel, photography and I used to fish until I tried growing GP.

2/15/2011 5:22:40 AM

Weedville,pa

My name is Frank, i live in the beautiful elk country of northern Pennsylvania with my two children. I've been a physical therapist for 14 years. This will be our first serious attempt at growing AG's and we have already had a great time learning as much as we possibly can. We also hunt, fish, camp...anthing we can find to do in the outdoors. After a long, COLD winter we can't wait to get in the garden! I'd love to meet some other PA growers to get some growing tips!

2/15/2011 6:09:13 AM

Johnston, R.I.

My name is Norm Gansert, I am Abbynormal.. I live in Johnston RI with my honey and my 100 year old mother. I have been growing these things for a little over 10 years and on the board of directors of the SNGPG...........

2/15/2011 7:43:35 AM

Muddy Waters

Hey Rob!You should run ad in singles paper Looking For Good Woman Interested in gardening,Must be in good shape,able to pull weeds,please send photo of hoe!!LOL No pun intended! lol

2/15/2011 8:05:17 AM

Frankfort Oh

lmao,handy

2/15/2011 8:08:02 AM

Glosta

My name is Bryan Langley been growing for 2 years now, PB pumpkin is 881 and PB melon is 89.5. My job title is Senior R&D Engineering Technician for a semiconductor equipment manufacturer,just a fancy title for wrench monkey. Been married for 11 years and have 2 great kids.

2/15/2011 10:08:32 AM

Johnston, Iowa

I'm jealous of Dewight B. No work and having 12 lazy acres to grow stuff on would be great!!

2/15/2011 10:37:56 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

Glenn Peters been growing A.G.'s since 1988 PB of 1258 married with a Brady-bunch family. enjoy tinkering with antique tractors when i have the spare time and money.

2/15/2011 12:15:05 PM

Netherlands

Bradley Wursten, 38 years old, giant vegetable grower. I grow about 15-30 types of giant vegetables depending on the year. Pumpkin PB is 1256, squash PB is 1234. I grow on four allotment patches at a nearby community garden. Board member EGVGA and help organize Dutch weigh-off.

2/15/2011 1:39:18 PM

Pinetops,n.c.

hello, my name is gary lovitt, i am married with two children t.j. and marina.t.j. was born with neuroblastoma and noonans syndrome(only 3rd documented case of having both ever in the world).i am self employed in the construction field. this will be my first REAL year of growing ag's.setting fair goals for myself.growing 6 plants, hope to get at least 4 mature fruit, and one of which goes over 500 pounds.i also tend to like the orange ones.good luck to all in upcoming season.

2/15/2011 1:54:58 PM

[email protected]

John Maness, Geneva, Ohio. Pharmacist/winemaker. personal best 680est. Been away a few years..glad to be back!

2/15/2011 2:39:58 PM

Virginia,mn

Hi Gang... Brent Robinson 38 from Virginia, MN. married my High school sweet hart. We have 4 kids and live a very busy(fun) life.. Last year was our first try at pumpkins. Managed to get one to 140lbs.. We grew about 14 pumpkins(didn't know we were only supposed to keep one per plant).. After my 4 year old attacked them with his star wars toys we ended up with 8 pumpkins.. This year, with the help of several pumpkin auctions we are hoping for something to talk about.. Be kind and eat candy :)

2/15/2011 3:21:54 PM

Martinsburg, Pa

Hi i'm Jeremy smith I live on a family farm in PA just outside of altoona and state college. married with 2 boys Evan 3 1/2 and Hayden 1 1/2. have been growing ags for 4 years/pb is 680. Both my sons had to go straight to childrens in pittsburgh when they bere born, the year I had my pb I had to leave around august 10th, so I couldnt take care of the pumpkins but I think I had a great shot at 1k that year. My youngest has down syndrome and had to have open heart surgery at 4 months old but is doing amazing and is a blessing. I've also had 2 shoulder operations in the past year, so its been tough giving 100% in the garden. I'm not telling you this to complain, I'm telling you this because its people like you guys that are so generous and kind it reminds me that people do care and when things seem tough, friends will always be there to lift you up. Lets all break our pb this year!!!!!

2/15/2011 4:29:02 PM

Martinsburg, Pa

I forgot my love in life goes like this-- family / archery hunting / big pumpkins.

2/15/2011 6:00:08 PM

Ohio

well so far its been a good response, thank you to all who have responded. glad to meet you all

2/15/2011 9:06:58 PM

norway , maine

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=338157

2/15/2011 11:30:24 PM

Niagara Falls,NY

Hello,I'm Donald Lupo,I've been growing giant pumpkins since 1999.My best is 650 lbs.I have a wonderful fiancee'Hope who supports my obsession with this hobby(even though sometimes I drive her nuts with it!). I also have a large veg-garden.I'm self employed. My business helps people make and save money on home/business telecom services.Our flag ship product is a VIDEO PHONE.Real cutting edge technology.See the person you're talking to real time/color.Hoping to break my PB this year.Good luck to all!

2/16/2011 12:31:57 AM

Cedar City, Ut

Go punk'nLvr. cool phone

2/16/2011 1:00:18 AM

Midway, UT

Jamie Johnson. Arvada, Colorado. Founder and President of Pixo Web Design & Strategy. Wannabe great giant pumpkin grower. Soon to be on NBC's The Marriage Ref arguing with my wife about how much time it takes to grow the Great Pumpkin.

2/16/2011 3:15:06 PM

Niagara Falls,NY

Thanks Susan.It is really cool.My mom and dad live in San Diego and all I have to do is pick up the phone and I can see them! If anyone wants to check it out go to - www.donaldlupo.acnrep.com

2/16/2011 3:56:32 PM

[email protected]

Mossyoak, shoot me an email.

Kevin

2/16/2011 4:14:54 PM

Kokomo, Indiana

Whats up yall, i'm Ryan, from Kokomo, IN. 2nd year growing. Might be my last for awhile. Heading off to the U.S. Air Force Specical Ops Weather unit toward the end of the year. Took up pumpkin growing last year and got hooked! Everyone on here is very fun and nice people! Dont be afraid to ask question on here to the new people!

2/16/2011 11:24:44 PM

Gays Mills,WI

Cody Jacobus, from Gays Mills, Wisconsin. I am 29 years old no kids and never married. I work for Hillside Greenhouse and Lanscaping. I have a border collie named Johnny Boy that is a big part of my life. I live in the driftless area in southwest WI. Have been growing giant pumpkins since 2005. My personel best is 1023 lbs. I grow with my brother Caleb and we are giant vegatable growers. Last year we broke the world record for the long gourd and will be going after some other records in 2011. If Im not on BP I must be at the garden.lol

2/17/2011 11:01:25 AM

Massillon, Ohio

I'm Glenna Rea, from the home of the Football Hall of Fame. AND the home of Christy Harp....Nick too! This will be my 6th year growing AG's, with a PB of 1165 lbs. We have a custom home building company, of which I do the design work and customer consultations. Other hobbies are photography and baking. This year I will grow 3 AG's and 25 "party pumpkin" plants. One of the highlights of my season is our fall "Punkin Pickin' Party" for family & friends. We have hotdogs, donuts, hayrides, balloons, face-painting, and give away all the pumpkins.

2/18/2011 8:09:22 AM

Massillon, Ohio

I'm Christy (Dieffenbaugher) Harp and I am a member with Glenna of the SCPGP (Stark County Pumpkin Growing Princesses). I'm 28 yrs old and took 2010 off from growing when my son Blaine was born. I'm taking off two years from my job as a high school math teacher and cross country coach also. Thought I'd have more energy these days but that is not the case because my son doesn't understand much about SLEEP. I will try growing again this season but honestly, I fear that I will embarass myself. Other hobbies: geocaching, bells, trumpet, hiking, mountains, running, biking.

2/20/2011 9:34:44 PM