A4A Giant Pumpkin Contest 2011

[Dandytown]

Nice blog Steve and a good weight for your pumpkin  :)

[Dandytown]

[Steve.]

Nice blog Steve and a good weight for your pumpkin  :)

Thank you and thank you! Setting myself a target of 400lbs for next year (realistic) and aiming/hoping for 500lb plus (possibly unrealistic).

Steve...:)

[pete JB]

Hey, Any comp reselts yet ??????
I got prizes to give !

Pete

[Nigel B]

Mine ended up at all of 65lbs.  :-[

I gave it to our local girls morris-dancing troupe for their Halloween 'do', where they held a guess-the-weight competition with it, and the winner won the pumpkin to carve as they wished.
Although I wasn't there, I was told it went down a treat and was back on display, carved and lit up, within two hours!

[Dandytown]

Apologies for not producing a results page yet, i have limited access at the moment but will do my best.  All a bit anti-climatic

[Squash64]

[Squash64]

The light-coloured marrow was 61 lb, much better than
last year's 46lb. Quite surprising considering that last year
I really looked after it and fed and watered it but this year
I did nothing!

[chriscross1966]

The light-coloured marrow was 61 lb, much better than
last year's 46lb. Quite surprising considering that last year
I really looked after it and fed and watered it but this year
I did nothing!

I reckon the near non-stop rain has been quite good for the outdoor cucurbits, as long as they dodged the cold snap towards the end of May , without an immense amount of effort and resources in autowatering we gardeners can't match natures watering can...