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Grown by my four year-old; weighs more than she does.
While not quite as charming as Backyard Giants author Susan Warren's guest rant here about giant pumpkins, Anne Raver's NY Times piece yesterday about pumpkin contests is worth a read--if only for the how-to tips.
I totally enjoyed my winter squash experience this year: Big aggressive dinosaur vines. Loads of weird blue knobby things to eat this winter, hubbards and Jarrahdale pumpkins. Not to mention super-dense and delicious buttercups and butternuts. Plus my daughter Grace's superb, big flat Halloween pumpkins. Next year? More.
Grace rocks!
Posted by: susan harriss | October 19, 2007 at 11:02 AM
That's a beauty! Cinderella will be happy with that one! Good job Grace!
Posted by: layanee | October 19, 2007 at 12:59 PM
... Are just fun to blow up: http://www.remarc.com/craig/?p=271
Posted by: Ellis Hollow | October 19, 2007 at 03:48 PM
Some of our best winter squash/pumpkin harvests have come from our poorly constructed and seldom turned lazy-person's compost heap. One year we had Long Island Cheese Squash that grew out of the heap in ten thick vines and produced a grand total of 158# of squash.
Posted by: kelly | October 20, 2007 at 06:04 AM
This was the first year growing pumpkins. I will be looking forward to growing more Squashes next year.
Posted by: Curtis | October 20, 2007 at 08:09 AM
Thanks for the great photo. I used to grow pumpkins for my daughter when she was a kid. The vines always headed out of the garden and straight for the lawn. I mowed around them for months. The resulting fruit was always half hidden in overgrown grass and weeds.
Posted by: Oldroses | October 20, 2007 at 04:14 PM