I'm going to the fair...

Finally, I have a pumpkin with a circumference of 70"!  As a first year grower who has done everything wrong, this is almost as exciting for me as those 1000lbers are for you guys.  Friend who see my pumpkins (all three of them) ask me, what are you going to do with them.  I always reply, if one makes it over 100lbs, I'm taking them to the fair!

Well, the pumpkin(Jack)  that I hoped to take to the fair has slowed down at around 67" inches and I don't think I can coax another inch out out of him.  He is a beautiful shape and now a nice shade or orange.

My new big boy is Pickle, so named because when it was 10 days old it looked like an ugly cross between a pickle and a peanut.  Well it has grown larger and uglier.  It won't win any awards for weight or beauty, but it's going to the fair.

But my ugliest pumpkin (a real reverse ugly duckling story) is Globey -- so named because for the first 20 days of his life he was round as a globe.  Somehow he has since developed into a cantalouped, scarred, misshapen mess.  At about 50lbs, this is one ugly pumpkin.

I also realized this morning that my patch may have set a record of some sort.  Originally my patch was 12'sq (yup, 3'x4', I told you I did everything wrong). I have since dug trenches that have increased the patch to about 40'sq.  Well, so far I have about 240lbs of fruit.  That equals to 8lbs per square foot of soil.  If a 30'x30' patch produced at this rate, it would produce 7,200 lbs of fruit!

Randy (a legend in his own mind) Banderob
Millbrook, Ontario
 

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