Last Pumpkin Standing In Illinois

I thought I would share this within the community. My 953 red-orange pumpkin went into the compost pile Wed., December 1.  It was picked on September 24th and after going to the Milwaukee weigh-off, took a sojourn to Gray's Lake, Il where it was placed with some corn stalks and straw bales as a fall display near a busy road.  The lady that asked me to let her show it off, was reluctant to let go of it and wanted to hang onto it for a while longer.  I explained to her that I needed to get some seeds out of it and that it was starting to become a big orange block of ice and the seeds might go bad.  She acquiesced and the pumpkin was taken and I chopped it up and returned it to the garden area that it grew from.  I am guessing that there is a passage somewhere that say's, "remember pumpkin, you came from compost and to compost you shall return". 

Happy Holidays.


Russ Stokes

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