Re: Last Pumpkin Standing In Illinois

I hear ya, Russ.  I finally cut up my smallest the day after Thanksgiving while 
the weather was above 30.  I do have to admit it became a mud bath in the area 
surrounding the pumpkin, but I prevailed with the chain saw.  Thinking I was 
being nice, I left the very bottom of the pumpkin uncut for the animals to munch 
on.  Guess what... it is now in the mid-to high 20's. So much for my pumpkin 
brunch for the animals, unless they like pumpkin popsicles.  My middle weight 
pumpkin is floating in a private lake where the last I heard it was caught up on 
a small island in the lake.  Can't wait to ice fish so we can get out there, or 
even bore a hole through him and ice fish that way.

Debbie




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From: "rstokes@wi.rr.com" <rstokes@wi.rr.com>
To: Pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 7:47:05 AM
Subject: 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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