Fwd: Biggest pumpkin festival in the world NZ?


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>Subject: Biggest pumpkin festival in the world NZ?
>Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:54:03 +1300
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>The organising for our Pumpkin Festival is all on track and everything is
>booked and set for April 8th.
>
>We will be taking the angle of being the second biggest pumpkin festival in
>the world in terms of pumpkins etc. Our best stats to date are 101 pumpkins
>two years ago. We are asking for 108 pumpkins this year to beat the record
>of 107. which I understand was in Topsfield - is this correct????
>
>Does anybody know of numbers of pumpkins at any Weigh - Off's anywhere
>please. Who has the biggest pumpkin festival/Weigh - Off to date????
>
>There are lots of female flowers in the patch now but no males. I trimmed a
>lot of vines that were going in the wrong direction and buried the ends. All
>plants doing well and being sprayed with 'Thrive - Fruit and Flower' liquid
>feed every second or third day'.
>
>The vines on the Armstrong look particularly thick and strong.
>
>The Needham is really moving now and I had to bring the main vine around the
>back to circumnavigate the patch to give the runners some space. The Needham
>runners are really dark green and solid looking.
>
>The Emmons has bright yellow runners and there are some cracks appearing at
>the base of the stems in the plant crown.
>
>The Kincaid was the first to have female flowers and the leaves are still
>larger than the rest.
>
>All are settling down to lots of vegetative growth, speed and starting to
>flower.
>
>The task for this weekend is to identify some of the runners that have
>'mingled' and hang a label on them to identify them for pollination
>purposes.
>
>
>         http://bigd.co.nz/
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>         John
>
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