Re: picture on Web
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:38:55PM -0800, Vickie Brock wrote:
> For those that would like a gander at the picture that is being circulated
> can go to Pumpkin Flowers Web
> site......(http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/8717/1400lber.html)
> Of course you can't tell anything about weight. And we will never know for
> sure about this pumpkin. But you can see that Rocky is real and it wasn't
> just a prank. Hes real nice will give you an ear full of his style of
> growing and offered to help anyone . As any true pumpkin grower would. He has
> taken the time to talk with many . I am sure his wife will glad to see this
> all end. So will I............. This is about as far as this mystery will
> ever be solved. .......brock
It's nice sized, but it looks like about a 700 pound squash to me. It
looks mostly green. Still a good effort.
I put up a couple of other photos on a page with the one you put up for
non-scientific comparison--to and 828 and 936.5 from the Carnation, WA
weighoff in 1998. They are at
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/gardening/muchAdo/bigpumpkins1998.html
Hope he has a good year again this season. I wouldn't mind having a 700
pound fruit, personally.
Shaun in Spokane.
--
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies.. that which
to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. -T. Casey
Brennan
polaris@wolfenet.com ++ PGP email welcome
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