Re: News from PENINSULACLARION.COM -- Kenai, Alaska

Pumpkin Record page has been updated.

http://backyardgardener.com/record.html


--- fishrap@earthlink.net wrote:

> A service of Peninsula Clarion of Kenai, Alaska.
>  Kathie  <fishrap@earthlink.net> has sent you an
> article
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> 707-POUND NIKISKI PUMPKIN SETS RECORD
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> 	Driving by the front of the Tuboscope shop in
> Nikiski this summer, you'd never suspect anything
> unusual was tucked away behind the metal building
> off Old Nikiski Beach Road near the high school.
> 
> 	It would seem likely there would be the usual
> assortment of industrial-related items stashed out
> of view  some tools; a forklift or two; maybe some
> scrap metal and a junk pile  but certainly not what
> is likely to be the largest pumpkin in state
> history.
> 
> 	Yet that was home sweet home to a 707-pound giant
> gourd from the time it was planted in April until it
> was cut from its tangled sea of vines, loaded on a
> truck and taken to the Alaska State Fair in Palmer
> for a weigh-off Wednesday. As of 8:30 p.m.
> Wednesday, the pumpkin was by far and away the
> largest entered in the competition.
> 
> Click here to continue this story.:
>
http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/090204/gar_090204new001001.shtml
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