Pumpkin weigh in stats as of 10/8/05

Dave - The "King" Pumpkin grower of Boulder ( so far ) - 125 #

Kenny, Cheryl, Jack in Ft Collins - 93#

Cara - The "Queen" - 79 # (and slowly turning to mush since the mold set in) and 35# (this is my pumpkin that grew from the top of the trellis in the sling

Anybody else have any stats to publish?


For the record, we had our first frost on 10/6/05

News of another pumpkin grown in Ft Collins

I gave some seeds to a friend in Ft Collins who later gave her plants to a friend. Here's news of their pumpkin that grew outside of our neighborhood........................

We are Kenny, Cheryl and Jack, in Fort Collins. We have been following your blog and growing our own pumkin with a plant given to us by our friend Delia. We were so happy with our pumpkin that we took it to a benefit and sold chances to guess its weight to raise money for the Larimer Center for Mental Health. We haven't weighed it yet, but when we do, we will let you know. We're looking for a scale that's big enough!

Thanks so much, growing this pumpkin has been so much fun, and showing it off even more fun!

63" and 79# as of 10/2/05

I picked my pumpkin this evening. It was a bittersweet event.

We left for the weekend to see the fall colors in Fraser, Colorado, only to return and find that the squirrel had chewed about an 8" diameter circle and the pumpkin was starting to mold. My application of cayenne pepper slowed him down on the other spots but he was clever enough to start chewing in a new spot. He must've sensed that I wasn't here.

I doubt that I'll have much to show by Halloween. So we did one last measurement and Steve volunteered to hold it while on the scale which came in at 79# which isn't too shabby for not getting pollinated till August.

I'm hoping I can keep the squirrel away from my pumpkin in the hammock long enough to actually have something to show for Halloween.