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Would this kind of pumpkin be good for pies? People keep asking me what I'm going to do with it.

When I planted it I used a bunch of manure mixed with the soil. Then I used Fox Farm's liquid fertilizer called "Grow Big". I also used some fish emulsion stuff that smells terrible. I didn't really use any fertilizer once the pumpkin set because I was afraid of using too much nitrogen.

Thanks everyone. It was really fun. Maybe I should have waited to post until the 15th but I was just so excited that I actually grew something. I can't wait til next year now.

I'm sorry Mary. I don't have enough space at my house either. I'm lucky enough that my mom does and she let me use her space. I was just curious about what happened with everyone else who entered the contest.

That was a little to easy. Where was everyone? There's a whole bunch of people that didn't post anything. It doesn't really feel like I won anything. I don't want that to sound rude at all because I know many of you had bad luck and couldn't help it. I think I had a good dose of beginners luck...

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Thank You! :D

Here is my pumpkin! It weighed in at 83 lbs.! I was very excited. I tried to measure it but my measuring tape only goes to 60 in. That's my husband in the last picture.

My pumpkins still growing too! I can't wait to weigh in. I was wondering how everyone's doing. A month feels like a very long time.

I was just wondering how everyone's doing with their pumpkins. I have one that's growing pretty well. I tried to measure it around but I can't get underneath it. So I measured as far as I could and it's at 38 inches. I'm so excited to see how big I can get this. Here is a picture.:D So how...

My progress so far has been pretty slow. My giant pumpkin plant is HUGE but still hasn't set a pumpkin. There are plenty of female and male flowers so I'm just waiting for one of them to start growning. I have a sugar pie that's doing really well in comparison. I thought it would be really funny...

That is so cool!

I've done a lot of research on that this year. I was going for the single stem method. I tried to make sure I took all the suckers off and have one main vine. I wasn't quite as diligent as I should have been so a couple of my plants now have two big vines. I think that it has worked very well...

I'm hoping to be able to start with a few varieties and be able to keep growing them without buying new seed every year. It's so self sufficient. Then maybe I can trade with others in the future to get new varieties. I found the farmers market coming up on Thursday and supposedly there's a...

Now that you mention a festival I remembered that there is an elephant garlic festival near here. It's in North Plains, which is about a 45 min. drive from me. I recently read that elephant garlic is not actually a garlic but is part of the leek family. I thought that was pretty interesting...