SuperChemicalGirl
Attractive To Bees
Hi TEGs... seems like a few of us are trying to grow big pumpkins this year. Someone had mentioned a friendly contest to see who could get the biggest pumpkin... so I'm starting a thread.
Hopefully we can get some friendly competition going on. If there's enough interest and participation I'll even try to throw in some prizes (and rules).
I'd also like to think of this as a gardening experiment... if you participate and wouldn't mind telling us how you prepared the bed, how you fertilized, etc that would be great.
Just so you know, I've been trying to grow big pumpkins for a few years now, and I've been most unsuccessful. I would not mimic my actions if I were you.
Rules:
To participate in the contest/prizes you'll need to join this thread by 1 August 2011. If you want to join after that date, you're welcome to but you will not be eligible for any prizes.
The end by date for this contest is 15 October 2011.
One entry per person. The pumpkin must be grown by YOU, or you and a group (like your family). But YOU must be involved directly in the care of the pumpkin.
You can use any method you please for growing and fertilizing the pumpkin (with the exception of cheating like filling it with water prior to weighing it). Organic, inorganic, humanure... don't care. You can even use the most evil Monsanto product available if you please.
We're going to need periodic pictures of the growth of your pumpkins and the final product. I may ask at the end that everyone take a picture of their pumpkin next to a common household item.
You are going to need some way to weigh your pumpkin and show us the results. You can do this on your bathroom scale (if you grow "huge" pumpkins like mine, they fit, haha), you can take it to your fair and have it weighed (with picture)...
We will also need measurements of your pumpkin, and can accept these in lieu of weight if you absolutely cannot get it weighed. We can estimate the weight.
I will have some prizes available for the contest. Just not sure at this point what they are or what they're for. But really, we're not in this for the prizes, are we?
2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest Participants:
SuperChemicalGirl (growing Burpee Prizewinner Hybrid and Dill's Atlantic Giant) 22.8 lbs
stepstephens2 (Atlantic Giant?) 15.8 lbs
nachoqtpie
Cats Critters and Garden (rouge vif d'etampes, Ct Field, Volunteers) 6.5 lbs
gardentoad (Concrete Garden)
ShortCircuitRanch2332
Jared77 (Atlantic Giant)
ShowMe31
Mis3836
chris09 (Atlantic Giant)
HunkieDorie23
nachoqtpie
Merelyatheory
bearmanz400 made compost out of pumpkin plants
Greenthumb18
wifezilla 28 lb (blue hubbard) ***WINNER***
Other Weigh Ins:
digitS' 17.5 lbs (RockStar)
Hopefully we can get some friendly competition going on. If there's enough interest and participation I'll even try to throw in some prizes (and rules).
I'd also like to think of this as a gardening experiment... if you participate and wouldn't mind telling us how you prepared the bed, how you fertilized, etc that would be great.
Just so you know, I've been trying to grow big pumpkins for a few years now, and I've been most unsuccessful. I would not mimic my actions if I were you.
Rules:
To participate in the contest/prizes you'll need to join this thread by 1 August 2011. If you want to join after that date, you're welcome to but you will not be eligible for any prizes.
The end by date for this contest is 15 October 2011.
One entry per person. The pumpkin must be grown by YOU, or you and a group (like your family). But YOU must be involved directly in the care of the pumpkin.
You can use any method you please for growing and fertilizing the pumpkin (with the exception of cheating like filling it with water prior to weighing it). Organic, inorganic, humanure... don't care. You can even use the most evil Monsanto product available if you please.
We're going to need periodic pictures of the growth of your pumpkins and the final product. I may ask at the end that everyone take a picture of their pumpkin next to a common household item.
You are going to need some way to weigh your pumpkin and show us the results. You can do this on your bathroom scale (if you grow "huge" pumpkins like mine, they fit, haha), you can take it to your fair and have it weighed (with picture)...
We will also need measurements of your pumpkin, and can accept these in lieu of weight if you absolutely cannot get it weighed. We can estimate the weight.
I will have some prizes available for the contest. Just not sure at this point what they are or what they're for. But really, we're not in this for the prizes, are we?
2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest Participants:
SuperChemicalGirl (growing Burpee Prizewinner Hybrid and Dill's Atlantic Giant) 22.8 lbs
stepstephens2 (Atlantic Giant?) 15.8 lbs
nachoqtpie
Cats Critters and Garden (rouge vif d'etampes, Ct Field, Volunteers) 6.5 lbs
gardentoad (Concrete Garden)
ShortCircuitRanch2332
Jared77 (Atlantic Giant)
ShowMe31
Mis3836
chris09 (Atlantic Giant)
HunkieDorie23
nachoqtpie
Merelyatheory
bearmanz400 made compost out of pumpkin plants
Greenthumb18
wifezilla 28 lb (blue hubbard) ***WINNER***
Other Weigh Ins:
digitS' 17.5 lbs (RockStar)
I'm growing small pumpkins...N.E. Sugar Pie and Galeux dEysines (warty pumpkins).
