Alameda County Fair Pumpkin • Subject: Alameda County Fair Pumpkin • From: 'Brent Bayon' • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:48:19 -0700 • List-archive: (Web Archive) First Place Monstrosity: At the first of July I entered a 420 lb Atlantic Giant to our local Fair (Alameda County is due East of San Francisco, CA and the fair is in the city of Pleasanton). It was from a 948 Roulst seed, that was started on Christmas day, 2005. The plant had 193 growing days, yet I had to harvest the pumpkin four weeks early. Pumpkin plants grow very slowly in cold conditions. This is my biggest pumpkin yet, and it was grown in a community garden patch that is 300 sq.
Pleasanton, CA - Halloween's just around the corner, time to check out Patch's scoop on local pumpkin patches and farm stands! The Alameda County Fair is having a Pumpkin Patch! Bring you friends and family over to the Alameda County Fairgrounds to pick your favorite pumpkin of this season!
The fair is very early in the year, and the challenge is to get a vine to grow while we still have frost and cold weather. It was the only pumpkin entered, and the only classification that it fit was 'Monstrosity'.
But certainly it got a lot of attention from the fair goers, which is why I grow, both the challenge and the attraction that a large pumpkin gives. For those who attended the Elk Grove pumpkin growers meeting last March, I did add calicum by adding gypsum. (Plant still wasn't very big in March.) I live and grow in Livermore, and right now it looks like by the end of this week we will have had two solid weeks of days over 900. My present plants wilt everyday and grow very poorly in the heat. (April, May and June were perfect growing weather. Cuantos Botones De Vista Tiene Power Point. ) Still holding on to hope that my summer pumpkins can survive the heat. Brent Bayon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pumpkin-growing archives: To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS • Prev by Date: • Next by Date: • Previous by thread: • Next by thread: © — .
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