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Thursday, March 19, 2026
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Gardeneer-in-Training
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Sunny Okanagan
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Continuing from my previous entry...
I got it in my head, in my teens, that I ought to try saving seeds and plant them the following spring to save some cash. I did just that, but at the same time, my mother brought a pumpkin seedling home from a nursery. It received no care, but come Halloween, we had a 50 lb pumpkin. At the time, I was in awe of its size, until my father did a quick internet search that revealed an entire world of pumpkins weighing in excess of 2000 lbs.
2024 was a reset year, for many reasons. I was no longer in university, I'd learned some hard lessons, and I was armed with sage advice from a couple of books written by giant pumpkin growers. I managed to grow 320 and 415 lb pumpkins, although the 415 suffered severe sunscald and never made it to a weigh-off.
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