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Ham Lake, Minnesota

Since I hear this question all the time I wanted to hear what various things the community does with them, maybe there will be some really creative answers I could learn about. Besides the typcial "going to the weighoff" please share some stories of what you and your pumpkin(s) did at seasons end. Thanks!

9/10/2008 3:11:01 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Went down main street at about 5 mph with a cartrailer with two on them, at 49F and freezing mine with the elbow out the window and a big grin...

Carve them as jackolanterns.

Before harvest, gave patch tours to all and sundry. Watching very small kids meeting very large pumpkins is priceless.

Answering the questions as two big ones are now at the fair, 'yes it's possible-here' and 'I'm disappointed, they're littlefellers... it's been a reeeal bad growing year here' (truth in that one though, bad year).

Looking for ways to keep SVB's off them without poisoning the pumpkin, so they could have a fundraiser off one pumpkin as pie...

Suggested to a few business owners, after they're weighed they'd be awesome as advertising, especially having them halloween carved.

I'll see as I have two more in the big enough you need friends to move them yet... what I can add. :)

9/10/2008 4:13:16 PM

Going to Nekoosa to break a state record!

9/10/2008 4:25:52 PM

Colorado Springs.Co

Set it at thirty yards and blast it with my twelve gauge and 30-30 while my girlfriend detonates the C-4.

9/10/2008 4:43:45 PM

Columbus,ohio

Get craneand drop it on car....saw it on youtube

9/10/2008 5:01:49 PM

Utah

push it out of the back of a C-130 going 150 mph at 500 ft.

Display it at the local childrens hospital.

Display it at the local elementry school.

9/10/2008 5:20:34 PM

Woodburn, Indiana

I donate mine to the local zoo for their Halloween theme.

9/10/2008 6:17:42 PM

Western PA

Take it for a ride over Niagara Falls....

9/10/2008 6:46:48 PM

Minnesota

They always say "what are you gonna do with it" and I say, I don't know, I don't even own a pick-up truck, then I say, "it sure is big is'nt it" and they say, "it's huge".

9/10/2008 7:12:54 PM

Ham Lake, Minnesota

...it's so old to hear for the millionth time "makes a lot of pumpkin pies".....heh yeah you go ahead and eat them too!

9/10/2008 7:18:43 PM

Jefferson,me

Some make boats. Some are just paddlers.And some have 2h.p.+/- outboard engines pushing them.

9/10/2008 9:15:50 PM

Kalamazoo, MI ([email protected])

Hehe Alex, like the Real Men of Genius Budweiser commercial? "What's for dinner? Pumpkin pie for the next seventeen months..."

9/10/2008 9:39:21 PM

Griffith, In

We use ours for a themed halloween display each year, we carve between 40 and 50 pumpkins, and get in the neighborhood of 10,000 people out to see them,,,and my very favorite question that was ever asked was,,,WHERE DO YOU STORE THEM FROM YEAR TO YEAR????

9/10/2008 10:16:55 PM

Connecticut

I often donate them for local non-profit fundraisers, but at the end of a season after all the guess the weight contests it is always nice to have some more fun....

http://www.team-pumpkin.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=28&fullsize=1

http://www.team-pumpkin.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=29&fullsize=1

http://www.team-pumpkin.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=27&fullsize=1

For picture captions check out www.Team-Pumpkin.org then go to Photos, then 'Pumpkin Fun'.

I call it grow your own boat. You can not beat the winter storage space;-)

9/10/2008 10:49:58 PM

New Hampshire, USA

put mine in the shade garden as a display

9/10/2008 11:17:58 PM

Ham Lake, Minnesota

Does anyone get into selling them? Curious what someone or a business is willing to fork out in the recent years for something that is surely novelty and will not last for very long.

9/11/2008 12:30:09 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

If you can sell one you're doing good. I'm told over 1000# you should get a buck a pound. Some will rent out the pumpkin on trailer and padded pallet for displaying at other events for about a month then find it a home (aka sell the shell). I'd love to do that but I'll be happy for carving it.

9/11/2008 2:43:43 AM

Cochecton, NY

I like the letterman approach. pack it full of black powder and KABOOM!!!!!! If you do it right in the middle of the patch, the falling debris should evenly distribute itself adding nutrients to your soil for next year!

9/12/2008 8:02:08 AM

Johnstown, Ohio

As a carver I try to buy as many as I have places to carve. I just bought 3 from Mr. Bosworth for the Columbus Zoo. On average, I pay approx $250 each for pumpkins around 500#. Sometimes I can get a little bigger for that price, sometimes a little smaller. Some clients are willing to go larger...I tell them between $0.50 and $1 per pound.

Also, it all depends what the client is willing to pay. Some look to local growers to donate them. It obviously depends on the client, but I discourage that. I would rather the grower get paid for their hard work.

9/12/2008 10:13:16 PM

Puyallup, WA

I always enjoy the looks you get as you haul it in the back of your pick-up to the local Fair. If you have one at or over 1000#, people just drop their jaw and exclaim, "Oh my G*d"!

9/13/2008 11:20:10 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Here it only took two over 300# on a car trailer to do that. :)

Mine got a LOT of attention...

9/14/2008 7:58:09 AM