Re: OT: Giant pumpkin weighs in at 1,023 pounds
- From: Maybe <Maybeso320@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:18:59 -0700
On Sep 25, 4:23?pm, James Langdell <langd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There were sixpumpkinslarger than 1,023 pounds at last year's
competition in Half Moon Bay, California. The winner was 1,223
pounds.
http://www.miramarevents.com/weighoff/weighoff.html
Then again, it must be an earlier harvest in Maine, compared to
California and Puyallup, Washington, home of Joel Holland's 1,223
pounder. Joel has won this competition six times, in two three-petes.
Three years ago, he set a contest record with a 1,229 pount pumpkin,
and won the next year with a pumpkin at the identical weight. That
year he joked, on accepting the award, "Freezing the pumpkin is
probably only going to work one year."
The 2007 Half Moon Bay competition will be on October 8.
And the winner from that one:
Behemoth from Oregon wins Half Moon Bay pumpkin weigh-off
GIANT FROM OREGON SETS RECORD, BESTS LOCAL ENTRY
By Julia Scott
MediaNews
Article Launched: 10/09/2007 01:35:17 AM PDT
Thad Starr's pumpkin-growing buddies thought he was crazy when he
chose a seed from a 227-pound mother pumpkin, tiny by Atlantic Giant
pumpkin standards, to grow his own backyard giant this summer.
"Everybody laughed," Starr said.
They aren't laughing now. On Monday, Starr's 1,524-pound Atlantic
Giant pumpkin shattered all previous Half Moon Bay records at the
city's annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Starr, of Pleasant
Hill, Ore., won $9,144 in prize money.
Starr, 40, who has been growing giants for just two years, beat
reigning champion Joel Holland of Puyallup, Wash., whose Atlantic
Giant made him the runner-up at 1,384 pounds. Holland has won the Half
Moon Bay contest for the past three years.
The Half Moon Bay competition has long been considered the Super Bowl
of weigh-offs, attracting entries from Washington, Oregon and across
Northern California. Starr, a stay-at-home dad, beat 70 competitors
for the top prize.
Rest of article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_7124809
Maybe...bigger than the one in Maine
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