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Chantal wrote:I picked mine at the weekend; it's been estimated at between 5-6 stones which isn't massive but it took two of us to shift it and it filled the wheelbarrow.

My sister now has it as she's going to make lots of pumpkin soup for her restaurant.

Thanks Peter.

excellent chantal, well done :wink.i wonder how much soup she would get out of the new big one

heres the link for the tv broadcast of the wallace fruit,bloody hell they are big

http://www.turnto10.com/video/index.html#

click on play, to the right hand side where the pumpkins are.chantal we've got some catching up to do.peter

The children picked theres last thurs for the harvest festival at church,they were very proud whilst their dad had too carry each pumpkin up the stairs into their class and all the children gave lots of ooos and aaars and did you grow them yourselves questions,how do you do it and can we have some seeds for next year? I think they have started some budding young growers .i think the pumpkins weighed about 4 st or round about that,they are saving the bigger ones for our halloween party.we will deffo weigh the next ones and let you know peter.

thats great grock,its great to see the faces on kids when they see a big pumpkin for the first time.if you want seeds for the school,let me know sometime in december and i'll then know what i have spare,cheers peter

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"



74 lb starter!

Geoff, what the dickens are you having for your main course then?

Beautiful

Geoff wrote:"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"



74 lb starter!

well done geoff beautiful pic with that background view.im going to lift mine today,i think its reached its max now.and the weather is to turn cold on wednesday,so im not taking any chances,im wondering where to find some scales big enough to weigh it on.i'll ask chantal to post the pics later on today.well done everyone and thanks for having a go at growing them

Turn your back for 5 minutes and look what happens!

For Peterf's benefit the orange ones are P234, the big pale ones are P1021 and the longish yellow ones are P141. The original 74lb one is on the right. When we went to borrow the scales again they were broken, hope it wasn't us! We have now borrowed another set. By the time we got them we had given one away to make a display in the local butcher's window but it was about the same as the one measured at 108 lbs. We had cut away quite a bit of the original one but what was left was so heavy we suspect the original scales were already faulty so the 74 was probably about 90.

superb geoff but ithink iv'e got ya big un licked mate.chantal where you at

as go todays pics but pc wont let me post them

Well - tell us the weights then. We'll believe you.......

[quote="Tigger"]Well - tell us the weights then. We'll believe you.......[

going to cut them monday,got the pics in my camera now.chantal, where are you when i need ya

I'm here Peter, bung me an email.

We harvested ours today, the bigger of the two measures exactly 6ft around but we haven't tried weighing it. It won the competition at the allotment!
The seed number was 1093, by the way.