10-15-2011, 05:44 PM
When I lived in Chicago - we had a "gift" left on our doorstep one year -seems some of my Dad's grad students decorated one of them HUGE pumpkins up to look like him - right down to the tye and glasses - and left it on our doorstep.
That variety does get HUGE! I've seen them cross with banana squash too- that makes an interesting piece of "fruit".
I think the carriage idea has some warrant. What would it take to put a couple axles on those? Would be an AWESOME parade float!
So they pump them up with water, not miracle grow. Interesting. I'd suspect they must prune the vines too - select out the biggest "branch".
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That variety does get HUGE! I've seen them cross with banana squash too- that makes an interesting piece of "fruit".
I think the carriage idea has some warrant. What would it take to put a couple axles on those? Would be an AWESOME parade float!
So they pump them up with water, not miracle grow. Interesting. I'd suspect they must prune the vines too - select out the biggest "branch".
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