1,524-pound pumpkin takes top honors in Half Moon Bay:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... VSM90M.DTL



There is a documentary playing on cable called "Lords of the Goard" about the people who grow these things.

gordeous!

double post. urgggh.

Commentary at SF Gate has some people insisting that "cheating" with the agricultural equivalent of steroids contributes to the growth of pumpkins this large, but people were growing them that large long before the advent of steroids. When I was a kid I lived in San Mateo County and loved this time of year. We'd drive out to Half Moon Bay and pick out some pumpkins. For those who don't know the area, it's a coastal region that until overdevelopment started about twenty years ago, was largely agricultural, pumpkins and strawberries being the region's star produce. The sight of huge fields of pumpkins is really something!

And of course, many of us have pumpkin kaiju.

We used to go on field trips to Half Moon Bay to get punkins, the best was when my buddy kicked one and it turned out to be a rotten pumpkin that wasps turned into a nest, sheer mayhem in the pumpkin patch! Good times.

Awesome!

I once read that Jim martin of faith no more was a giant pumpkin grower.