Now that's a pumpkin!
And with a forklift.
The pumpkin and six others ranging in size from 549 pounds, arrived at the Cockeysville lawn and garden center Wednesday morning from "somewhere up the Susquehanna River."That's all Stromberger would say. The farm of origin is a secret, but the pumpkin is the largest ever to be displayed in Maryland.
The pumpkins will be on display until Nov. 7, when the big one will be split open and its seeds counted. There will be a prize for the first person to correctly guess the number of seeds (guesses can be submitted anytime until the 7th.)
How do you cut open a 1,401-pound pumpkin?
Very carefully.
Photos courtesy of Carrie Engel, Valley View Farms
Comments
That is one big pumpkin. What are they going to do with all the pumpkin once it is split open for the seeds. That would feed a lot of people if they gave it to shelters around town and maybe the country.
Have a great day.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"
Posted by: Dan and Deanna | October 8, 2009 3:15 AM
That big pumpkin mught feed a lot of people, but I wonder who would do the work involved in making that happen?
Long ago, when I was young and in my Earth Mother phase, I made pumpkin pie out of "real" pumpkin which was, in fact, a goose-necked squash because my elderly neighbor told me that carving pumpkins don't have as much flavor. The details are gone from my memory banks but I remember that there was A LOT of work involved!
Posted by: Eve | October 8, 2009 9:36 AM