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Monday, October 03, 2011
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Dutch Brad
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Netherlands
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The season is almost at an end. Just a tomato, sunflower head and a runner bean left in the giant veg garden.
Pictured is my long gourd and very disappointing pumpkin.
Here is the list of giant veg I started out with and what became of them, based on the 8 giant veg classes of the EGVGA.
Category 1 - Atlantic Giant
Pumpkin (1) - 1421 Stelts - 957lbs (went 18.4% light)- worst grower I have ever had
Category 2 - Cucurbitaceae 1
Squash (1) - 1x 1055 Pitura* - drowned
Cantaloupe (2) - 2x 38 Daho - drowned
Field Pumpkin (1) - 1x 103 Lyons - drowned
Category 3 - Cucurbitaceae 2
Marrow (2) - 2x 206.5 Wursten - 1 split at 135.5 lbs - other 70.5lbs
Cucumber: heavy (1) - 12.13lbs (PB)
Cucumber: long (2) - 85.5cm (PB)
Category 4 - Heavy root
Beetroot (7) - heaviest weighed 11.9lbs (smallest ever)
Carrot (ca. 25) - 24 drowned or rotted, smallest survived @ 3.57 lbs. Heaviest dmg was 6.8lbs
Parsnip (5) - 7.5lbs (PB)
Potato (7) - all plants drowned - biggest surviving seed potato was 1.86lbs
Category 5 - Long
Beetroot (1) - 92.1in (PB)
Carrot (2) - 61.4in (PB) and 46.1in
Long gourd (3) - 2 drowned, 135 Jacobus produced 122in (Euro record)
Runner bean (3) - 25.6in (PB)
Category 6 - Brassica
Kohlrabi (2) - both drowned
Radish (5) - all 5 went to seed; heaviest 2.87lbs
Swede (3) - 2 drowned; smallest survived @ 19.4lbs
Category 7 - Tall
Corn (19) - severely stunted: Olotillo is still growing, tallest Montana was 15ft 9in
Sunflower (3) - only one stunted one survived @ 12ft 1in (worst ever)
Sunflower: head (3) - heads never matured as plants pretty much drowned; waiting for last "survivor" to grow a bit
Category 8 - Other heavy
Leek (7) - got seed too late so only 1.92lbs
Pepper (3) - several at 1.03 and 1.02lbs
Tomato (10)- 7 plants drowned/blight, rest stunted - still need to weigh the only survivor on the 7.33 Hunt
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