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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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LuckLuck
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Westerville, Ohio
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I started my giant pumpkin inside on April 10th this year 2013. My husband came up with a good name for the giant pumpkin this year. This year he is named "Semore" because we want to "see more" this year than we did last year with "Morty" my first Giant pumpkin attempt. Morty weighed 12.5 pounds LOL! I should have gotten the award for the smallest giant pumpkin....
This year I planted a seed I bought too late to plant last year. I got it from the Southern Ohio Giant Pumpkin growers website. It was easy to order with PayPal.I thought $10.00 was a bit steep but I figured it was helping the association which I am a member of so I bought a package.
I choose a seed from Cecil Weston's pumpkin. He is located in Circleville, Ohio and Teresa have been very nice to answer my questions about growing a giant pumpkin.
Imagine my surprise when the seeds came and it wasn't seeds it was "a seed" a $10.00 seed... Oh my goodness. I should have taken a picture of it but I didn't think of it at the time. It was a really big seed way bigger than the seed I ordered from eBay last year.
I was a long time before it finally sprouted. I actually dug it up because I was afraid the soil was too wet and it was going to rot. At the time I planted I didn't have any seed started so I scooped out the seed and added the jiffy mix and re-planted. To be honest I dug that poor seed up 3 times in all... I wanted to see what it was doing and I just couldn't understand why it was taking so long to sprout. Since then I've learned that there are tips to help the seed along but I didn't know them at the time.
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