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Tuesday, October 03, 2017 Dutch Brad Netherlands

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To sum up the year, it wasn't half bad. I started with 14 classes of giant veg and showed 8.
Field pumpkin: 176.4 lbs (dmg)
Squash: 892 lbs (2nd place NL weigh-off)
Long gourd: 2x 118" (dmg)
Tomatoes: reminder not to grow them in a greenhouse - they don't grow (3.99 lbs)
Marrow and bushelgourd - didn't have time to tend to either
Watermelon: 118 lbs (NL record)
Pepper: 1.33 lbs (NL record)
Heavy cucumber: 17.6 lbs (NL record)
Long cucumber: 32" (have done better before)
Runnerbean: 27.6" (NL record)
Fodderbeat: 47.4 lbs (have done better before)
Sunflower and sunflower head: wrong seeds
Corn: tassled way too early because of poor weather
 



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