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Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Very busy last two days. I weighed on Friday afternoon and had friends over that evening. Today I spent all day preparing the garlic bed with compost and horse manure (garlic needs to be planted by 2nd week of October). Just got in about 200 seeds before the rain started this evening--spent all day working on it so I had to wait until this evening to do the diary entries from the weighing that took place on Friday.
Above is my pumpkin ready to go on my crude weighing contraption. I ended up cutting the stem right off so it could tip onto the scales and touch on the shoulders. I placed a small board down and some foam to assist in the process so I would not break the scales.
What a surprise too! It weighed in at about 840lbs--combined total of the three scales! The scales seemed to move around at between 830-860, but I think I can pretty safely say that I had an 800lber. I measured the pumpkin (after weighing it) by having my buddy assist me with the tape and it taped out to much bigger than I previously had it (350 OTT--right around the 835lb estimate--much more than the 337 OTT and the 752lb estimate I had it at).
Of course this is all unofficial, but I am pretty confident that it was an 800lber. So for my purposes I will be naming my pumpkin the 800 Dekleva UOW.
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