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Friday, May 09, 2008
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Honesdale, Pennsylvania
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I would like to introduce the pumpkin growing community to one of our local gardening legends. He is Honesdale's "Howard". To say Howard is an avid gardener is an understatement. This guy is incredible. Each year he has a perfectly manicured garden. He tills his own patch with a machine that he bought over 50 years ago from Sears and Roebuck. He raises vegetables to be given away to the local aging office and delivered over a hundred pounds of rhubarb to the local bakery. Howard told my mom at church that he was thinking about not gardening this year as it was getting to be too much. He asked how my pumpkins were doing and said that the one thing he never grew was a giant pumpkin. I had a couple of spare plants so Howard is now set up and growing strong. I will keep you posted on his progress. And he just may be the oldest pumpkin grower out there. Yes, Howard is an active 94 years young! Here is Howard getting ready to plant one of my 923's. Good Luck Howard!!!
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