While it may not have been on our bucket list, attending the Giant Pumpkin Competition Weigh-In at Kygole, yesterday morning, was at least on our List of Must-Do Things This Week. So after we'd done our shopping at the farmers' markets, we toddled off down to the showground, where we met up with Julia, who happens to have an unhealthy interest in over-sized pumpkins, melons, squashes and gramma. With the day threatening to reach 37 (which it did) we headed off early to Kyogle.
It was one of those days with a strange sense of foreboding (well it seemed that way for me). Like when you have some kind of feeling that something strange was going to happen later in the day. It took me back to when I was a kid and often felt like that. But, you will be pleased to know that the rest of the day was completely uneventful. But an uneventful event, this one, wasn't. Here is Steve at the entry to the Giant Pumpkin Competition entry.
Well there were about a dozen over-sized veges all displayed on wooden palettes. (I'm sure that's the incorrect spelling, but I'm just too hot to care). This one reminded me of Jabba the Hutt for some reason, though not necessarily from this angle.
Another big fella. The colours and textures were intriguing and interesting. Apparently it takes 70 days to get something from a seedling a few cms high to one of these things.
And of course, what would a Giant Pumpkin Competition be without a 'Guess the weight of the giant pumpkin' competition. Here is Julia with her entry which she is just about to slip into the locked box underneath the sign of the giant pumpkin. Unfortunately for Julia, she didn't win. However, I am pleased to say that the winner of this year's Kyogle Giant Pumpkin Competition Guessing Competition was none other than Stevie! His winning guess was 242 kgs. That's a lot of soup!
There was some discussion about us entering next year but we were put off by how we would actually lift and cart the giant pumpkin down to Kyogle.
2 comments:
What do they do with the giant pumpkins - surely they are too toug to eat? Good on Steve for winning the guessing competition - what sort of prize do you get for that?
heya Kerri, I assume they are not eaten...just grown as a competition I think....Steve won $20 which he donated back to the Giant Pumpkin Committee ;-)
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