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Colorado

Congrats to Rafael Gomez on his first ever win today! Full results for our first ever event are below. A big thank you to all who entered, those who supported our auction over the past winter, and especially to Fort Collins Nursery for putting on a 1st class event! The ENTIRE top ten places finished in the money with a >$1000 total prize structure, and we hope to increase prize pool for next year:

PUMPKINS:

1. Rafael Gomez, 791.5 pounds. (grown on 1843 Geddes)
2. Barry Todd, 461.5 pounds. (grown on 2009 Wallace)
3. Jeff Shelly, 326.5 pounds
4. Margie Davis, 294 pounds
5. Bill Sahl, 267.5 pounds
6.Bill Sahl Jr., 203.5 pounds
7. Steve Mike, 118 pounds
8. Talia Fox, 105 pounds
9. David Mike, 102 pounds
10. Oliver McCalmont, 87.5 pounds
11. Mike Mitchell, 79.5 pounds

SQUASH:

1. Pete Mohr 905.5 Pounds, 996* Haist x 941*Sherwood
second biggest squash all time for Colorado

I'll post weigh-off pics in my diary.

Congrats Rafael on the great year!

10/5/2013 10:43:43 PM

oswego, NY

Congrats to all the growers for some very impressive results. Oswego, NY reports top 10/25 pumpkins:
1. 1,461.5 Andy Wolf
2. 1,264.0 Carl Haist
3. 1,229.0 Jeff Alberts
4. 1,213.5 Bill Bobier
5. 1,208.5 Brian Kibler ( & Howard Dill)
6. 1,101.5 Walter Merriam
7. 1,099.5 Todd Brownell
8. 1,036.5 Kath & Gary Adams
9. 1,014.0 Joe Pukos
10. 883.5 Jamie Mullen

Squash: 2/2
1. 874.5 Brian Staring
2 579.5 Carl Haist

10/6/2013 10:48:08 AM

Paradise Mountain, New York

Longmonpete, you got a picture of Pete Mohr's squash to post as well

10/6/2013 2:24:37 PM

Muddy Waters

Nice job on the squash Pete! That should place in the worldwidegiantgrowers.com contest.

10/8/2013 7:35:57 AM

Muddy Waters

Congrats to all!

10/8/2013 7:36:20 AM