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Subject:  NEW EUROPEAN SQUASH RECORD FROM HOLLAND

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Dutch Brad

Netherlands

Weighoff held on October 8, 2005 in Asten, The Netherlands

Top-3 pumpkins
545 Poels 05
526 Van Dijck 05
470 Slegers 05

Top-3 squash
796 Poels 05* NEW EUROPEAN RECORD
520 Peek 05* (weighed 523 in Duisburg)
494 Van der Els 05*

11/1/2005 1:56:55 PM

Dutch Brad

Netherlands

Rumour has it, it was weighed as a pumpkin in Duisburg and is not 100% SQUASH.

11/1/2005 2:11:18 PM

Uberpumpkin (Rene)

Vancouver, Canada

wooh! Good news to hear! I always thought that The Netherlands had not a very good climate for growing pumpkins but now it is proven that a big squash can be growen here.

11/1/2005 2:17:02 PM

Dutch Brad

Netherlands

Please take a look at the top right picture, and tell me if this is a pumpkin or a squash.
http://www.museumdepeel.nl/pompoen.html

11/1/2005 2:23:46 PM

PUMPKIN MIKE

ENGLAND

It looks very much like a salmon coloured Pumpkin but with the aged netting that appears on a lot of Pumpkins. Difficult to tell from the Picture but one thing for sure it is not a True Green Squash by a long way.

Regards
Mike

11/1/2005 3:18:57 PM

Jos

Belgium Europe

It was grown from a seed of my last years 917 pumpkin.Weighed 363kg or 800lbs in Duisburg were it was classified as a pumpkin according to the wpc rules.
In Kasterlee it weighed 355.5kg.
Greetings
Jos.
PS:I still have a couple of hundred of those seeds,email me when interested.

11/1/2005 3:56:18 PM

Steel

Austria

No true green squash for sure

11/2/2005 3:27:02 AM

owen o

Knopp, Germany

Per the Asten weighoff committee, it is a squash. My hat goes off to Harrie Poels. Job well done.

I do not think that it is a true green squash though.

11/2/2005 8:37:24 AM

meseb

Loitsche/Sachsen-Anhalt/Germany

http://www.museumdepeel.nl/pompoen.html
It is a good pumpkin. But it is not a green squash.

11/2/2005 3:39:36 PM

owen o

Knopp, Germany

Your English is getting better my friend:-)

Thanks to all for your support

11/2/2005 3:56:34 PM

Steel

Austria

I like "groene pompoenen". Sounds funny somehow.

11/3/2005 3:11:40 AM

Brooks B

Ohio

If that pumpkin is a squash then so is the 1367 Rose,lol. The 796 Poels isnt even close to being a 100% true greenie, although it is a nice pumpkin with nice shape.

Brooks

11/7/2005 2:52:30 PM

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