This Years's Show- Saturday 17 October 2009

There was a wonderful display of pumkins of all shapes and sizes at the show on 17 October 2009.

Click here to see the results and pictures

Background Information

Here you can:

• Find out about the varieties for our next competition. These include varieties good for eating and some fantastic decorative ones of all shapes and sizes as well as the big one - Atlantic Giant which can grow to over 1000 pounds. That is about the same as the weight of all the children in playgroup put together
• Read up on how to grow them
• See pix and reports of earlier competitions
• Read our recipes
• See examples of decorated pumpkins

Do you have recipes or experiences you'd like to share. If so we can publish them here. Please email them to info@longparish.org.uk or phone Jeremy Barber on 720459.

For hundreds of links just search on Atlantic giant pumpkin with Google . Don't try just searching on pumpkins by itself unless you are a real fan of a pop group called the Smashing Pumpkins.

Here are some of the links we liked best

	some great pumpkin clip art but it takes a while to load
	blog of Ian Patton UK record holder with a pumpkin weighing 1124 pounds
	P and P seeds - the firm where we get the really special seed. It is easy to order on the Internet and they deliver quickly. But the seed is expensive and you must have permission from an adult to use a credit card on the net.
	Kuerbismuseum - a German site with a comprehensive collection of pictures of pumpkins of every size shape and description