Great Pumpkin of California Wins $9,144
Tuesday October 14, 2008
How do you grow a 1,524 pound pumpkin? With love, of course.
Thad Starr, a stay-at-home dad from Pleasant Hill, Ore., won the 34th annual pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, shattering the competition's old record by almost 300 pounds.
"You'll see me kiss all my pumpkins," Starr told reporters, after winning $9,144 in prize money for the 1,524 lb. pumpkin. "It kind of sounds corny, but you develop a bond with your pumpkins. ... They're almost your friends."
Starr's gourd was just 11 pounds short of the California record. The world record pumpkin is a 1,689-pound squash grown by Joe Jutras of Rhode Island.
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That reminds me, I need to get a copy of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” Everything I ever needed to know about life I learned from Charles Schultz