Pumpkin Competition 2015

Anyone who visited the trading hut during the bright Wednesday summer evenings could not have failed to have been impressed by our very own chief salesman, raconteur, and general purveyor of bon viveur, Mr Dave Rawlings.

Dave seemed to view that it may be a good idea to try something a little new and offered a specific competition in relation to the produce carefully nurtured on our plots. Pumpkins turned out to be the favourite choice for our first foray into uncharted territory for the Association in recent years.

With this in mind the social calendar has a new date of 17th October for the culmination of this new enterprise, the biggest pumpkin, open to Association Members.

whilst some disquiet exists amongst some, who see this as the start to the stony road to desperate and devilish deeds amongst competing growers, we would like to hope that as an Association that we are above all this and support each and everyone in the attempts to produce bigger and better.

There are one or two other hurdles to overcome: e.g. how are we going to measure all the glorious produce; should it be the size, weight or circumference of the pumpkin. Such matters still to be considered. What is known is that the Association will provide the seeds in early March for the growing to begin in earnest.

There is already a precedent for a significantly sized pumpkin produced on the site, my son claiming most of the plaudits, although he really just posed with the produce which weighed in at 106lbs, (significantly more than he did) and fed this family of three for several months!! There is only so much soup, crumble, pie and mash that you can tolerate, so ensure that you have a wide circle of friends to feed.
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