A Round up of Awesomeness
A round up of all the bits and pieces that have been happening lately. Results from Mapua and Bushmere arms.
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2014
The Great Pumpkin Carnival 2014
The Great Pumpkin Carnival held at Hamilton Gardens was held on Sunday 30th of March. This it the post that wraps up how it all went.
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Giant Pumpkin Boat Racing – A NZ First
In a NZ first Tim Harris was the first man to paddle a giant pumpkin, I tagged along to help out and ended up in a 2nd pumpkin, check out how our day went with exclusive video.
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TV Central Interview – First One
Myself and Grace appeared on TV central recently.
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Busy busy busy – An update
With only one week to go until the great pumpkin carnival here in Hamilton this week has been hectic. Check out what has been happening.
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Recipe – Sweet Dessert Miniature Pumpkins
A nice simple recipe to make miniature pumpkins into sweet sweet dessert pumpkins. Check it out in this post.
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Kumeu A&P Show 2014 – The Pumpkins
Here are the photos from the Kumeu 2014 A & P show Giant Pumpkin competition. Matthew Lee took away the top prize with a 173kg pumpkin.
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TV Central Interview – Behind the scenes
Yesterday Grace and I were interviewed by TV Central about The Great Pumpkin Carnival and pumpkins in general, this is the behind the scenes.
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Visitors to the patch
If anyone wants to come around and see what I am up to, feel free to drop on by. Check out these unexpected visitors.
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Hamilton Junior High School – Growing their first giant pumpkin
Today I checked out Hamilton Junior High Schools Pumpkin they have grown this year. A great first time effort.
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Seeds, Winner, Pumpkins and Things in the Mail
Seeds from the auction turned up, I gave the winner their prize, I attempted to carve a miniature, and look at the picture someone sent me.
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Giant Pumpkin Grower Profile – Tim
I was lucky enough to check out what Tim is growing in his patch yesterday and man is it exciting. Check out the photos I took plus some Q & A’s
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Whats been happening – week ending 9/02/14
The weekly round up here at Giant Pumpkins NZ. Competition closing soon, new seeds brought and silly leg cramp.
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What’s been happening – week ending 2/2/2014
This week I discuss how we have a GPC weigh off site, and a competition to help celebrate the new and improved forum
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Giant Pumpkin Grower Profile – Grace
The first giant pumpkin growers profile post. In this post I interview Grace about her giant pumpkins and everything else she is growing.
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