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Alaska

TexasTowelie

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3. I was about to post an "Oh My Gourd" comment,

Reply to GoDawgs (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 1, 2016, 01:38 AM

Sep 2016

but I checked and found out that pumpkins are considered to be in the squash family. The article is interesting because a few years ago the same guy brought a pumpkin weighing over 1,700 pounds to the state fair but was disqualified because it had a a pencil size hole in it.

I bet that Sarah Palin is wondering whether the Russians are using some secret type of radiation to affect the food supply though.

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1,469-pound pumpkin broke the Alaska State Fair record [View all] TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP

Yuuuge Liberal_in_LA Sep 2016 #1

Well, now I know what a Pumpkin Fairy is. GoDawgs Sep 2016 #2

I was about to post an "Oh My Gourd" comment, TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #3

I think you'd be fine- pumpkins & squash & gourds are all Cucurbitas GoDawgs Sep 2016 #5

How do you grow a pumpkin that large? Sophiegirl Sep 2016 #4