Jeff Warner has been rising large pumpkins for years, and now he can say he has Ontario’s largest pumpkin this season.
Warner, who’s from Englehart in northern Ontario, gained the large pumpkin competitors at Pumpkinfest, in Port Elgin, with a 892-kilogram gourd – or 1,966 kilos.
“It is about six toes vast and makes most tractors tip over,” he stated.
Warner credit a heat, sunny summer season and the precise seed for his large pumpkin.
He says he purchased a number of large pumpkin seeds at on-line auctions all through the winter. He planted all of them and waited to see which one had probably the most potential to grow to be an award-winning large.
“I simply received on the market slightly extra this yr,” he stated. “Possibly I received the precise seed and this was lastly type of my flip.”
Though he has this yr’s crown for largest pumpkin in Ontario, Warner says he is nonetheless trying to develop a uncommon pumpkin that exceeds 2,000 kilos., or roughly 907 kilograms.
Don Crews, of Lloydminster, Alta., holds the file for the most important pumpkin ever grown in Canada. His large pumpkin measured in at 2,537 kilos, or 1,150 kilograms.
