Last year, during the month of October, PBS ran the awesome competitive pumpkin growers documentary, Lords of the Gourd
. I’m hoping they pull this one out of their stash, in time for Halloween. I’d definitely sit down and watch it all over again. The pumpkins featured in the film are beyond enormous! Most are pushing the thousand pound mark and a few break the half ton barrier. Here’s a summary of the program from the PBS website:
“Lords of the Gourd follows Joe Pukos and fellow competitors Bill Bobier, Bernie Potter, Deb and Randy Sundstrom and Matt Vershneider through the final harrowing days of harvest and then the long journey cross-state with the bulging behemoths strapped into the backs of their pick-ups. Pukos is a contender for the top prize — until last-minute rumors circulate that another grower has a pumpkin that will break the world record. At the Cooperstown weigh-off, the massive gourds are hoisted one by one onto the scales and the moment of truth arrives. ‘You go to enough competitions and you can’t help it: You’re addicted. You do anything you can to hopefully come back with a larger one next year,’ says Verschneider.”
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