{"id":13223,"date":"2011-10-13T15:33:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2011-10-19T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:10:38","slug":"weighing-the-giant-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/10\/around-the-garden\/weighing-the-giant-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing the Giant Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Giant<\/a>It\u2019s that time of year again, when pumpkins are harvested and brought to county fairs and farm stands to be weighed at one of the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth<\/a>‘s regional weigh offs.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth’s five U.S. regions<\/a> host a total of 54 weigh\u2013offs. Anticipation of these weigh-offs has been building at The New York Botanical Garden<\/a> as we will host the GPC\u2019s Showcase of Champions beginning October 21. The Showcase of Champions,\u00a0 as part of the Haunted Pumpkin Garden<\/em><\/a>, will feature the three largest pumpkins from the regional weigh-offs. The pumpkins will be on display October 21 – October 30 and will be carved October 22-23 by pumpkin-carving provocateur Ray Villafane,<\/a> and October 29-30 by creator of the gourd-geous installations in the Haunted Pumpkin Garden<\/em><\/a>, Michael Natiello<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Check out a slideshow of my visit to one of the New England regional pumpkin weigh-offs.<\/p>\n[Not a valid template]\n

There were many contenders for year’s heaviest pumpkin at this event, but I also knew that on Monday, October 10 the final giant pumpkin weigh\u2013off would take place in Half Moon Bay, CA. So who will be showing their pumpkins at the Garden this year? Well, you could search the Internet and find out, or you could stay tuned to Plant Talk<\/a>, where I will reveal the winning growers on Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, the Garden will be hosting three of the year’s heaviest pumpkins. This year they will be carved by Ray Villafane and Michael Natiello!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":13227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952],"tags":[896,1821,1806,1808,38,4694,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0979.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-3rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13350,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions\/13350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}