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Backyard giants : the passionate, heartbreaking, and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever / Susan Warren.

Title: Backyard giants : the passionate, heartbreaking, and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever / Susan Warren.
Author: Warren, Susan.
Publication: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2007.

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245 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

An account of the annual competition among gardeners to grow the world's largest pumpkin journeys to county fairs and weigh-offs across the country in search of the ultimate prize, the world's first fifteen-hundred-pound pumpkin, over the course of a single season.

Alternative Title

Passionate, heartbreaking, and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-245).

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Contents

A look back -- Dick and Ron -- Seeds -- All pumpkins aren't orange -- Dirt -- Planting -- A change in the weather -- The troubles -- The killer cross -- Choices -- Grow 'em big -- Humpty Dumpty -- The reckoning -- Topsfield -- It is what it is.

ISBN

9781596912786
1596912782

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Harvard Library