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Festival organiser John Leadbetter said it was a great achievement for Oliver and the festival.
While it did produce a record-breaking pumpkin this year, entries to the festival were down due to unfavourable growing conditions. It s just been too hot for it. We had hot, dry weather, and then we went to hot, humid weather, and they don t like that. They like to be dry and cool, Leadbetter said.
What does it take to grow a giant pumpkin?
Oliver, who set an Australasian record with a 743-kilogram pumpkin in 2015, said growing giant gourds involved a lot of work. People are changing the way they re growing them nowadays, he said.
Published January 12, 2021
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A gardener from Knockrow, near Ballina in northern NSW, has set the record for the chonkiest pumpkin in the Southern Hemisphere. And I’m jealous of it.
Dale Oliver‘s substantial squash was weighed on Saturday at the Summerland Pumpkin Competition at Kyogle, where it clocked 867kg.
The previous Southern Hemisphere record holder was Oliver’s South African nemesis (we assume)
A monster pumpkin has set a new record and is set for a retirement involving baby photos, its seed harvested, and most likely an ending as cattle fodder.