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Little-TON - Colorado

Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable Growers

2007 Weigh Off Results

Great Job by all the growers who entered their fruits in on 2nd Annual Weigh Off up at Jareds this year.

Joe Scherber- !Wow! 1075 on his 1407 Hemphill ***New Colorado State Record***

Barry Todd - Third heaviest ever in Colorado @ 910 lbs grown on the 1105 Glasier Nice Job Barry

Jim "TheBiz" Grande - 757 on his 1502 Wallace -18% Heavy**

Gary "TheWiz" Grande - 641 on his 805 Pukos- 3% Heavy

Gary Shenfish- 596 on the 840 Parks

Pete Mohr - 489 on the 1446.5 Werner

Greg Hopson - 447 on the 1097 Beachy

Keith Doggett 411 on his 442 Doggett

Tom Osborne - 370lbs

Kirk Volkel 353- 1173 Macari

Jamie Kogl - 259 lbs.

Aaron Dew - 250 lbs.

Richard Plush - 243 lbs

John Rhodes - 181 lbs

Brian McHugh - 132 lbs

James Quirk - 80 lbs

Exhibit - Gary Grande 651 lbs on his 500 Wallace- 19% Heavy.

Also the New Colorado State Record for Green Squash was set at 336 lbs by Gary Grande and went 33% Heavy on his selfed 848*McKenzie.
And a New Colorado State Record for Long Gourds at 111 inches by Joe Scherber.

The Purrtiest Pumpkin award went to Gary Grande grown on the 1191 Zunino pumpkin.

We also had giant marrows, watermelons, big tomatoes and sunflower heads that showed well.............Great Job Growers........Thanks Aaron!

Great Job to all the growers for this years weigh off. We had a great showing of spectators and we thank everyone for making it such a great event.

Watch for more news in our next newsletters, and seeds from these great genetic pumpkins will be available in our 2008 RMGVG membership package......Details coming soon. Email TheWiz with your questions.....

Thanks Again......We ARE Growing BIG

Gary J Grande
President and CEO - Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable Growers
[email protected]
www.ColoradoPumpkins.com

10/1/2007 10:22:22 AM

North Smithfield, RI USA

Congratulations to All !!!

10/1/2007 5:45:45 PM

Somerset,Ky

Congratulations to All

10/1/2007 7:01:43 PM

South Dakota

Congrats everyone!!!

10/1/2007 10:07:15 PM

[email protected]

Good show. Congrats!

10/1/2007 11:21:14 PM