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Friday 26 October 2012

Pumpkins!

You may remember that I was doubtful whether this year's squash would have time to mature - on 1 September there were 2 Galeux d'Eysines Squash about the size of grapefruit.

Well, here they are harvested and I'm impressed by the size and weight - probably the largest squash I've ever managed to grow in the 3 sisters bed.


They are roughly the same weight - can you guess how heavy they are?

Who's guess is the closest? 
Competition closes Sunday 28th October
at
6pm GMT


I might give a prize if someone is spot on ;-)

Celia
x

PS: the Tabby studio assistant weighs 4.5 kilos


18 comments:

  1. 6.5 kilos. Will you be carving or baking with these gorgeous pumpkins? Or will you be sharing the bounty with the chickens?

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  2. Well, my husband and I have given this very careful consideration and we think that a) the cat is very sweet and b) the pumpkins are 6.5kg each, so that's 13kg combined (2.8 cats!)

    Have a good weekend :O)

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  3. OOps we didn't notice we have the same weight as the person before us! We'll say 6kgs each instead.

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  4. Cats are quite light aren't they, and pumpkins strangely heavy, so 7 kg ish, um, 6.8kg, that's my guess, probably way out. Give the gorgeous Tabby assistant a snuggle from me :D

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  5. I definitely have to have a bash at this so I guess 7.6kg. Gorgeous cat BTW.

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  6. I reckon one is about 9kg and 1 is about 9.2 - wild guess actually!

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  7. I'm 5kg and my sister is 4.5kg and sometimes, if I jump on The Secretary she calls me a "big, fat squash"
    So I think your pumpkins might be like me and my sister...9.5kg
    (I don't like pumpkin, but my sister says it's very tasty.)

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  8. Wow, they are impressive! I have no idea about pumpkin weights so am not going to attempt a guess but I do know that I now have a desire to grow a pumpkin myself next year!
    By the way I sent off one of your wonderful cards to my dad for his birthday and as I suspected he absolutely loved it, thanks x

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  9. I am American so I don't do kilos. I'd guess about 25 pounds combined weight so 11.33 kilos.

    I like this game...such fun!

    PS- I am lovin' that kitty! : )

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  10. Love your cat! I'm no good with weights, bet 'heavy' won't be good enough! Ada :)

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  11. I've absolutely no idea how much those impressive pumpkins weight, but do want to sent along lots of praise to the feline assistant for a very impressive harvest.

    Were these the pumpkins that were growing while dancing to the rhythm of the sun in your time lapse photo video?

    xo

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  12. Heehee, I was obviously way off target with my guess going by these guesses! However, I always find pumpkins to weigh far less than they actually look. Cats too!

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  13. What a lovely photo. This caused much discussion in our household, but we are going for 3.5 kilos each. Probably way (he!he!) out!

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  14. I'm going to say 8.1kg. Which was the weight of my biggest cat, Kipper, in his prime! It was all muscle too...

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  15. I'm going for a whopping 14 kilos!

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  16. Hmmm, I'm not confident here but I'd put the bigger one at 10kg which makes the smaller one about 9.5 kg.

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  17. Water weighs heavy - litre = 1 kilo so on that basis I am going for 30 kilos or thereabouts (each one at around 15kg) based on my knowledge of how much the volumes of sugar syrup take up that I feed my bees. If we are measuring in cats, then I wager 6 cats and a litter of kittens

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  18. I haven't got a clue but I'll just pick a number that nobody else has said yet: about 5 kilos each.

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