Voa Agriculture Report - Growing a Big Pumpkin. A Really Big Pumpkin

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is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Joe Jutras in a small state, Rhode Island, but he thinks . This year he grew a pumpkin weighing seven hundred kilograms. His pumpkin broke the world record set in thousand six. Another Rhode Islander, Ron Wallace, grew last champion. That one weighed six hundred eighty-one kilograms. Huge like these can sell for ten thousand dollars. Some are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a seed. Sue Jutras explained to us how her husband his record pumpkin and a few smaller but still big ones. He started the seeds indoors in April. the third leaf appeared, he planted them outdoors under temporary shelter. He removed the shelter once the root began to push against it. He buried the vines the root system could continue to grow. He fed plant a mixture containing fish and seaweed. He worked his record-breaker twenty to thirty hours each week during main growing season in July and August. He needed forklift truck to carry it to the official weighing. competition took place a few weeks ago at a in Topsfield, Rhode Island. By the way, Joe Jutras not a farmer. He operates a woodworking business ---- is, when he is not taking care of his . When Americans, especially children, think of pumpkins, they usually of Halloween on October thirty-first-. Pumpkins are a traditional of the celebration. People like to cut funny or faces into pumpkins and put a candle inside. Fresh might end up as jack-o-lanterns at Halloween. But canned meat is popular in pies, breads and other baked , and pumpkin seeds are eaten as snacks. Five states more than one hundred million dollars worth of pumpkin year. The top producers by value were Ohio, Pennsylvania, York, Illinois and California. And thats the VOA Special Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. Transcripts and MP3 of our reports are at voaspecialenglishcom.. We leave you a song by John McCutcheon called "Pumpkin Man."

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