Mystery photo 1, the pumpkin stegosaur, has many brothers. Can you name them all?
my son loved them all!
My daughter thought it pretty ridiculous that this “Three-horn” is eating a pumpkin!
The entire parade is to be found at an asparagus farm south of Berlin, a farm that has a big pumpkin fair every fall. They also have a parade of different pumpkin varieties; here’s roughly one third of the Wall of Pumpkin Diversity:
They also have a 534 kg pumpkin – it didn’t win the Berlin-Brandenburg pumpkin competition, because it came from outside the state, but it is heavier than all the specimens submitted to the competition.
There was a TV report showing a record-breaking pumpkin that weighed >2,000 lbs.
Reportedly surpassing the one-ton mark represented the “four-minute mile” of gourd-raising!
I heard repeatedly that it was not a good pumpkin year in Germany.
Oh, yes! These are wonderful!