2013 Giant Pumpkin Festival & Weigh-off
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Dwellingup Primary School P&C Association 2013 Giant Pumpkin Festival & Weigh-off |
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| Easter Saturday 30 March 2013 10am – 4pm |
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Hope to see you again, next year: Easter Saturday 19 April 2014 10am – 4pm |
| The Gate-Keeper |
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| Pre-Primary Fruit Animal |
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| Pre-Primary Vegetable Animal |
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| More Pre-Primary Vegetable Animals |
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| Competitive giant pumpkins are of the variety “Atlantic Giant”. Two on a pallet. |
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| Giant pumpkins need a forklift and pallet to move them around. The pumpkin at the back is shaped like a butternut. |
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| This year’s winning pumpkin from Loui Della Pollina is 132kg. That is two and a half times heavier than last year’s winning punk. |
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| Large watermelons are in a competitive class of their own. This one was the second heaviest. |
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| An interested by-stander! |
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| An overview of this year’s entries. The larger watermelon overhangs both sides of the bale. In the foreground shadow are several exceedingly tall sunflowers, probably “Russian Giant”. |
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| This is the annual set-up: an arc of bales with punks behind and smaller vegetables on the bales. There is also a competitive class for the largest table pumpkin. Although unspecified varieties, they look like one of the common ironbark punks such as “Jarrahdale”. |
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| The Dwellingup annual school fete occurs on the oval with about 30 stalls. I always buy two jars of fig jam from two different stalls. Mini-tractor pulls cut-down 44-gallon drums. It’s an alternative ride to those on one of the machines in the shopping centre. Oh, all right! 200L drums. |
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| Prize-giving: Dwellingup Primary School Principal Colleen Sing presents First Prize to Loui Della Pollina for his 132kg “Atlantic Giant” pumpkin. |
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| Prize-giving: Judy Giumelli collecting second prize on behalf of Robert for a pumpkin of 79.1kg. Judy said, in a spirit of friendly competitiveness, that… “a misshapen pumpkin ought not be eligible for first prize!” Robert and Loui have each won twice in the last 4 years so the competition between friends will continue to become stronger. |
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| Kevin Pratt collecting various prizes on behalf of his son, Kade: heaviest table pumpkin; most unusual fruit (Buddha’s hand); tallest sunflower; second heaviest watermelon. |
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| Buddha’s Hand is the unusual fruit grown by KP. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand> |
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| Colleen in charge! |
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| Winners are grinners! Loui Della Pollina with the perpetual trophy. Loui also won three years ago (2009) with a pumpkin of a similar weight (152.7kg). There must be something in that soil at Jarrahdale! Well done, Loui! |
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