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VIDEO: Titans of the garden: Manitoba’s giant pumpkin growers
Country Crossroads, Local news

VIDEO: Titans of the garden: Manitoba’s giant pumpkin growers

From seed to spectacular, we follow one giant pumpkin grower aiming for top honours at the Roland Pumpkin Fair

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Roland, Man., is one of three Western Canadian sites hosting a Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weigh-off since 1995. In early October, growers bring gigantic homegrown pumpkins for judging in hopes of earning cash prizes and bragging rights with a new record-breaking weight pumpkin. It’s no small undertaking, says Art Cameron, Roland pumpkin grower and chair of the fair. Watch Cameron
Winnipeg-based pumpkin grower 13-year-old Milan Lukes is eagerly awaiting the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-Off on October 3 to find out if he’s got a winning entry this year. This is his third year growing giant pumpkins.
Opinion

Editorial: Ag in a (pumpkin) shell

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Some kids are just born to grow. Our front page recently featured Milan Lukes’ journey into the world of giant pumpkins (see above) as he prepared for this past weekend’s 25th annual Roland Pumpkin Fair. One one hand, it’s a story about a pretty impressive 13-year-old who has converted his family’s suburban backyard into a
Winnipeg-based pumpkin grower 13-year-old Milan Lukes is eagerly awaiting the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-Off on October 3 to find out if he’s got a winning entry this year. This is his third year growing giant pumpkins.
Local news

Pumpkin growers ready to vie for 2015 heavyweight title

Self-professed pumpkin-growing addicts will converge on Roland Oct. 3
 to find out who will be this year’s heavyweight champion

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Milan Lukes has crawled inside the pumpkins he grows. He fits in the cavity because he’s only 13 years old. He dug into them last year and in 2013 to collect seed. “There’s room for people my size in them, which is cool,” says the teen from St. Norbert who is growing pumpkins again this
Pumpkin Pie Fudge
Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Those little orange boxes at Halloween

Recipe Swap: Thai Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes, and Pumpkin Pie Fudge

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I love the cute kids in bunny and pirate costumes who come to my door October 31. They remind me that, despite the silly spendfest Halloween has become, it’s still a celebration for children. Halloween now ranks second only to Christmas in sales, followed by back-to-school spending, according to the Retail Council of Canada. I
Crops, News

Fermenting tomato seeds the short road to removing membrane

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Some families hand down furniture, others inherit jewelry, but Jim Ternier’s family legacy was a handful of melon seeds. And he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Ternier is the owner of Prairie Garden Seeds based in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and has made a living growing and selling seeds for the last 30 years. “Saving
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Pumpkins Perk Up After Wet Spring

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Things are coming up orange for pumpkin producers this year, despite a wet beginning for some. Not a bad crop at all, a little light though, said Trevor Schriemer of Schriemer Family Farm near Otterburne. But considering we had so much hot and dry weather, not bad at all. Schriemer began growing pumpkins four years
Country Crossroads

The Jacksons – for Oct. 13, 2011

There is no other day, no other time that smells as good as Thanksgiving. The aroma of roast turkey, fresh stuffing and hot gravy and garlic mashed potatoes seems to have an appeal that even a beef roast can t quite live up to. You might ask, what s different about the smell of a
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In The Land Of Giants

Ever so gently, members of the Roland Fire and Rescue Department Ken Dhoore (left) and Jaun Friesen lower the biggest pumpkin Roland has ever seen onto the scale at the Oct. 1 Roland Pumpkin Fair. This monster weighed in at a whopping 1,379.5 pounds, handily beating out the other 20 entries and securing the $1,000
Country Crossroads

Make Some Halloween Creatures

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With names like Baby Boo, Jack Be Little, Goblin Eggs, New Moon, Lumina, Warlock and Gargoyle, miniature pumpkins and decorative squash are perfect for creating all sorts of Halloween crafts and decorations. Children particularly enjoy making various Halloween creatures out of these often bizarre-shaped squash, either by carving them or by simply drawing faces on
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Carrot Crop Challenge

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Carrots keep me guessing. In spring if I scatter the seed liberally in the rows, only the odd carrot deigns to surface. But if I am stingy when I sow, in a few weeks I have carrots jostling each other for space. When I could do with a good-size crop, the carrots I am counting

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