This morning (Saturday 22 October) The garden-at-Fritz ended a fabulously successful and productive year growing vegetables for local food banks by celebrating – in pouring rain – the weigh-in for our Annual Youth Pumpkin Contest.
Each season young people from the town are invited to “adopt” a pumpkin seed which they plant and tend during the summer months with the object of growing the largest pumpkin ready for Halloween.
- First prize was taken by Ana Gagnon at 110lbs
- Second prize went to Sophie Hamdan at 100 lbs
- Third prize was awarded to Claudia Tierry with a pumpkin of 80 lbs
Our congratulations to the winners and our thanks to the other 15 contestants for taking part.
(Click on any of the thumbnails below to see a full-size image in a slide show)
Sophie Hamdan and her prize-winning 100lb pumpkin
Not a pumpkin grower 🙂
Winning pumpkins ready for distribution to the homes of their growers
Garden at Fritz / Jardin à Fritz 
It was an adventure finding which pumpkin led to whose plant! It was a jungle out there. Some of the pumpkins were completely hidden by vines and it was a surprise to discover yet more pumpkins than anticipated.
Who knew Pumpkins could grow so beautifully ??
Congratulations Everyone!!! What a successful Year!!!!