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It’s not too late to plant seeds of squash, pumpkins or gourds for entering this fall’s 2010 Bowood Farms Pumpkin Contest — to be judged on Sat. Oct. 23 at the garden center, 4605 Olive Street in the Central West End.
This contest is part of Bowood’s third-annual “BOO-wood!” pre-Halloween event, one that’s full of pumpkin carvings , prizes and free Halloween snacks.
The Pumpkin Contest is open to home gardeners, community gardeners, children, school groups – anyone who’s growing their own pumpkins for private use, not for sale. Six categories in the contest are: (1) Best Overall Pumpkin; (2) Smallest Pumpkin, at maturity; (3) Biggest Pumpkin; (4) Best Pumpkin Grown by a Child (12 and under); (5) Best Pumpkin Relative (Melon, Squash or Gourd); (6) Goofiest Pumpkin, ones with supremely odd and whacky shapes, warts or bumps or anything “scary.” Find an entry form and contest guidelines at www.bowoodfarms. com, click on Calendar of Events, scroll down to Oct. 23 and find “Click here to print a copy of the guidelines and entry form.” Or, visit Bowood Farms, 4605 Olive Street in the Central West End 63108, and ask for a form. Judges this year are to be Chip Tynan, senior horticulturist and Answer-man at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and June Hutson, senior horticulturist and supervisor of the Kemper Center for Home Gardening at the botanical garden. Prizes to the six category winners will include gift bags of Bowood Farms gift certificates, seeds and more, plus photos of winning the pumpkins on the Bowood Farms Web site. For more information, please email Bowood’s events consultant Becky Homan, at becky.homan@sbcglobal.net, or call Bowood Farms at 314-454-6868.
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Garden pictured in Bowood pumpkin contest notice. Descriptive caption supplied; photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2010.
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