Get Ready For The 3rd Annual SLO County Great Pumpkin Contest Thursday, October 16, 2008
2007 Contest Results
The Second Annual SLO Co. Great Pumpkin Contest was held during the San Luis Obispo Downtown Association’s Thursday Night Farmers’ Market, on October 18, 2007 on Chorro Street. Giant pumpkins can grow between 200 and 1,700 pounds, with the world record pumpkin weighing in at over 1,600 pounds. Here is how the San Luis Obispo County pumpkins sized up...
Heaviest Pumpkin Category
Heaviest Pumpkin - $750
Grown By: Brian Evans: 606 lbs.
San Luis Obispo
1st runner up - $500
Grown By: Rick Tibben: 582
Nipomo
2nd runner up - $250
Grown By: Randy Cavanagh: 562
Arroyo Grande
Sponsored by Coast National Bank
Heviest 4-H and FFA Pumpkin
Heaviest 4-H Pumpkin - $250
Grown By: Whitney Lehnhoff: 375
Heaviest FFA Pumpkin - $250
Grown By: Allie Flores: 169
Sponsored by Kellogg Garden Products
Most Beautiful
Most Beautiful Pumpkin - $250
Grown By: Robyn Righetti
San Luis Obispo
Sponsored by Farm Supply
Most Unusual
Most Unusual Pumpkin - $250
Grown By: Carrie Rick Lehnhoff
Sponsored by Farm Supply
Special Thank You
A special thank you goes out to the Sponsors of the 2007 SLO Co. Great Pumpkin Contest.
Officials from the San Luis Obispo County Department of Agriculture/Weights and Measures and the Cal Poly BioResources and Ag Engineering department who certified the weighing results.
Our local celebrity judges who awarded prizes in the most beautiful and most unusual categories sponsored by Farm Supply.
Coast National Bank, who sponsored the top prize for the heviest pumpkins.
Kellogg Garden Products, who awarded to the heaviest pumpkin grown by a 4-H and FFA student with a nice prize.
Big Images for printing the Great Pumpkin signs and banners, Apple Box Studios for producing the promotional material and Mediums for printing the Lifting Team shirts.
SLO Co. Young Farmers and Ranchers for donating their time as the official Pumpkin Lifting Team sponsored by Quinn Rental Services.
During the summer, the Farm Bureau and Farm Supply seeded the contest by donating enough seeds and sprouts to grow approximately 5,000 pumpkin plants. Local giant pumpkin grower, Paul Rys, donated over 2,000 seeds from his personal collection. A portion of those were then sprouted in the Talley Vegetables’ seed chamber in Arroyo Grande and distributed to the 4-H and FFA at local community events.
The San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau would like to thank all the participants and congratulate winners of the Second Annual SLO County Great Pumpkin Contest.
Download: 2007 Contest Entry Form.pdf
All Entry forms must be received by October 16th to be officially entered in the contest.
Download:
Giant Pumpkin Growing 101.pdf
Calabaza Gigante 101.pdf (spanish version)
2006 Contest Results
Heaviest Pumpkin:
714 pounds
Grown By: Jill Duncan
San Luis Obispo County
Prize: $500
Sponsored by:
Most Beautiful Pumpkin:
Grown by: Suzie Allen
San Luis Obispo County
Prize: $125 Gift Certificate
Sponsored by:
Most Unusual Pumpkin
Grown By: Joe Sabol
San Luis Obispo County
Prize: $125 Gift Certificate
Sponsored by:
Heaviest Pumpkin, Junior Devision
404 pounds
Grown By: Mathew Ortiz
San Luis Obispo County
Prize: $50 Gift Certificate
Sponsored by: