Competitive pumpkin growers compete globally, for thousands of dollars and glory, to grow the biggest gourds.
Dave Stelts leans on a 1791 pound pumpkin as he talks about raising giant pumpkins at the farm he and his wife, Carol, own in Enon Valley, Pa. Sept. 26, 2024.ENON VALLEY, Pa. — In the valley of giants, pumpkins heavier than grand pianos rest atop cushioned pallets waiting to be weighed, while the mad scientist who grew them from tiny seeds sized them up from afar.
Western Pennsylvania and Ohio — Stelts saw smoke plumes from the 2023 East Palestine train derailment from his driveway— are hotbeds for competitive pumpkin growing. Is it the climate, the soil, a more Midwestern vibe west of Harrisburg? No one’s sure, but you won’t find many rhinoceros-size pumpkins in the Philadelphia region or Garden State.
When asked about his competition, Dave’s gaze, his soul, too, it seemed, settled on something far beyond his pumpkins, across the proverbial pond, to England, where identical twin brothers, his arch nemeses, were growing pumpkins that were, possibly, even bigger.When reached by The Inquirer at the family nursery along England’s southern coast, near Southampton, Ian Paton said Stelts is one of his closest friends in the States. But there’s a but there.
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