A 40-year love of pumpkins pays off for Dave Chan after the retired B.C. dentist won two recent competitions and set a new provincial record
In the spring he starts tending to the seeds from inside his home in Richmond, B.C., and spends the next six months on duty, ensuring the gourds have everything they need. When the pandemic hit, he devoted even more to his craft, building a greenhouse and keeping meticulous records of his creations.efforts have paid off. He smashed the provincial record last year with a 1,911-pound, or 867-kilogram behemoth and earlier this month, two of Mr.
He wrote a letter to Mr. Dill, labelled only “Howard Dill, Nova Scotia,” and a week later, received a reply, as well as a bunch of seeds that eventually turned into his first giant vegetable – a pumpkin weighing at 278 pounds , about half of the then world record. But Mr. Chan has grown pumpkins every year since, he noted with a chuckle. All long family vacations have happened in the non-pumpkin growing season between November and April. “We’ve had lots of holidays. So it’s not that bad.”
“I have a science background. I love to study. So it’s not really about growing pumpkins,” he said. ”It’s about studying the soil.”Jackie Dives/The Globe and Mail
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