It was only a year ago when Brent Rouble paddled down St. Marys River in the hollowed out shell of his 897-pound prize winner
The Sault’s Brent Rouble took first place for growing the heaviest pumpkin at the Algoma Farmers Market’s annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off held Saturday at the Roberta Bondar Pavilion.The win was a repeat for Rouble who won first place last yea with a gourd that weighed 897 pounds.
“In his defence, the pumpkin king Kieran O’Neill with the record number of wins didn’t compete these last two years,” Rouble said with a chuckle while chatting with SooToday. Putting the time and effort into pumpkin growing is key, Rouble said, having planted his seeds in April. “I’d love to sell it if anyone wants to buy it. If not, I’d love to find someone with a crane and lift it up as high as it can go, drop it and smash it. That would be cool. Or it would be nice to hollow it out, fill it with candy, put it on the crane, drop it and let kids just get all the candy. I think that would be fun. If we could do that near The Machine Shop, I’d do it today.
“The Junior Gardeners program starts in April. They come once a week for two hours and they help me plant the gardens in the way the early pioneers gardened. They make jams, pickles, all the types of things the early pioneers would’ve done. Growing pumpkins is something I connect to Francis Hector Clergue’s time period in the 1890s,” Faulkner said.
Pino’s Get Fresh gift cards of $200 and $100 went to first and second place winners respectively while a $50 gift card from Shaw Milling went to the third place contestant.
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