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Thu 10 Oct 2009Growing pumpkins to scary sizes
Visitors to the OPW’s walled garden have been enthralled by its giant pumpkins while the gardeners are already busy planning for next year’s crop of show-stoppers
IT’S HARD to believe that six months have passed since gardeners Brian Quinn and Meeda Downey sowed the seed for this year’s pumpkin harvest, raising the tender young plants in heated glasshouses late last spring before planting them out into the OPW’s walled kitchen garden in the Phoenix Park in early summer.
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