How do you grow a colossal pumpkin?

Farmer Dave Brown explains the secrets to cultivating enormous seasonal gourds

Photo By: Gary AllenHalloween, super-sized —
Dave Brown, owner/operator of Mustard Seed Farms, grew and sold more than 1,000 pumpkins this year, including dozens that, like these, weighed more than 150 pounds.
   ST. PAUL — What do you do with a 200-pound pumpkin?    It’s not an unfamiliar question for organic farmer Dave Brown, whose smallest formal classification of pumpkin is between 100 and 150 pounds (“jumbo”).



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