Although I haven’t given up on “Gone With the Wind,” I started a new book this weekend called “Backyard Giants.” It’s a nonfiction book that follows Dick and Ron Wallace, a father/son team, in their quest to grow a 1,500-pound pumpkin.
This is serious business to the Wallaces, and author Susan Warren describes what these enormous gourds look like in chapter 1:
“The finished fruit often look less like the traditional, orange, Halloween jack-o’-lanterns than like semi-deflated balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade that have drifted into the garden.”
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