Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 13, 1964
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Grows Giant Squash: Homer F. Bruneau of 3423 Carpenter Rd., Pittsfield Township, is shown here with a giant "Hundred Weight" squash measuring 62 inches in circumference and estimated to weigh 50 pounds that he grew in his home garden. Bruneau, who says he uses organic gardening methods exclusively, obtained the squash seeds that produced the giant plant from Oregon.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 23, 1963
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Some Squash! Emery Gates of 126 E. Summit St. shows a 21 1/2 pound squash he grew in a small garden within the Ann Arbor city limits. The huge squash, measuring 16 inches ling by 9 inches wide, was grown from an ordinary squash seed on rocky ground near railroad tracks where Gates says " you wouldn't expect anything to grow." The squash is the color of a watermelon, but has a rougher skin surface. Gates also grew giant collards, an "extremely healthy" crop of other vegetables and several hundred pounds more of outsize squashed in the garden.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 20, 1963
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Biggest in 37 Years: Mrs. Lena Maier show a carrot and a beet typical of the extraordinary crop she harvested this year from her 115-by-100-foot vegetable garden at 70 Margaret St. in Whitmore Lake. The carrot weighs 2 1/4 pounds and the beet weighs 4 1/2 pounds. Mrs. Maier says the huge vegetables were the rule, rather than the exception, this year in her garden. She has had the same ground under continuous cultivation as a garden since 1926, and has always had normal sized vegetables. She uses commercial fertilizers with high available nitrogen, a leaf mulch and ordinary seeds. None of these factors was changed for her spectacular 1963 crop.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 28, 1962
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Swelled Head: This oversize head of cabbage is the prize of Donald Danner, 17, of 6780 Whitmore Lake Rd., shown weighing his Copenhagen Market special. Donald grew it in his garden and its peak weight was 19 pounds. Drying reduced the weight slightly.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 4, 1961
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Big: Sanford Phillips of 1096 Holmes Rd., Ypsilanti township, holds his entry in this year's undeclared contests to find Washtenaw County's largest Citrullus Vulgaris. His 60-pound, eight-cubic-feet watermelon was raised in a half-acre hobby garden that includes beans, potatoes, and corn.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 26, 1964
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'Tater Teddy' Carol Schunk, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Schunk of 2664 Miller Rd., holds a potato "teddy-bear" which is a natural product of her own potato patch in the family garden.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 11, 1950
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TEN TO ONE, IT'S A TOMATO: The redundant tomato, shown above, is being held by its owner, and grower, Mrs. Marion Starry of 716 Hutchins Ave. Mother Nature joined 10 individual tomatoes.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 30, 1971
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This marigold plant, owned by Doug Barnett of 800 Westwood, grew to a remarkable height of 50 inches, and it has 45 orange flowers on it. Barnett's daughter, Shelley, is dwarfed by the plant. Barnett, supervisor of mail service at the U-M, grew it from seed he planted last spring, and he was surprised when it grew as tall as it did. "It's a good-sized plant," commented Jim Duffield, a teaching fellow in the U-M Botany Department, who has grown marigolds. Duffield suspects the plant may be an African marigold, so called even though it is a native of central America and has nothing to do with Africa. Hybrids of this species, says Duffield, usually grow from 30 inches to 36 inches, but some other hybrids are known to get taller than 42 inches.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 31, 1972
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Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lupi at Home With Their Sunflower