Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 29, 1966
Caption:
Heavy Handful: This is not an early Halloween treat left by the Great Pumpkin, but the 88-pound Hungarian squash grown by experimental gardner H. A. Grodell of Pinckney.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 9, 1965
Caption:
Siamese Peach? The Buck Rogers fin (or extra ear, if you prefer) on this peach from a tree in the yard of Nash Wright of 2119 Arlene is as delicately colored as the main body of the fruit and seems to contain firm peach meat. It was discovered growing, in robust health, among normal peaches on the tree.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 20, 1963
Caption:
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, October 4, 1961
Caption:
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, May 31, 1962
Caption:
Roy (left) and Jeffrey More pick out the choice stalks of asparagus for their mother, Mrs. Keith A. More, to cut for their daddy's supper. The garden is one of the Mores' many family projects, which including building their home at 1211 Hogback Rd. and raising a litter of kittens.