Grow a Giant Pumpkin with Charlie Costello

Please join us at Merryspring Nature Center for a workshop on growing giant pumpkins!  There are several special techniques to grow a giant pumpkin, beginning with the seed itself, and ending with a real GIANT pumpkin five or six months later.  Come to this 2-hour workshop to learn these tips and tricks and see pumpkin plants in varying stages, from starting a seed to waiting for the fourth leaf, and take one home. The seeds were sourced from a master pumpkin grower in California named Leonardo Ureña, with the originating seed coming from a 1911-pound pumpkin. Leonardo has competed and won at least seven times in California weigh-offs.

Pre-registration is required and limited 10 people.  Cost: members $10, non-members $15.  To register, please call Toni at 207-236-2239.

This talk is part of Merryspring’s Online Winter Talk series, co-sponsored by Camden Riverhouse Hotel, Renys, A Maine Adventure, and Camden National Bank.   

This one link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83922205228 will allow access to ALL of our onlne talks and can also be found on our calendar https://merryspring.org/calendar/, or you may request the link by sending an email to info@merryspring.org.

Online talks are held as Zoom webinars and are open to everybody, free of charge.

Merryspring is your community nature center offering walking trails, cultivated gardens, wildlife, and ecology and horticulture educational programs all year round. The park is located at the end of Conway Road, just off of Route 1 in Camden behind Hannaford Shopping Plaza. For more information on this program, please contact info@merryspring.org or call 207-236-2239.