I never really paid much attention to the "giant vegetables" in the seed catalogues before but found myself reading this forum...and since I just moved into a place with a huge garden, I figure I have room to play with new and different things! They grow some very large squash here anyway, mostly a gray/blue one with lines like a pumpkin and rather squat, with beautiful smooth deep orange flesh; I'd say they get to around 50 pounds; they sell hunks of them at the neighborhood farmers' markets.

I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of some of your giants, and if someone has a few seeds to spare, I'd be a glad recipient. (I can reciprocate with good local varieties of peppers if you are interested in that sort of things, or seeds of our big gray/blue pumpkin.)

Of course there is the question of what do with such a behemoth...I suppose if I'm successful, I can always make a killing at the farmer's market, or donate it to a (very large) soup kitchen!

bob