Friday, 28. March 2003

Giant pumpkin to feed whole hospital


PUMPKIN soup will be a regular fixture on the Port Lincoln Hospital menu when it takes delivery of a 440 kg pumpkin - the largest grown in Australia.

The Atlantic Giant Pumpkin was grown in the tuna fishing town on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula by Ken Holden, who in the process regained the national record he had previously held for several years.

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