What is the key to growing giant prize-winning vegetables?

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Answer 1

miracle Grow...

Answer 2

The first thing that comes to mind is the seed that you start with. There are a lot of organizations that are devoted to growing bigger vegetables. When they have their official weigh-ins is a good time to go and touch base with other growers of large veggies. THEY SELL THEIR SEEDS. Generally, the seeds are labeled as: the last name of the person and then the weight of the vegetable...i.e. Smith 654 would mean a ?pumpkin? grown by a Smith that weighed in at 654 lbs. You could join the organization, the fees are not astronomical, and attend informational meetings. But don't expect any of those EXPERTS to give away their best secrets...but they will offer some advice.
I live in the Northeastern U.S Get in touch with me if you are near to that location, and I will email you the name of at least one such group of growers.

Answer 3

Hi! Years ago I had an allotment where I grew lots of vegetables; I won prizes for peas, beans and cauliflower.

How? The secret is in the food. Feed them the right stuff and they'll grow big and fat. Cauliflower - stamp them well into the soil, they like hard ground.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Very good soil with all the amendments, I use chicken manure with garden lime(garden lime is to counter the zink from the chicken wire). Plus I dig in all my kitchen waste. I water to keep the soil moist, but not wet. Depending on the vegetable I will do other things such as for "huge" pumpkins, I will only keep one baby pumpkin per vine and in addition to manure and regular food, I will use stale beer to increase the size of the pumpkin.

Answer 5

The location, soil type;that is how rich the soil is for growing vegies. The right time of planting, also known as season. Watering them and weeding around them to give them more air and space. Basically paying attention to the vegetables with care and attention.

Answer 6

By radiating them...Then getting enough bribe money to influence all the judges so automatically they would be considered "PRIZE-WINNING" no matter the outcome. People are so influenced by the hype sometimes they hardly look at the product. So you can get a DIGITAL camera and make them appear in pictures as if they are GIGANTIC....Do you understand? You usually do not taste or eat products entered in these competitions anyway

Answer 7

The key to growing giant prize- winiinig are by advitising your product to people, and giving in low prize, and telling whom ever bought this products will win a fantastics prizes.

Answer 8

If you are aiming at large gourds or pumpkins, remove all but one or two so the energy all goes to them for size.

Put serious energy into the ground preparation before planting anything. Install soakers for your plants and liquid fertilizer is always good.

Many vegetables like warm but not hot weather . (Spring and fall in the south) Our heat kills off the plants in the summer.

Answer 9

Whatever you feed 'em, however much sun/warmth/care you give 'em... make sure the roots' tips are wet, and keep the roots' lengths in the ground/soil/compost as dry as you can. Feed the water from below, in other words. You can do it with a tube from above, of course..

Answer 10

Compost in the soil before you plant your vegetables. After planting, water often. Helps to discuss with the garden center before you purchase the plants what kinds of plants grow well in whatever soil you have. I like to place landscape plastic around my plants, because weeds do not grow around plants and the plants are nourished after you water them.

Answer 11

Like a 40 gal drum full of brown gold for one carrot.
Do I win a prize?