Written by admin on 24 October 2010
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Students from JK-Gr.8 at Ecole Publique Franco-Manitou walked, with teachers and parent volunteers Friday morning, October 22nd, to visit Joan and Neil Mongrain, parents and co-gardeners with Dean Mongrain. The Mongrain family are well known in Manitouwadge for their giant vegetables, pumpkins, zuchinni, and others, some of which have even broken records.
This year’s fall crop for the Mongrain’s was focused on two giant pumpkins; Joan explained to the group how they had manually polenated their pumpkin plants, in spite of a healthy garden with plenty of bees, not leaving anything to chance. They also groomed their plants as they began to grow, leaving just the two healthies looking pumpkins on the vine, also put the odds in their favour that these would be large, hearty vegetables. The pumpkins, because of the type and size, are not the typical sweet pumpkins bought from grocery stores and suitable for pumpkin pies; these, explained Joan, would be destined for compost once they finished growing.
Finally, Joan added a bit of a math lesson to the visit, explaining to the kids how the approximate weight of the pumpkin is established; using three seperate circumference measurements; they were all impressed to learn each of the giant pumpkins were estimated to be weighing in over 200lbs.
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MANITOUWADGE, ON – Students from JK-Gr.8 at Ecole Publique Franco-Manitou walked, with teachers and parent volunteers Friday morning, October 22nd, to visit Joan and Neil Mongrain, parents and co-gardeners with Dean Mongrain. The Mongrain family are well known in Manitouwadge for their giant vegetables, pumpkins, zuchinni, and others, some of which have even broken records.
