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Sharing the seeds
Posted by Shawn Callahan - 11/03/06
Filed in Anecdotes.
Filed in Anecdotes.
In October for the past 36 years Half Moon Bay in California holds a pumpkin competition. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season wins. One winner, upon accepting the prize, gave a handful of his winning pumpkin seeds to his neighbours. When asked why he would give such a marvellous advantage to next year’s competitors he said, “pumpkins grow by cross-pollination and if everyone around me was growing healthy and large pumpkins, I have a higher chance of growing healthy and large pumpkins.”
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