"It was a poor year for pumpkins," said Maynard Serfass. But his
pumpkin patch was good enough to earn the backyard gardener
first place at the Allentown Fair.  He said he has a cousin who
grows big pumpkins but those were eaten by a groundhog.  Serfass
said he had trouble with cucumber beetles on his pumpkin patch.
They should have been sprayed with fungicide and insecticide as
soon as he moved them to the garden - he starts his plants
indoors.  Serfass always had a garden at his Towamensing home
and in 2003-2004 he saw some Martha Stewart Big Max seeds at
Walmart.  "They grew all over the place, even up the trees. They
went out of the garden and down into the woods - the little
pumpkins," he said.  But then he heard about the Atlantic Giant
pumpkins and bought a few seeds at www.bigseeds.com [3] which
has a statement that "our giant pumpkin seed has the potential
to grow a 2,000 lb. pumpkin."  In 2004 he had a couple of nice
pumpkins that he used to line the driveway. Someone told him
they were show quality