A 929-pound pumpkin.A 175-pound watermelon.
Who’s behind these freakishly large crops? A man by the name of Mr. Mudd. And he’s got the market cornered at the Kentucky State Fair for largest melon – he’s been taking the blue ribbon home for that contest eight years running.
Frank Mudd of Flaherty, Ky. said his pumpkins, one weighing nearly 900 pounds and the other weighing over 929 pounds, could yield nearly 1,000 pumpkin pies. But that’s not why he grows them.
He uses hardly any fertilizer when growing his giant produce, but instead makes his own compost, made of trash and leaves.
As he shakes the hand of contest superintendent and former Fair board member, J. Robert Miller, in his bright green and yellow John Deere cap, Mudd seems all too humble to be the decorated grower of such a fine harvest.
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