Pelletier, (right) in the pumpkin-coloured vest, planted Grawp in May. Beattie, left, came to see him off on Saturday morning.
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Pumpkin competitions: a lot of pride and joy

Jeff Pelletier posing with his pride and joy, known as ‘Grawp’. © CBC

Pumpking competions, as in whose is the biggest, are underway from coast to coast to coast, wherever they will grow.

“He loves Shostakovich”

In North Vancouver, an area that’s part of the biggest city in British Columbia, this 1,176-pound pumpkin, became well-known in the community as “Grawp”.

In Jeff Pelletier’s neighbourhood people watched the growth of the gourd this summer.

Named after the giant in the Harry Potter series, it’s described as “a pumpkin that comes up to your hips and weighs more than a grand piano”.

Pelletier, who planted it back in the spring, told the CBC’s Deborah Goble, that Grawp was grown for over 100 days on “good soil and good music.”

“He loves Shostakovich, I’ll tell you that much.” Pelletier shared.

This past weekend friends and neighbours came to bid it adieu!

On Saturday it was off for its big moment, at B.C.’s Giant Pumpkin Competition,  an official, “world-renowned” pumpkin weigh-off,  that takes place in Langley. 

Grawp took silver, second only to a record-breaking 1,543-pound whopper this year.​

Pelletier described second place as “fantastic,” but admitted he was “a bit blue to see the pumpkin go”.

“Tomorrow, I’ll come out and look at the patch and it will be gone and there’s always a little bit of sadness,” he said.

With files from CBC

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