The Great Kaitoke Pumpkin Harvest

The first Annual Kaitoke Pumpkin Harvest was a great success. Thank you to all those that participated!! Despite the terrible weather, giant home grown pumpkins, delicious pumpkin pies and wonderfully carved pumpkins kept rolling through the doors.

Congratulations to

The Wright Family of Water works Road who grew the largest pumpkin in Kaitoke history weighing in at a whooping 34.88kg!!

Results

Largest Home Grown Pumpkin

1st The Wright Family 34.88kg

2nd Mangaroa School 26.74kg (pumpkin pictured below)

3rd Mangaroa School 25.54kg (pumpkin pictured below)

The yummiest Pumpkin Pie

1st Tracey Wyatt

2nd Bernadette Loveridge

3rd Jill Philpott / Tracey Wyatt

Best Average sized Pumpkin

1st Rachel Brocklebank 16.6kg

2nd Paul Hopkins 17.34kg

3rd Plateau School 11.52kg

The Most Creative Carved Pumpkin

1st Paul Hopkins

2nd Lorraine Johnston

3rd Pierce Johnston

A big thank you to all the judges, the Kaitoke Country Gardens and the following local stores that kindly donated prizes.

The Warehouse Upper Hutt . Ascot Movie theatre

Nude Natural Skin Care. Paws and Claws

Newbolds. Kaitoke Country Gardens

King of Knives Lower Hutt. Archabolds

For Photo’s of the event please have a peek at our HUHANZ face book page!!

These are some of the Pumpkins that were donated to the animals at HUHA Animal sanctuary!!