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Giant Pumpkin Tips From RecordBreaking Grower Ron Wallace

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Ron Wallace is renowned in the world of giant pumpkin growing as the

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first man to break the 2,000-pound barrier, after he grew a 2,009-pound
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in 2012. This month, he broke the North American record with a
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Wallace recommends that anyone who's interested in growing giant
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to ask questions and swap ideas. There's also the 1993 book
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mycorrhizal fungi, a superfungus that helps get water and nutrients into
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"Pumpkins always tell you when it's time to get weighed," Wallace says.
Often, it's just that a disease has started to creep in, and it's time to go
for it.
Wallace has developed several strategies to keep his pumpkins' weight
up. He waits to cut the vine until the last possible moment, and cuts it
long enough so it can be kept in water. He'll cover the gourds with damp
sheets to prevent evaporation.
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Wallace sees practical uses for what he and other growers have learned
as the hobby has developed. He says medical marijuana growers have
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yields, and that what they have developed has even broader
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grows produce," Wallace says. "We are doing a lot for farming."
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Gowdy has vehemently denied those claims, calling on his colleagues to

"shut up" about what they don't know. Last Sunday Gowdy said in an
interview with CBS he plans to question Clinton about her role in
denying requests to increase security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
prior to the attack. He says thousands of previously unseen emails to
and from Stevens obtained by his committee will help inform those
questions.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi was created in May of 2014
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2012 attack. Prior to Clinton's testimony today, the committee had held
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The aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence focused on the

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was being overrun by militants less than one mile way. The report
concluded that no such order had been given, despite contradictory
witness accounts given by some contracted security officers who were
there that night. It also concluded that a mixed group, including Al
Qaeda affiliates, were responsible for the attacks. It found that there had
been intelligence to support the administrations claims that the attack
was borne out of a protest, but said there was early intelligence to
counter that false assessment as well. The report declared itself as the
"definitive House statement" on the Intelligence Community's
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rage incident in Albuquerque, New Mexico, police said.
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Tony Torrez, 32, was charged with the murder of Lilly Garcia, who died
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