Weigh-in imminent: Mark Murphy opens up the side of an enclosure that houses the giant pumpkin at his farm in Central Kitsap, Wash., on Tuesday. Murphy thinks the pumpkin he’s been growing at his home near Bangor will weigh more than 1,100 pounds. That would weigh about 300 pounds more than his heaviest previous gourd. And it could win one of the cash prizes Saturday when the Pacific Northwest Giant Pumpkin Growers hold a weigh-off at Central Market in Shoreline, just north of Seattle. Murphy and his partner, Sunshine Ruiz, keep their pumpkin warm and feed it a soup made from fish heads, molasses and gypsum.
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