Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival

Saturday, September 16, 2023

 

This year’s Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival was a GIANT success! A big thank you to our wonderful sponsors — Skagit Food Co-op and Tractor Supply

And THANK YOU to all who visited the Nursery and participated in the fall festivities. We couldn’t have asked for more beautiful weather. It was such a treat to be amongst giant pumpkin growers and giant vegetable enthusiasts.

We witnessed some exemplary pumpkins, squash, and vegetables today! What a GIANT success all thanks to the amazing folks of the Giant Pumpkin Commonwealth, volunteers, vendors, and of course, the wonderful community who joins us every year at the Nursery for this wonderful festival. Thank you for another amazing year 🎃

Coming in first place, a first-time grower, Harvey Cardwell from Oregon City delivered a giant at 1460 pounds! We think he has quite the future in growing giant pumpkins… we will have to see what is to come next year!

Our Giant Pumpkin Growers:

CARDWELL
OREGON CITY
1460 pounds

BARKER
BONNEY LK
1210 pounds

PUGH
PUYALLUP
1401.5 pounds

RADACH
STANWOOD
639.5 pounds

RADACH
STANWOOD
835.5 pounds

J. MILLER
OMAK
666.5 pounds

B. MILLER
ОМАК
546.5 pounds

SNODGRESS
LYNDEN
640 pounds

RADICH MOUNT VERNON (squash)
342.5 pounds

BAIRD
SEATTLE
349 pounds

WILLIAMS
SNOHOMISH
341.5 pounds

RADACH (Ex)
144 pounds

BRIGHAM
ROCKPORT
130.5 pounds

We wholeheartedly welcome fall for its brisk winds and autumnal color which serves as a seasonal backdrop for the Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, September 16, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This in-person event celebrates agritourism with a Weigh-Off competition for pumpkin-growing hobbyists and giant vegetable growers.  Enjoy this complimentary, family-fun event and a chance to win cash prizes for your giant pumpkin.

2023 Pay Schedule:

First Place Giant Pumpkin Winner Receives $2000 cash prize

NEW $500 to largest Squash

 2nd Place-$850
3rd Place-700
4th Place $300
5th Place $200
6th Place $50
7th Place $50
8th Place $25
9th Place $25
10th Place $25
Howard Dill Prettiest Pumpkin $100
Ugliest Pumpkin $25
Christianson’s Nursery is an official weigh-off site for the Giant Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC), an international organization, sanctioned to submit giant pumpkin world records.

 

Schedule of Events

9 a.m. – noon
 Entries for the Weigh-Off accepted
Watch the parade of deliveries
No Deliveries Accepted Past NOON

 

9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
 Enjoy family orientated gamed and festivities and carnival games including the
A-maze-ing Hay Maze with Mount Vernon’s Camp Korey

 

11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Beautiful Face Painting ($5 cash only),
toad observatory, and carnival games

 

11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Campstuff Coffee Cart, Kettle Corn

 

Noon – 3 p.m.
Bluegrass music by Laurel Bliss, John Clark, and Andy Rick

 

Noon – 4 p.m.
Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off
Prizes will be awarded throughout the Weigh-Off

 

3:30-4 p.m.
The winner of the SVGPF Weigh-Off announced

 

Download our Giant Pumpkin Festival Entry From to submit your pumpkins, squash, super-size garden vegetables (zucchini, tomatoes, gourds), and flowers in this year’s Weigh-Off

 

 

A special thanks to our dedicated sponsors for their financial support:

Skagit Valley Co-op

The Pacific Northwest Giant Pumpkin Growers

 

Coastal Farm and Ranch

Tractor Supply

A special note of thanks to the Pacific Northwest Giant Pumpkin Growers Club and Club Representative Geoff Gould.

The Giant Pumpkin Commonwealth, a worldwide organization designated to record world records, stated:

“There were 107 sites for weigh-offs around the world in 2017.

Second place most improved site with 67% from 2016 was Christianson’s Nursery Weigh-off in Mount Vernon, Washington.”