Autumn Harvest Festival

Recently opened in Germany autumn harvest festival, during which organizers had a so-called pumpkin regatta. She representant a swim in the boat, made of large fruit squash. Event held in Ludwigsburg, in a pond close to the city's main attraction - the Ludwigsburg Palace. The average weight of a pumpkin, selected to participate in the regatta, more than 90 kilograms. To build a boat for a party Regatta, pumpkin, first clean all the seeds and pulp. After this procedure, the fetus is transformed into a kind of one-boat and the party can go to the start. Pumpkin harvest festival will be held in Germany until the beginning of November. Every year for the event choose a new topic - for example, a few years ago the festival was devoted to astronomy and from pumpkins produced models of the planets, comets and other celestial objects, and in 2010 sobytiyareshili spend at sea subjects (out of pumpkins carved figures of sea animals and produced lighthouses and small fishing vessels.

a normal part of the festival is a culinary competition, during which participants make a pumpkin variety of dishes - soups, dumplings, strudels and even champagne. As always, the competition will weigh pumpkins and fairs, where you can buy the seeds of the largest fruit. A total of in different kinds of participation of more than 500,000 pumpkins. It remains to note that last year the teacher of mathematics Christy Harp raised an unprecedented record-large pumpkin weighing 782, 5 kilograms. Smaller, but still too much pumpkin weighed 45 kilograms, which rose in the garden of Mary Ognyanyk in Transcarpathian Small village Rakovets. Not really lagging behind, and others - their weight reaches more than 30 kilograms.