Fred is waiting for you. He’s nestled deep in his lush, green vines and he’s growing every day.
By the time you get to admire him Saturday, he may be Dane County’s largest pumpkin at perhaps 400 pounds.
Fred is an Atlantic Giant, and he’s one of a kind on his vine. But he’s in good company among the extra-long, oddly shaped, bumpy and glossy and gleaming vegetables featured this year at the annual open house at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station.