What to Know
- Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off
- Irvine Park Railroad
- Irvine Regional Park in Orange
- Saturday, Sept. 19
- 9 a.m.; growers need to arrive with their pumpkins by 7:30 a.m.
- $5 to park on weekend days
- Pre-register your pumpkin by Sept. 12; details are available on the site
Recent drenchings are prompting plants to powerfully pop in yards across Southern California.
Truly, rain-soaked flowers, shrubs, and grasses are growing before our eyes as moister days run like a proverbial river through our region, at least poetically.
But nothing in your yard, or any yard, may be as large as the incredible specimens that will roll into Irvine Park Railroad for the Great Pumpkin Weigh-off on Saturday, Sept. 19…