PETER, Peter Pumpkin Eater will be entered in the best-dressed category at Murmungee’s Giant Pumpkin Competition and Harvest Festival on Saturday.
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Royce Sample reckons his creation is a “bit of an inside joke” stemming from last year’s event, when people dressed up their vegetables for the prettiest pumpkin competition.
“People misinterpreted what we meant by the prettiest and so we had a deluge of decorated pumpkins,” he said.
“We were actually interested in the varieties and colours of the pumpkin family.”
It has been renamed best-dressed this year, and there’s also a new competition — best pumpkin pie.
Mr Sample said his inspiration had come from Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who created portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, plants and fruits.
The festival’s largest pumpkin weighed 112 kilograms in 2013, the first year of the event.
Last year’s event attracted 25 entries in the giant pumpkin category, and 14 participated in the prettiest pumpkin.
All proceeds raised by the festival go back into the community.
It starts at 10am at the Bowmans-Murmungee Hall.
Apart from the great vegies, there will be food stalls, plants, crafts and plenty of fun activities for the children.