Ed Weeks (grower)

Ed Weeks set numerous world records for growing large vegetables. In 1964, he founded Weeks Seed Company.[1] He resided in Tarboro, North Carolina.[2]

Records

Records set by Weeks:

  • 1970: 118 lb Watermelon[2]
  • 1975: 197 lb Watermelon[1]
  • 1977: 39 lb Cantaloupe[3]
  • 1978: 3.5 inch long Peanut[1]
gollark: Possibly, depends what it is, I have lots of free time now and can program python a bit.
gollark: I really wonder who goes around *making* these things.
gollark: This is an actual regex in a Markdown parsing thing I'm trying to use:```^(?:(\*(?=[`\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~]))|\*)(?![\*\s])((?:(?:(?!\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)(?:[^\*]|[\\s]\*)|\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)|(?:(?:(?!\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)(?:[^\*]|[\\s]\*)|\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)*?(?<!\)\*){2})*?)(?:(?<![`\s\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])\*(?!\*)|(?<=[`\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])\*(?!\*)(?:(?=[`\s\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~]|$)))|^_([^\s_])_(?!_)|^_([^\s_<][\s\S]*?[^\s_])_(?!_|[^\s,!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])|^_([^\s_<][\s\S]*?[^\s])_(?!_|[^\s,!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])```(it's generated from a slightly less insane one with`punctuation` in place of the big mess of punctuation characters, but *still*)
gollark: You could probably procedurally generate a few of the parameters for it. I can't help much though, I just remembered that these were a thing for drawing curves which existed.
gollark: You might be interested in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve

References
  1. "About Us". Weeks Seed Company. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. Associated Press (25 July 1970). "118 Pound Melon". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 6D. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  3. McWhirter, Norris (1979). Guinness Book of World Records. Bantam Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-0553123708.


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