Fruit & Veg Astronomy.

[Suzy]

I love this analagy!
Great for kids too!

When I go food shopping next I don't think I'll be looking at fruit & veg the same way again, too busy doing the comparison of the watermelon to the peppercorn etc.

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

So one of those special pumpkins at the agricultural shows doesn't cut it as the sun?

[Suzy]

It would need to hold 1000 cherry tomatoes

EDIT: 1,000,000 !!! egad!

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Suzy

It would need to hold 1000 cherry tomatoes

or even a million.

[gary]

Good one Suzy!

But I couldn't help but think of this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5gqILMUfaU

[Suzy]

Originally Posted by RB

or even a million.

doh, I mis-read that - good spotting!
Edited to suit.

Let's see.. about 20 little cherry ones per punnet divided by 1000000 = 50,000 punnets of cherry tomatoes.

Find me a farmer that grow a Pumpkin that big! I think the sun would need to be the fridge that all the food goes into to.

[Ric]

Hi Suzy

I just got some seeds for the "Atlantic giant" pumpkin, I'm going to have a go at one for the Collector Pumpkin festival.

They are supposed to grow to around 300kg.

I don't what I'll do with afterwards, maybe 10,000 pumpkin scones.