OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — They are members of a small segment of Oklahoma farmers and gardeners competing for size alone: the longest squash, the fattest gourds, and the heaviest pumpkins.

It's a big 'un weighing 411 pounds. “Everyone loves the pumpkin. That's the first thing they come to see. Which is, where is the largest pumpkin? In previous years we've had them from 600-700 ...

(AP) -- Seeds from a Nova Scotia grower and a steady diet of bone meal, egg shells, ripe bananas and fresh cow manure added up to a blue ribbon for ... an Atlantic Giant pumpkin, into the back ...

To grow a giant pumpkin, competitors experiment with various methods to plump up their fruits. But a prize-winning pumpkin comes down to genetics, like any winning show dog or blue-ribbon cattle at ...

DASSEL, Minn. — Through the drought and a dry summer, Darrin Asplin’s 814.5-pound pumpkin finished first place at the Minnesota State Fair this year. But the Dassel man had to endure his own ...

Growing a record pumpkin isn’t for everyone ... “I really wanted the state fair first-place ribbon.” What he got was a record. “It was awesome. It was unbelievable. I just went kind ...

was grown by Mark Peacock and scored a blue ribbon at the Royal Easter Show. The pumpkin, the largest to win an award at any Australian show this year, captured the imagination of Peacock's friend ...

THIS PRODUCE TIPPING THE SCALES THIS AFTERNOON AT THE STATE FAIR TO TAKE HOME BLUE RIBBONS. WOW. DWIGHT STONE FROM FLOYD COUNTY TAKES HOME FIRST PLACE AMONG THE LARGEST PUMPKIN WITH THIS MONSTER ...

Ten-year-old Christian Covey of Stony Creek was the only youth to enter the Giant Pumpkin competition ... After Christian was awarded his rosette ribbon, he made a speech about how he grew his giant ...

Richard Bottorf has been watching his prize pumpkin closely all summer. “It’s an experience,” he smiles. He lives in Republic, Missouri, but when his largest produce stopped growing he ...