Farming towns across the country host annual giant pumpkin weigh-off competitions, inspiring growers to invest their time and money into feeding massive gourds. About 125 giant pumpkin contests ...

Electric fans purred around the clock to prevent rot in the well-irrigated pumpkin patch. Depending on the time of day, Travis draped — and undraped — his largest pumpkin with a quilt.

So for 180 days — the length of time it takes him to raise a giant pumpkin — Gienger did not place “Maverick,” his latest squash, on a scale. That time came Monday as Gienger stood on a ...

The heaviest pumpkin on record in the U.S. — and the world — was grown in Minnesota last year and weighed 2,749 lbs. Grown by Travis Gienger out of Anoka, it also has the third-largest pumpkin ...

One is an NBA legend. The other is a pumpkin. In 2023, the 2,749-pound Goliath set the world record for heaviest pumpkin. Michael Jordan weighed as much as a small car and was even more massive ...

Grown by Travis Gienger out of Anoka, he also has the third-largest pumpkin on record in the U.S. with a 2,560 lb pumpkin that he grew in 2022. Here’s how the rest of the country’s pumpkins ha ...

CAR SHOW WAS BY INVITATION ONLY, AND THE WINNER OF THE BIGGEST PUMPKIN WAS CROWNED YESTERDAY MORNING IN FRONT OF THE AG BUILDING. DAVE DAVIS FROM BLOOMFIELD DID TAKE HOME THE PRIZE. HIS PUMPKIN ...

Pumpkin growers, families and community members descended on Christianson’s Nursery for the Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival. Parents told their kids “those are real pumpkins!” ...

He said he abandoned the hobby until the mid-’90s, when he read and clipped out a Newsday article about growing giant pumpkins. His first attempt yielded a “softball-sized” pumpkin ...

Gary Kristensen of Happy Valley paddled nearly 46 miles in a giant pumpkin along the Columbia River earlier this month. “I was hoping to paddle at least a little over 39 miles,” he said.

Jay Yohe is president of the Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Association (PGPA), a group of more than 100 members who are passionate about pushing pumpkin plants to the extreme. Though the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — It’s pumpkin patch season. But in honor of National Pumpkin day, News 2 asks: just how big have pumpkins gotten in the state of Tennessee? Fortunately, the Indiana ...