Worland’s “Pumpkin King” is serious about growing a 2,000-pound pumpkin. He’s pampering them with 500 gallons of water a day, ...

Dill reinvigorated giant-pumpkin competitions in 1978 by breaking a 75-year-old record set in 1903 by William Warnock, whose 403-pound oddity was then displayed at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

The secret to growing giant pumpkins Pumpkins can be 1 pound or 2,000 pounds. But to grow the really big ones, you'll have to learn from the masters ...

Giant pumpkins start out round, but as they start putting on serious weight, around 30 or 40 pounds a day, they flatten out due to the force of gravity pulling down on their massive bodies. Jessica ...

Instead of making a giant jack o’lantern or a massive pie that could feed the whole town, a farmer in Tennessee took his 910-pound pumpkin out for a spin in his pond. It’s been Justin Ownby ...

Fair warning though — giant pumpkins aren’t that good for baking. “Most people do it for the competition,” Westerfield said. “It’s not going to be for making 45 pies.” ...

The giant-pumpkin contest kicks off events on Columbus Day, and they’re capped by the weekend festival, which has put the town on the map. Now going into its 52nd edition, ...

It was another successful pumpkin season for the Brandon, Wisc., farmer who grew a 2,000-pound giant pumpkin last year and took first prize at the River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival in ...

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, he recalled.

Aug. 27—Dale Marshall of Anchorage continued his streak of giant pumpkin-growing supremacy at the Alaska State Fair's weigh-off on Monday in Palmer, taking first place with a pumpkin that ...

The 40 colossal pumpkins were carved, embellished and electrified by many of the area’s most talented artists.