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

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, ...

Tending to a giant pumpkin is a lot of work, a fact that Todd Kogut experienced first-hand when he grew a "monster" pumpkin for the first time this year.

The average giant pumpkin weighs around 1,000 pounds, though the world record currently stands at 2,749 pounds – slightly heavier than a Honda Fit.

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.

Gardeners compete with giant tomatoes, watermelons and squash, but nothing compares to the spectacle of the giant pumpkins. In 1979, a Canadian grower named Howard Dill, known as the “Pumpkin ...

Howard Dill, a Canadian pumpkin grower known as “the father of giant pumpkin growing,” patented the modern Atlantic Giant variety in 1979. He set a 1980 world record with a 459-pound pumpkin.

What have these giant pumpkins taught you over the years? "That life isn't perfect. You are doing very good if you're succeeding with 50% of your efforts out there in the garden.

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 pumpkin reportedly smashed the previous state record by about 244 pounds. Lopresti, a local meteorologist at WGME, has been growing giant pumpkins for years.

It’s their first time in Saratoga, but the giant pumpkin community’s roots run deep. “It’s great bagels! Yeah, these people have been great—everybody,” said Terry Nelson.