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 ...

Just in time for Halloween, Wisconsin's heaviest-ever giant pumpkin was recently crowned at a fall festival. The 2,551-pound Atlantic Giant took first prize at the 2024 River Prairie Ginormous ...

Belgium is supposed to specialize in Brussels sprouts, but last autumn a horticulturist there raised a 2,624.6-pound pumpkin, squashing the world record for the heaviest fruit. American growers ...

Want to grow a giant pumpkin? A two-time winner for the heaviest pumpkin at the Roland Pumpkin Fair has tips to grow your ...

Many growers branch out. Wallace's friend Joe Jutras, of Scituate, is a 2007 pumpkin world record holder. Now, he's going for the trifecta: world records for heaviest pumpkin (got it), longest ...

This also brings us the 1,900-lb. pumpkin sitting in a temperature-controlled glass pavilion at a fair 35 miles north of Boston in early October. It’s a beast of a gourd: it looks wider around ...

I got to Werner’s farm in the late afternoon in time to watch him and his son Matt hoist their largest pumpkin—grown from that promising “1421 Stelts” seed—onto a trailer. The knee-high ...

About 1800 people packed into Kalgan’s Bridge Park on April 6 to view and sample the entrants for the heaviest pumpkin, best ...