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, ...

Giant pumpkins continuously break records. More than 50 years ago, the winning pumpkin from the Half Moon Bay Championship weighed 132 pounds. Since the competition began in 1974, pumpkins have ...

Like all giant pumpkins, its flesh was warped by all that mass—sort of like Jabba the Hutt with a spray tan. It is hard to imagine how a pumpkin could get any bigger.

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.

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.

He said the giant pumpkin’s next stop will be in Southern California, where a team of professional carvers will do a 3D carve on it at a Halloween event. Gienger has quite a winning streak.

Dale Marshall of Anchorage reacts to his Atlantic Giant pumpkin coming in at 2,035 pounds during the weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Monday, August 26, 2024.

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 ...

Huge pumpkins, cucumbers and parsnips were on display ahead of a giant vegetables competition in Worcestershire, with one horticulturist calling the growing of them a “strange sport”. The ...

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 ...