He recently won the National Pumpkin Weigh Off in California by growing a nearly 2,500-pound pumpkin. Gourd grower Gary Kristensen has competed in the regatta since 2013.

Leaders in the field: Inside the world of competitive giant pumpkin growing. For most people, pumpkins are a once-a-year, seasonal decoration. Mike Bedigan talks to those for whom growing them is ...

The winning pumpkin was around 300 pounds, which seemed “miraculous” at the time, Brinkman said.“With a $7,000 grand prize, the giant pumpkin weigh-off is now super competitive,” Brinkman ...

Giant pumpkins break records, confound scientists and growers It will take a pumpkin weighing at least 1 ton to challenge the 2,032-pound goliath seen last year at a contest in Napa, Calif. If ...

That dedication paid off last year when Kennedy and his growing partner Ron Root set a California record with a 2,497-pound behemoth at the Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off ...

The pumpkin was growing all summer long and needed about 75 gallons of water a day, growing at a rate of 50 pounds a day, he said. "I only had one," said Kogut, whose initial goal was to grow an ...

Volunteers inspect Lancaster resident Charlie Bernstrom’s prize pumpkin as it is lifted to the scale for weighing at the St. Croix Growers Association Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Stillwater’s ...

Growing a giant pumpkin, after all, is not easy, Armstrong said. It requires the right seeds (he grows the Atlantic Giant variety), plenty of water and strategies such as his practice of wiping ...

you know there’s a community of giant pumpkin growers, particularly here in the northeast. they grow these big giant pumpkins. and then at the end of the season, there will be 700 seeds in there.

The giant pumpkin growers of Newfoundland are harder to find. The soil's rockier, the wind more intense, but Leslee Lake of Clarenville says growing giant pumpkins on the Rock is not as hard as ...

But, since giant pumpkin growing is a sport, he said, they might hold back their deepest growing secrets. As Ford puts it, "I like to say I have 'pumpkin friends' 11 months out of the year, then ...

CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – The annual Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers patch tour is this weekend where members can learn the secrets of growing large pumpkins and gardening in general.