His pumpkin weighed 2,365.5 pounds – smashing the previous record by more than 200 pounds. At the peak of the season, he said it was growing 58 pounds every single day. Lopresti said he plans to ...
Fall in North Carolina brings cooler weather, colorful leaves and pumpkin-filled festivities. Whether you’re looking to grow your own pumpkins, visit a pumpkin patch or join in fall-themed ...
“Once you’ve grown a big pumpkin, even if it fails, the following year you have to do it again. “We were 13 when we started. We used to grow for a local show, then we eventually got a UK ...
An inmate crew led by Gary Mayfield, who started the detention center’s garden in 2015, spent some of the summer and early fall growing pumpkins and mums that volunteers with Faithful Friends ...
Nowadays, the U.S. alone produces 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins each year, with most coming ripe in October! If we choose to plant our own, we get to enjoy a selection of over 45 different ...
Last Sunday, an entourage of giant pumpkins and their growers rolled into the town of Ludwigsburg, Germany. Part of the world’s largest pumpkin festival, they were there for the annual weigh ...
Seth Bender and Elizabeth Yahner of Altoona choose a pumpkin at JB Tree Farm west of Alexandria. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski A dry growing season made for mixed results in the pumpkin crop ...
Belgium’s Mario Vangeel was crowned champion on 13 October, with a colossal pumpkin weighing in at 1,152kg - around the same as a small car. No newcomer to the art of growing giant pumpkins, Mario was ...