Giant pumpkins are part genetics. Growers often buy from seed auctions where winning pumpkins from previous years supply the stock. The giant vegetables are also hard work.

A decade ago, the world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. Now the 3,000-pound mark is within sight.

This year's giant pumpkin is colossal, but the world's largest pumpkin record was set at last year's 2023 Half Moon Bay World Championship Weigh-Off.

How to grow a 2,000-pound pumpkin, according to Charlie Lopresti The local TV meteorologist took home the top prize and the state record at the 2024 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest.

Jim Ford's record-setting Atlantic Giant pumpkin won the 2024 River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival weigh-off in Altoona on Sept. 28.

Look up, and you’ll notice big orange pumpkins suspended between the glossy green leaves. Seattle resident Greg Shaw has grown giant pumpkins nearly every year since 1980.

Jim Ford's record-setting Atlantic Giant pumpkin won the 2024 River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival weigh-off in Altoona on Sept. 28.

The former plant nursery employee described carefully managing the growing process, from measuring the nutrients present in the soil, to researching the genetics of the Atlantic giant pumpkin seed ...

Growing a giant pumpkin takes a giant time commitment. Why do growers put in so much effort for something that’s vulnerable to the elements and isn’t good for baking?

Theresa Miller of Stillman Valley now holds the record for the largest pumpkin grown by a woman in the state of Illinois.

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 clocked in at ...