Giant pumpkins can top the scales at more than 2,000 pounds – and caring for these behemoths is often a full-time job. But for some growers in the central U.S., the dream of raising a world ...

"Farmer Mike" Valladao has been carving giant pumpkins for nearly 40 years, starting in 1984 when he saw the world's largest pumpkin at a festival in Half Moon Bay, Calif. He started growing his own ...

Go big or gourd home. That’s the motto Ian and Stuart Paton, 64-year-old twin brothers from Hampshire, England, have lived by for half a century. And this autumn, their lifelong passion finally bore ...

Halloween and pumpkins go hand in hand-a perfect blend of eerie charm and autumn warmth. Whether they're carved into grinning faces, baked into spiced pies, or simply lined up on porches, pumpkins ...

Where just yesterday, a 1,456-pound pumpkin sat on Scott Armstrong’s front lawn, by Thursday night, a man riding his horse-drawn carriage away from a spirit stood instead. Over a two-day period, ...

Beginning in 1979 Dill grew the world’s biggest pumpkin four years in a row, and he landed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1981 for a 493.5-pounder. Today’s growers still use seeds descended ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — An engineer and gardening enthusiast from Santa Rosa won the top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A California engineer and gardening enthusiast won the top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd ...