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 ...

Ian (left) and Stuart Paton pose with a giant pumpkin in their nursery in the New Forest, Hampshire. The pumpkin’s name was Muggle and it weighed as much as a bull moose. At 2,819 pounds and over 21 ...

"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 ...

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 ...