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The first competition giant pumpkins were grown by William Warnock of Ontario, Canada. His first record was 365 lb (166 kg), measured at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In 1900, Warnock's 400 lb (180 kg) pumpkin was exhibited at the Paris World's Fair, and won a bronze medal. He beat his own record four years later, and began to provide advice ...
The largest pumpkin to date was grown by Bob & Jo Liggett, with their entry from 2023 weighing in at 2,388.5 pounds (1,083.4 kg). It is the current Ohio state record holder. Recent weigh-ins have had multiple entries that go over 1,000 pounds (450 kg). Every year, Lindsey's Bakery creates the "world's largest" pumpkin pie. Visitors can be in ...
Columbus Day Monday is the Safeway World Champion Pumpkin Weigh-in contest. The Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival is a two-day event held the following Saturday and Sunday, from 1971 to 2019, and since 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the festival to be canceled in 2020; the 50th was deferred to 2021. [1]
Pumpkins just keep getting bigger and bigger each year, and scientists and farmers don't even know how large they can get. You're not imagining it. Pumpkins just keep getting bigger and bigger ...
A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis ...
1068 Wallace (845 Bobier x 898 Knauss [1]) was an Atlantic Giant pumpkin grown by Ron Wallace in Rhode Island, United States during 2003. [2] The fruit's progeny includes dozens of other pumpkins over 1,000 pounds, including the 1502 Wallace in 2006, [1] at the time the heaviest pumpkin in the world. [3]
Eric Jones – Heaviest jack-o’-lantern, (2,749 pounds); and largest circumference, (21’1”) Sculptor Eric Jones of West Clarksville, NY has a passion for pumpkin carving, and it led him to ...
The world's largest pumpkin pie was made in New Bremen, Ohio, at the New Bremen Pumpkinfest on September 25, 2010. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The pie consisted of 1,212 pounds (550 kilograms) of canned pumpkin, 109 US gallons (410 litres) of evaporated milk, 2,796 eggs, 7 lb (3.2 kg) of salt, 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb (6.6 kg) of cinnamon, and 525 lb (238 kg) of ...