"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 ...

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 ...

Their crop of choice is the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin, a freak of nature and intensive breeding that is raised by thousands of growers around the world. During peak growing season, the pumpkin can bulk ...

Every fall, pumpkin growers haul their record-breaking giants onto scales, with some pumpkins weighing more than 2,700 pounds (1,225 kilograms). Yet the world's largest apple barely reaches 4 pounds ...

The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. He's been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at night to keep it at a stable ...

Henry weighs about 1,200 pounds, an impressive size even for a polar bear. The pumpkin placed in his enclosure weighed roughly 1,481 pounds. The oversized squash was an award-winning Atlantic Giant ...