Pumpkins are really big this year — literally.
Ron Wallace protectively covers one of four giant pumpkins at the pumpkin patch in his garden outside his home in Greene, Rhode Island.APA New Hampshire man won an annual contest at the Rochester Fair last month with a 1,975-pound pumpkin.
The giant gourd took home the top honors, but it didn’t beat out the country’s heaviest-ever pumpkin, which broke a record last year after weighing in at 2,058 pounds.
California native John Hawkley currently holds the US record for heaviest pumpkin — beating out another West Coast farmer who only had the title for a week.
Judges measure the entries prior to the giant pumpkin contest weigh-off at the Rochester Fair in New Hampshire.APComments
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