Morton, Illinois, a sleepy hollow outside Peoria, calls itself the ‘Pumpkin Capital of the World’ and has the patches to ...

A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top prize four years in a row.

“Chicago Warted Hubbard,” he pronounces, holding a knotted black gourd that looks like it was blown out of a volcano into a dumpster. Ackerman and his crew pick around 30,000 gourds by hand ...

[1] For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making music. In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories of instruments and produce some of the most essential sounds in a ...

Perfectly plump in every way! Can you say squash goals? Say hollow to my little friends. Got gourds? Pumped for pumpkins! Grateful for glorious gourds.

10,000 pumpkins and gourds were used to create the “Beetlejuice” character. Facebook/Sunnyfields Farm “Our display this year is very much linked to the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film ...

LAST YEAR: Minnesota man breaks world record with 2,749-pound gourd, wins 3rd Half Moon Bay pumpkin weigh-off "You're almost like expected to do it and what people don't realize is look ...

THE GIANT PUMPKIN WEIGH IN GROWERS FROM ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND COMPETE FOR GINORMOUS GOURD BRAGGING RIGHTS AND A HEFTY CASH PRIZE. AND GET THIS THAT’S THE THIRD PLACE WINNER. TOM KEENAN GREW HIS ...

The partners take only December off in growing four pumpkins a year at their patch in Sacramento County, where the gourds may put on 60-70 pounds a day. It was easy for Root and Kennedy to tell ...

Contestants in costumes sought to stay afloat while rowing or motoring their enormous gourds. The event capped off this year’s Pumpkinfest, which lasted all weekend and drew thousands to the ...

Max has had lots of help from friends to carve many of the more than 150 pumpkins, squash and gourds he has purchased by the truckload from a pumpkin farm in Waterford. He says he spends around $ ...