Memorialize the queen of freak on a pumpkin this season. As a business major, what better to illuminate with a gourd and a tea candle than your love of LinkedIn? Passersby who see the glowing “in” ...

After a nationwide search for a pumpkin expert, we hired a food scientist from Denver, Colorado, to review Trader Joe's fall lineup.

Photo Provided Members of the Bill Neptune family pose with the 294.5-pound bushel gourd he grew with his granddaughter Jayden this year. Bill is at right, while Jayden is in the center, perched ...

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But there is only one place to see pumpkins in abundance and celebrate the beloved orange gourd – the 52 nd Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct.

“Giant pumpkins are the Iditarod of gardening,” Sperry said Tuesday. “You ride the rail on these things. There’s a fine line between making it and not making it.” Gargantuan gourds are growing off ...

He previously claimed the crown in 2009 and 2010 with giant gourds that weighed 1,503 and 1,479 pounds, respectively. In 2014, he also held the state record with a 2,008-pound pumpkin.

Data was collected by Eurostat and in 2017 about 24,000 hectares were devoted to cultivating pumpkins and other types of gourd. Germany came 3rd in the list of gourd growers, producing 92,000 ...