WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — 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 ...

Growing your own pumpkins brings the joy of fall to your backyard and rewards you with food and decorations. Pumpkins thrive when planted in sunny, well-drained soil with plenty of space, nutrients, ...

Person's hands covered in messy seeds from pumpkin - Ahphotoswpg/Getty Images We tend to value things that have passed the test of time and served their function well for centuries. A versatile ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Is there anything more idyllic during fall than spotting a field full of orange pumpkins? Or seeing a ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- 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 ...

Last month, the Guinness World Record for the largest pumpkin ever documented was broken by two brothers from Hampshire, England, who grew a pumpkin weighing 2,819 pounds and four ounces (heavier than ...

The fall and pumpkins are synonymous, but that wasn’t always the case. The jack-o’-lantern tradition began in Ireland and Scotland with turnips. At the time, pumpkins weren’t present in the area, and ...

Bright orange, plump and jolly, who doesn’t love pumpkins? Perhaps nothing says fall better than a few pumpkins displayed by the front door or the aroma of a pumpkin pie, and certainly nothing says ...

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 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Remember Dave, the Giant Pumpkin Guy in the Summit City? After featuring his massive pumpkins grown right in his backyard last year, we followed up with him to learn how the ...