(AP) — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms).

he's been growing gargantuan gourds in his south-facing backyard. These aren't your everyday pumpkins — Pelletier's weigh hundreds of kilograms. This year, the competitive giant pumpkin ...

Most competitive giant pumpkin growers aren't taking summer ... world records for heaviest pumpkin (got it), longest long gourd (got that one too) and heaviest squash (still working on it after ...

A horticulture teacher from Minnesota spent six months growing the mammoth gourd. Approximately 80 firefighters responded to a blaze in a luxury Manhattan apartment building. A week after losing ...

Despite the background sign which reads “sub rolls” and “sandwiches”, however, the giant gourd was never destined to end up in anybody’s bowl of soup. Instead, it was headed to a nearby ...

This isn’t Cinderella’s magical pumpkin carriage, but these giant gourds are the star of the show at the Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival. Organizer Jenna Brinkman calls it “the grower’s ...

He hopes to win a prize with his giant gourd, which became "an obsession". But whatever happens it will be a one-way trip for his potential prized pumpkin as he is emigrating to New Zealand.