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Pumpkin Growing

Squashed Already: NY Farmer's Days-Old Pumpkin All-Time Record Broken (Barely!) Squashed Already: NY Farmer's Days-Old Pumpkin All-Time Record Broken (Barely!)
Squashed Already: NY Farmer's Days-Old Pumpkin All-Time Record Broken (Barely!) Well, that didn’t last long. Just one week after a farmer in upstate New York set the record for the heaviest pumpkin ever grown in North America, that record has already been squashed by a grower in Minnesota. The massive 2,560-pound gourd was unveiled in California on Monday, Oct. 10, at the 49th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco. Earlier Report: Good Gourd: NY Farmer Breaks Record For Heaviest Pumpkin In North America Grown by Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota, it just barely beat out the previous pumpkin king, Scott Andrusz, of Willia…