Is it your dream to grow a pumpkin so big you could crawl inside of it? Then I have good news for you: your dream is completely attainable.
All it takes is a dedicated space, the right nutrients, and lots of sunshine.
And if you’ve heard of gardeners feeding milk to their pumpkin in order to make it grow to enormous proportions – stay tuned to find out whether this method works or not.
Be forewarned that the giant pumpkin growing industry is fiercely competitive, thanks in part to the potential a giant beast of a gourd has to rake in lots of cash.
Case in point: a single seed produced by a giant pumpkin can sell for more than $1,000.
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Yeah, it’s that lucrative, folks, and the giant squash-growing profession is popular around the world.
In 2020, the current world record-holder for the largest, heaviest pumpkin of all is Matthias Willemijns of Belgium, who in 2016 grew a 2,624.6-pound beast.
In 2018, Steve Geddes of New Hampshire grew a 2,528-pound monstrosity that won him a prize of $6,000. His squash currently holds the United States record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in recorded American history.
At the 2019 Alaska State Fair, I got to see a real giant pumpkin for the first time, and I must admit I was expecting something beautiful. Something like Cinderella’s magic pumpkin that turned into a carriage.
The slumped, corpulent behemoth my son and I beheld that day was anything but pretty.
But what it lacked in beauty it made up for in sheer wondrousness. I mean, how often does a person get to see a pumpkin big enough to live inside?
That day at the fair, I imagined digging a hole in the
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