Each pumpkin vine can grow 20 to 30 feet long with secondary shoots and even tertiary growth, creating a network of vines and fruits that greedily gobble up every square foot of space.

Growing giant pumpkins takes a lot of dedication of space, water and time. This year, that dedication paid off for Mitch Krause of Chanhassen with a 1,217-pound pumpkin, the largest he has ever ...

Not everyone tucks their pumpkins in at night, but then again, not everyone grows them to be more than 1,000 pounds. Larry Hill recently harvested three larger-than-average pumpkins from his ...

Styrian pumpkins are large plants with vines 2.5-3 m long. The fruit weigh an average of 6 kg. The flesh is coarse and stringy, suitable for animal feed. Seed breeders have developed bush varieties ...