The next great leap in the giant pumpkin arms race will be growing the world’s first 3,000-pounder. About 125 giant pumpkin contests are held annually across the U.S., Canada and Europe ...

He called the strain Dill’s Atlantic Giant ... growers are exacting. “Pumpkin seeds, they’re like breeding horses,” Wallace says. “When you finally get that race horse, the genetics ...

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