You conceive you know what a big pumpkin looks like ? You do n’t know what a big pumpkin looks like .
The record for America ’s largest pumpkin ever grown was intermit over the weekend by this monster squash , weighing in at 2,145 pounds . It was grow by pumpkin James Leonard Farmer Gene McMullen andsubmitted to Wisconsin ’s yearly Cedarburg Festivalfor their giant pumpkin contest , a contest it ( of course ) handily won .
The goal of giant veg growers has always been to shatter disc . But in the last 15 year or so , something weird has happened : They ’ve gotten improbably adept at it .
size are no longer jumping by just a few dozen pound here and there , they’redoubling in size of it in just over a decadeas James Leonard Farmer are dipping deeper and deeply into young slipway to stretch the limits of just how big they can really get . McMullen ’s pumpkin — and the other Vegetables of Unusual Size with which it keeps society — look cool , yes , but they also indicate out just how quickly farming techs have been changing and keep changing .
In other words , yes , that ’s one big pumpkin . But it ’s nothing compared to whatever is come next .
picture viaCedarburg Festival .
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