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a muddy outdoor showroom where giant gourds audition for porch stardom and pie
means A field or plot where pumpkins are grown, especially one opened to the public to wander and pick their own come autumn.
from A plain compound of two old words. 'Pumpkin' took a winding road: from Greek 'pepon' (a melon, literally 'ripened by the sun'), through Latin and into French as 'pompon,' then English 'pumpion,' which Americans softened to 'pumpkin' — the diminutive '-kin' ending, borrowed from Dutch, lends a homely smallness ironic for so large a fruit. 'Patch,' meaning a small piece of ground, comes from Middle English 'pacche,' a word for a scrap or mended spot of cloth that stretched to mean any little plot of land.
- world record
- Heaviest pumpkin topped 2,700 pounds in 2023
- botanically
- Pumpkins are technically fruits, even berries
- hidden roots
- A single vine can sprawl over 25 feet
- native genius
- Domesticated in the Americas over 7,000 years ago
- thirsty crop
- Each pumpkin is roughly 90 percent water
circleville pumpkin show — ohio festival since 1903 with 400+ tons of pumpkins and pumpkin-themed foods
roger's pumpkin patch — half moon bay, california farm that grows the world's heaviest pumpkins, record 2,624 lbs in 2023
howden pumpkin fields — morton, illinois produces the majority of canned pumpkin for the us market