Great gourd: Bearss Groves welcomes nearly 1,000-pound pumpkin
TAMPA, Fla. - Halloween is just around the corner and pumpkin patches are popping up everywhere. But you've probably never seen a pumpkin this huge.
Bearss Groves in Carrollwood got the special delivery today, all the way from Michigan: A giant gourd that weighs a whopping 989 pounds.
It just may be the biggest pumpkin in Florida.
“It’s my favorite time of year and I just feel like it’s one of those things that I want other people to experience the same thing I did when I was little and I saw this massive pumpkin,” offered Bearss Groves owner Barry Lawrence.
In case you were wondering, the world record for the heaviest pumpkin is 2,624.6 pounds, set in 2016 by a Belgian farmer, according to the experts at Guinness.