Autumn's signs are all around us. The squash displays are out in force, and our thoughts turn to annual tributes to bounty and largesse - such as giant-pumpkin contests. However there still are big ...
A few weeks ago, I came home with probably the biggest watermelon I’ve ever purchased. I got to the farmers market later than usual, so the smaller melons were gone, and from there I lugged away the ...
IN this dusty field filled with experimental watermelons off Highway 174, there is but one sound that matters. It’s a deep, soft pop, like a cork slipping free from a wine bottle. You hear it when a ...
LAKELAND — Under a mossy live oak on farmer Will Crum's farm, chef Greg Baker thumped a watermelon. They both listened — a low tone, a little hollow-sounding. "Can I get a little more reverb?" Baker ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Frank Mudd, 73, admits he has a problem. "It is an addiction. You can't hardly help it. It's worse than dope," he says with a laugh. He loves growing giant watermelons. "That ...
Todd Dawson says he has strange interests and an incredible wife. “She is perfect,” said Dawson, who holds the North Carolina record for growing the state’s biggest watermelon and is the current world ...
Culpeper gardener Paul Jarosh’s 103-pound butternut squash smashed a world record at the recent State Fair of Virginia giant vegetable competition. The squash weighs almost 40 pounds more than the ...
It pains Hank Houston to cut open his prized giant watermelons. They’re his babies. “I didn’t even want to cut last year’s one open, I ain’t gonna kid you,” the watermelon grower from Spotsylvania ...
The winner of this year’s State Fair of Virginia giant pumpkin competition broke his own record. Last year Ricky Atkins of Southampton County took home a blue ribbon for a pumpkin weighing 879.5 ...
A few weeks ago, I came home with probably the biggest watermelon I’ve ever purchased. I got to the farmers market later than usual, so the smaller melons were gone, and from there I lugged away the ...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Under a mossy live oak on farmer Will Crum’s farm, chef Greg Baker thumped a watermelon. They both listened - a low tone, a little hollow-sounding. “Can I get a little more ...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Under a mossy live oak on farmer Will Crum’s farm, chef Greg Baker thumped a watermelon. They both listened — a low tone, a little hollow-sounding. “Can I get a little more ...
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