Wallace has become the rock star of giant pumpkin-growing. He was the first person in the world to break the 2,000-pound, or 1-ton, barrier when he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin in 2012, and he ...

And the McMansion and the Humvee and the concept of “Texas-sized” too. This also brings us the 1,900-lb. pumpkin sitting in a temperature-controlled glass pavilion at a fair 35 miles north of ...