Travis Gienger of Minnesota offers 5 tips this spring for growing giant 500-pound backyard pumpkins by fall. Gienger grew the largest pumpkin ever recorded, a 2,749-pound goliath, in 2023.
Travis Gienger is the Michael Jordan of giant pumpkins: the greatest of all time. The stone craftsman, horticulture teacher and gourd whisperer from Anoka, Minnesota set the world record last year by growing a 2,749-pound pumpkin. The orange colossus was boldly named Michael Jordan in the spring, in honor of the basketball player widely considered the GOAT .
It measured 21 feet, 1 inch in circumference. 'Giant pumpkins make everyone smile,' Gienger said in a phone conversation with Fox News Digital. Michael Jordan's unprecedented size is just one of seven Guinness World Records for pumpkin proliferation held by the hall-of-fame harvester. He was raised in a pumpkin-growing family and has mastered the skills needed to produce epic fruit. 'Giant pumpkins make everyone smile.' But he only raises them in his spare time.
The ideal variety is called Dill’s Atlantic giant, or simply Atlantic giant, he said. Champion growers typically harvest the seeds from their biggest pumpkins and sell them the following year. Gienger shipped Michael Jordan's seeds as far away as Australia. 2. Plant indoors in April, or before the last frost April is the perfect time to plant your future fantastic fruit. In northern climates, this ideal time comes soon after the last expected frost.
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