Monster 2,554lb pumpkin breaks US record

Every time she's thirsty you gotta go give her a drink': details of gourd's diet and battles against animals and critters' in top bid

He set out to squash rivals' dreams and he succeeded. Retired commercial farmer Scott Andrusz spent sleepless nights tending to a giant gourd in his field and finally came up with a new US record - a plump pumpkin weighing in at 2,554 pounds.

The latest record holder for heaviest pumpkin grown in the US tended his prize pie filling in upstate New York and pureed the previous record holder, a grower in New Hampshire whose 2,528 monster set the national standard in 2018, but in the end wasn't a patch on Andrusz's.