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Several “whopper” pumpkins were grown this year by Ed Friend on the DeBerry Farm north of Oakland (Friend’s in-laws). According to the Maryland Department of Agriculture, the only official record for pumpkins is kept by the Maryland State Fair, and the current record is 713.5 pounds. Friend took his largest pumpkin to Southern States in Oakland to be weighed on that scale, where it topped out at 773 pounds. Official or not, it’s a mighty big pumpkin! Pictured above sitting on some of this year’s crop are Friend’s children Nicholas (left), age 10, and Tailynn, age 6. The “smaller” pumpkin on the left weighs about 722 pounds. Friend noted that the pumpkins were grown from Atlantic Giant seeds, and took “a lot of fertilizer and a lot of water.” They have “matured” just in time for Halloween, of course, which will be celebrated across the county.
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