Is There A Limit To How Big Vegetables Can Grow?
Fourteen years ago, the world’s largest pumpkin weighed in at 1,140 pounds. That’s an impressively-sized pumpkin, but it doesn’t even come close to sizing up to the newest monster crop of the last decade, the largest of which weighs more than twice that at 2,323 pounds. Writing in the New Yorker, Nicola Twilley takes on…