World’s heaviest pumpkin will be carved this weekend at the New York Botanical Garden
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Pkwy at Fordham Rd.
October 29-31, free – $6
www.nybg.org
This weekend, expert carver Scott Cully will take his knife to the world’s heaviest pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden. Grown in Wisconsin by Chris Stevens, the gynormous gourd weighs in at 1,810 1/2 pounds. The garden is also currently home to Michigan grower Ken Sweet’s 1,725 pounder and Massachusetts farmer Steve Connolly’s 1,674 1/2 monster. Stevens’s and Sweet’s pumpkins are actually siblings, grown from seeds from the same parent. Also this weekend, the NYBG wraps up its three-week Halloween Hoorah with a slate of activities in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, including ghostly leaf rubbing, creepy crawly critter exploration, apple cider pressing, sensational seed sorting, the pumpkin playhouse, and Halloween parades.