Sep. 28—Weighing in at 215 pounds, a bushel gourd grown by Keys High School student Tucker Friend recently beat the state record at the Oklahoma Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh-off event. With a ...

Pelletier has plans to turn his bushel gourd into a drum for Winter Harp, the medieval Christmas music ensemble he tours with as a flutist. Some of the other gourds will become pig slop.

2. Basket Gourd Sometimes called bushel basket gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), it's the monster of gourds. If you trim your vine to a single fruit, it may get larger than a bushel basket!

"Six more days of growing and I might have broken the world record." Connolly’s giant bushel gourd is currently on display for residents to view at Ward’s Berry Farm, 614 South Main St., Sharon.

The State Fair’s largest long gourd weighed 72.5 pounds and was grown by Orndorff, the giant pumpkin winner. The giant tomato weighed in at 1 pound, 4.7 ounces and was grown by Bruce Lynch of ...

A Sharon man said he broke a Guinness World Record after his 30-year-long passion project of growing giant pumpkins paid off with a 470.5-pound bushel gourd.

Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man said a prize item from his garden could be headed for the Guinness Book of World Records after he grew a 470.5-pound bushel gourd. Steve Connolly, who has been ...