Each month in Garden Talk, you’ll meet a different master gardener or expert plant person from western Massachusetts, learn about their gardening lives, and get advice on everything from pumpkins to ...

Last month, the Guinness World Record for the largest pumpkin ever documented was broken by two brothers from Hampshire, England, who grew a pumpkin weighing 2,819 pounds and four ounces (heavier than ...

The fall and pumpkins are synonymous, but that wasn’t always the case. The jack-o’-lantern tradition began in Ireland and Scotland with turnips. At the time, pumpkins weren’t present in the area, and ...