What to Know
- The Great Pumpkin Weigh-off
- Irvine Park Railroad
- Orange
- Sept. 20
- 9 a.m.
- $5 weekend entry to Irvine Regional Park
- Pumpkin growers will be awarded cash prizes; top prize is $3500
While summer is often dominated, delightfully, by sunflowers, tomatoes, corn, and the other warmth-loving stars of the garden, some people have something else on their mind: Growing gargantuan pumpkins.
Like really hefty specimens, the kind of fantastical fruits that require an oversized scale and a truck with a big bed.
Several of those specimens will roll into Irvine Regional Park in Orange for a rite of pumpkin passage, one that hopes to find some of the jaw-dropping-est gourds around…