A pumpkin weighing just under 2,400 pounds has made Anoka County grower Travis Gienger a champion in California for the fifth time in seven years.
The pumpkin, named Rocky, competed against 50 other growers from around the world at the Half Moon Bay festival. Its weight is about the same as an adult polar bear or a full-grown American bison.
Gienger began growing Rocky in April. He spent the summer weeding, trimming, fertilizing and feeding it sugar water…