So You Want to Grow the World’s Biggest Pumpkin
Driving south from Los Angeles on the I-5 in a smoggy sea of red brake lights on behemoth cement interchanges, a line of orange signs running alongside Citadel Mall caught my eye: “World’s Largest Pumpkin.” Intrigued by this hyperbolic, almost certainly fabricated claim, I pulled into the parking lot and set off toward…