Eye-popping 1,600-pound pumpkin

The item being referred to? A 1,633-pound Midwest-developed pumpkin that sits in Dan Liggett's front yard.

The pumpkin has been at Liggett's home, 1532 Santa Clara Drive, since Tuesday. Liggett, 41, drove eight hours to Dalton, Ga. — around 40 minutes outside of Chattanooga — and got the gourd from his guardians, who develop huge pumpkins as a leisure activity.

"Many people take pictures as you're driving," he said.

The monster pumpkin is established in custom. Liggett's guardians live in Circleville, Ohio, a city of 13,000 with a yearly pumpkin celebration that pulls in a huge number of individuals.

"The entire town close down for four days," he said.

Liggett's guardians, Bob and Jo, took second place in the current year's pumpkin challenge, bested by a pumpkin that measured 1,666 pounds. The couple has developed pumpkins for over 20 years.

Liggett said his guardians begin the developing procedure in April, depending on manure and claim to fame seeds.

Liggett and his kin alternate showing the biggest gourd from his guardians' product. In the end, he said, his guardians will quit developing the pumpkins, which is one reason he needed it in Dunedin both a year ago and this year.

Jane Morse, a green augmentation specialists with the University of Florida and Pinellas County Extension, affirmed that Liggett's pumpkin is a champion.

"Stunning! That is really wonderful," she said in the wake of listening to the pumpkin's weight. "That is a significant whopper."

Morse said it takes a considerable measure of tolerance to develop huge pumpkins.

"I don't think numerous individuals would even attempt," she said. "It takes some skill."

Also, discarding the pumpkin isn't simple.

The pumpkin sits in his yard, and in the event that he abandons it in Florida's warmth for more than a couple of days, it'll begin to frame mold ins