Twin brothers grow world’s biggest and heaviest pumpkin; breaks two Guinness World Records

Go big or gourd home. That’s the motto Ian and Stuart Paton, 64-year-old twin brothers from Hampshire, England, have lived by for half a century. And this autumn, their lifelong passion finally bore fruit, literally, when they grew the world’s heaviest pumpkin of all time , weighing an astonishing 2,819 pounds and 4 ounces (1,278 kg). The enormous yellow-orange pumpkin, affectionately nicknamed “Muggles” — a nod to the Harry Potter series, didn’t just shatter the Guinness World Record for heaviest pumpkin; it also broke the record for the largest pumpkin by circumference, measuring an extraordinary 21 feet and 3.8 inches (6.49 metres). The Paton brothers, who began growing oversized pumpkins at the age of 13, have been chasing this world record for decades. “We’ve been growing g