DE resident grows 1,100-pound pumpkin

Around this time of year,  folks like to head out and go pumpkin picking, but one local from Delaware decided to grow his own.

Brent Sutton , from Greenwood, grew a 1,100 pound pumpkin. He tells 47 ABC growing pumpkins has been a family affair.

“My father and I started doing this for six years ago.The first year we came out with a three hundred pumpkin, then my grandfather got involved and we did it another year and we ended it up getting a five hundred pound pumpkin, then the third year we got a 700 pound pumpkin,” says Sutton.

However, this time around, Brent grew it all on his own. Back in April, Brent tells 47 ABC he planted a few pumpkin seeds in his backyard. He says it took a lot of care, patience, and cooperation from mother nature, and six months later this pumpkin is 13.5 feet in circumference and about 4.5 feet high, but Brent admits it wasn’t easy,  there were a few challenges along the way.

“Different insects, different times of the year, you can’t predict it, you never know know when it’s going to come,” says Sutton.

This Friday,  Brent will be on his way to New Jersey to compete in a pumpkin weigh off, and he has a few words of advice for all the pumpkin growing enthusiasts out there.

“You got to be passionate about this, 6 months of my life everyday, started out it might have been 10 minutes to 3 hours a day out here, pruning, taking care of it, scouting it. If you put the work in you have no ceiling, and anybody can do this.,” says Dutton.