We are moving to central Pennsylvania in early summer this year.  It will be the first time we have had a garden in several years.  Initially, I was thinking it would be neat to grow pumpkins for the kids to make jack o'lanterns out of.  While browsing seed packets at the store, I found seeds for giant pumpkins.  That got me started thinking: "What if we were to try to grow a giant pumpkin?"  I started reading and researching.  I quickly discovered that Dill's Atlantic Giant Pumpkin seeds were the ones that world record pumpkins usually were grown from.  So much for the seeds from the local store.  I ordered some of what I thought were the right seeds from Amazon, only to find that these were for 100 pound pumpkins.  The world record in 2012 was over 2000 pounds, so a 100 pound pumpkin would not do.  I then ordered seeds from Dill's for 500-700 pound pumpkins, as I was not sure if we would have enough garden space.  As I kept researching, the obsession became stronger.  If we are going to try for a big pumpkin, why not go all in?  Plus, it turns out we will have enough space in the garden.  So, I made 1 final order from Dill's.  This time, I ordered 2 seeds from their 2012-2013 Premium Seed List, Super Heavy Weights. Both were 1456 Bryson '12 seeds.  (Pumpkin seeds are named by the weight of the pumpkin they came from in pounds, the last name of the grower, and the year the seeds came from.  So, our seeds were from a pumpkin that was 1456 pounds, and grown by Mr. Bryson in 2012).