Courtney Smith, 25, and sister Jordan Smith, 22 look at warty pumpkins at the Union Square Greenmarket.Helayne Seidman Orange is the new blecch. Warty pumpkins, ugly gourds and carbuncle-covered ...

Pumpkins and gourds covered in warts are popping up in pumpkin-picking patches and farmers stands across the country this fall. What's the story behind these peculiar pumpkins? No, it's not a ...

What does a pumpkin have in common with a zonkey? It turns out: quite a lot. Hence, in the case of warty pumpkins — a popular novelty gourd often sold this time of year — being covered in warts isn’t ...

After decades of trying to grow perfect, round, orange pumpkins, farmers have found many people believe nothing says Halloween like a warty, twisted gourd in a weird color. “Anything that’s ugly or ...

Though the Sun Gold Farm booth at the Beaverton Farmers Market overflows with a wide range of produce nearly year-round, in October, the spacious tent is overrun with squash of all shapes, colors and ...

White. Pink. Green. Blue. Buff. Tan. Squat. Long. Even warty. A trip to a local farm or market this time of year turns up a rainbow of colors and even more patterns and shapes on seasonal pumpkins and ...

This isn’t your mother’s pumpkin. Across Massachusetts, piles of light blue, pale green, peach and warted pumpkins are selling fast at farms, supermarkets and garden stores. On suburban home stoops ...

Pumpkin village returns to a Staffordshire farm bringing its largest variety of ornamental pickable pumpkin patches yet. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

Toothy grin, triangle eyes, lighted candle. Meh. Sometime between the first pumpkin face, carved by the first mischievous child, and the 20 millionth Halloween pop-up store, the whole jack-o-lantern ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pumpkins lure us with both mystery and a childlike anticipation of fun. Wreathed in folklore or encrusted in flaky pastry, this vegetable defines the ...

There's nothing as quintessential during the fall as displaying the humble pumpkin on your porch. Fun fact: Pumpkins first became eye candy all the way back in the mid-1800s. "People started moving to ...