A Cheyenne couple broke Wyoming's pumpkin record for the fourth year in a row
Andy and Amy Corbin's 2,224-pound pumpkin set a new Wyoming record and put them in the 2,200 Pound Club, a mark fewer than 50 growers have reached. It grew in a patch thick with dandelions.
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Andy and Amy Corbin of Cheyenne grew a pumpkin that weighed 2,224 pounds, a new Wyoming record and their fourth state record in a row. Cowboy State Daily reported on Oct. 12 that the weight also put them in the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth's 2,200 Pound Club. Fewer than 50 growers have ever reached that mark.
The pumpkin did not come out of a tidy patch. It grew among dandelions so thick that pulling them would have torn roots tangled with the vine. The Corbins plan to show it at a church trunk-or-treat in Cheyenne before it becomes compost for a later season. A record on the scale is the news. What they plant next year is still open.
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