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 ...

On a Halloween pumpkin, warts and bumps have a certain spooky charm. But some unwanted bacteria-caused blemishes open the door to infections that rot and ruin this bright, seasonal fruit. Lydia Tymon, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enormous warty pumpkins. Carnivorous plants. Immersive arachnid displays. Slithering snakes and fluttering bats. And illuminated displays of hundreds, or thousands, of ornately carved jack-o’-lanterns ...

Fall festivities are sure to include pumpkins, and with hoards of genetically engineered pumpkins and their fruit-family kin, gourds, popping up at farmers' markets across the country, there's lots to ...

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 ...