3,156 pounds of pumpkin: Ron Wallace grows the largest fruit in history

In Greene, Rhode Island, Ron Wallace has done what no grower has ever done: raised a pumpkin past 3,000 pounds. His giant weighed in at 3,156 pounds — the first pumpkin ever over the 3,000-pound mark and, by weight, the largest fruit ever grown. Competitive giant-pumpkin growing is a patient art of genetics, soil, water and daily care stretched over a whole season; Wallace's gourd is its Everest, summited. Somewhere in Rhode Island there is a pumpkin that outweighs a small car — and a grower who spent a summer proving it was possible.