Japan's biggest pumpkin weighs 410.3 kg, grown with Mozart music

A 410.3-kilogram pumpkin grown with music and brought by farmer Hiroyoshi Utsunomiya from Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, won a contest Sunday as Japan's biggest pumpkin.It was the second victory for Utsunomiya, 68, who said he had grown the pumpkin with music of Mozart playing in the background.Referring also to his first win in 2018 with a 412.6 kg pumpkin he said he had grown with traditional "enka" Japanese ballad titles, he said, "It shows that what I've been doing is not wrong."Among 51 participants from nine prefectures, a 385.0-kg pumpkin grown by Akira Nishikawa from Chiba Prefect…READ FULL ARTICLE