October might seem to be pumpkin month in the U.S. The holiday of Halloween comes on October 31. Americans around the country are already using social media to show off their pumpkin growing and carving skills. Pumpkins are round, orange fruits related to squashes and gourds. People use their flesh and seeds for food, but they are also popular decorations in the fall. In the weeks before Halloween, people like to carve faces and other decorations into pumpkins. Halloween is a popular holiday where American children dress in costumes and go from home to home asking for candy. It is called “Trick-or-Treating.” Two big pumpkins recently made headlines in the U.S. A farmer in the northeastern state of Rhode Island broke the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in North America. Richard Wallace’s pumpkin weighed 1,026 kilograms.