Good morning on this toasty Tuesday.

It’s the first full week of fall. Cue the pumpkins.

For some New Yorkers, pumpkin growing is a competitive sport.

Pumpkin enthusiasts across the world compete in “weigh-off” contests, where the heaviest pumpkins earn their growers thousands of dollars in prize money. New York hosts about a half-dozen of these competitions every fall, said Andy Wolf, the president of the New York State Giant Pumpkin Growers Association.

At a contest last weekend in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the winning pumpkin was a whopping 1,742 pounds. (For comparison, the heaviest pumpkin in the world, grown by Mathias Willemijns of Belgium, is 2,624.6 pounds.)

Want to get a feel for how colossal these pumpkins can be? On Sunday, you can visit Clarence, N.Y., on the outskirts of Buffalo, for the annual World Pumpkin Weigh-Off at the Great Pumpkin Farm. There is also a giant pumpkin contest at Hicks Nurseries on Long Island.