Citations:pumpkineer

Noun: "one who grows giant pumpkins, generally for the purpose of entering contests"

 * 1988 — John Spears, "Rival groups weigh in for gold in Nova Scotia pumpkin patch", Toronto Star, 8 October 1988:
 * Last year's winner weighed in at 604.5 pounds, grown by a Vermont pumpkineer.
 * 1993 — Andy Tomolonis, "From tiny seed, great pumpkin will grow", Boston Herald, 11 April 1993:
 * "Why grow ordinary vegetables?" says Ray Waterman, who cofounded the organization with Canadian "pumpkineer" Howard Dill.
 * 1993 — Gail Swainson, "Pumpkin cheaters! Who's stealing seeds from the Great Gourd?", Toronto Star, 20 November 1993:
 * "Anyone who would steal seeds like that is no real pumpkineer," sniffed grower Len Stolk of Sherkston in the Niagara area.
 * 1995 — Andy Tomolonis, "Pretty prize picks for Peter Peter Pumpkin-eater", Boston Herald, 15 October 1995:
 * Atlantic Giant: This is the monster vegetable developed by Nova Scotia pumpkineer Howard Dill and hoisted onto scales for county fair bragging rights.
 * 2002 — Rebecca Caldwell, "My, what a huge gourd", The Globe and Mail, 19 October 2002:
 * He is not a farmer — he works as a designer and decorator in Toronto. But he is what he jokingly likes to call a pumpkineer.
 * 2008 — "The Biggest Beetroot in the World: Giant Vegetables and the People Who Grow Them", The Times, 17 August 2008:
 * When it comes to growers' motivations, the best clue obtained by Michael Leapman comes from a British pumpkineer who confesses that “when you're making something grow that can put on 50lb in in one day - well, it's just fun”.