NY Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend Smashes Record	The world s largest pumpkin and gourds are on display this weekend through Halloween at the New York Botanical Garden where expert carvers are currently at work providing the finishing touches to their fruit-sculpture masterpieces.	Breaking last year s record the centerpiece pumpkin this year is a frightful 2032 pounds (922 kilograms) and was grown Tim and Susan Mathison in Napa California. Master Carver Ray Villafane a former school teacher who became a professional pumpkin carver seven years ago told AFP that this year s giant pumpkin with its overlapping folds and creases is perfect for creating a hive of pumpkin wasps.	PHOTOS: Autumn Colors    	The Haunted Pumpkin Garden will also display four other ginormous pumpkins which Villafane and a team of carvers will transform into carnivorous plants and other unearthly creatures. Two pumpkins from New Brunswick Canada won their regional weigh-off competitions with a hefty 1813 pounds and 1024.5 pounds. Another two from Edinburgh Pennsylvania weighed-in at 1496 pounds and 1391.5 pounds.	The Haunted Garden will also display the world s largest watermelon weighing 350.5 pounds and grown in Sevierville Tennessee; and the world s largest long gourd a lengthy 139.25 inches grown in Nova Scotia Canada.	As many as 15000 people are expected to visit the NY Botanical Garden s Haunted Garden in the Bronx this weekend. The exhibition will last as long as the weather holds; last year the event closed early due to Hurricane Sandy.	This story was provided by Discovery News.