11 unbelievably massive vegetables that will put your garden to shame
Take a look at the former entries for the UK National Giant Vegetable Championship.
Take a look at the former entries for the UK National Giant Vegetable Championship.
Take a look at the former entries for the UK National Giant Vegetable Championship.
Looking in your own , you may be bursting with pride at the size of your tomatoes, pumpkins or leeks. But you may feel slightly inferior when you see some of the previous entries of the U.K.’s National Giant Vegetable Championship at the in Worcestershire.
Sponsored by Dutch garden supplier CANNA, the competition ends on September 30th and will showcase super-sized vegetables from growers in 33 different classes. Four new categories have been added this year: Heaviest Three Sticks of Rhubarb, Heaviest Kohlrabi, Heaviest Eggplant and Longest Radish.
Will there be records broken this year? The expert growers from across the U.K. have a lot to live up to, as last year, four world records and one European record were broken, including the "World’s Heaviest ."
In 2016, David Thomas from Cornwall smashed a world record with the world's heaviest red cabbage at 51.36 pounds, almost 10 pounds heavier than the previous record set in 1925.
And don't worry about food waste – most of the giant vegetables from the show are donated by their growers as feed for livestock.
This year’s entries will arrive at the 2018 September show, but take a look at some of the annual competition’s previous massive contenders below.
Check out a record-breaking pumpkin in the related video above.
