“Nature’s wonders on a grand scale: Behold giant vegetables in cππtivπtinπ snapshots. π±πΈ #GardenMarvels” Uncategorized hoa January 29, 2024 Giant vegetables – in pictures It’s the time of year when a certain type of gardener starts polishing pumpkins and measuring marrows … Harrogate Autumn Flower show Director Martin Fish with a giant cabbage, as he introduced a series of new classes for Giant Vegetables to mark this year’s 100th anniversary of the show Photograph: John Giles/PA Joe Medway poses with the 392.8kg giant Atlantic Pumpkin grown by Ken Ryan from Goulbourn, winner of the largest pumpkin category at the District Exhibits section of the Sydney Royal Easter Show Photograph: Cameron Richardson/Newspix / Rex/Rex Features Giant vegetable legend Bernard Lavery and some of his produce in 1995 Photograph: Chip Hires/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images A giant cucumber measuring 42 inches grown by Clare Pearce in Whittleset, Peterborough Photograph: Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features Nissan Tamir from Omer, Israel found that two of his radishes had grown non-stop, each eventually weighing 10kg Photograph: Azulai/Israel Sun/Rex Features Antonio Martone with a giant 15-inch, 1lb beefsteak tomato he grew in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire from a seed sent to him by his family in Naples Photograph: Solent News/Rex Features Michael Kingston with a 5.7kg leek grown by Joe Atherton at Britain’s Monster Vegetable competition at the Royal Bath and West Show Ground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1999 Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA It’s not a vegetable, but impressive nonetheless: Rong Guiling with some of the giant mushrooms she has grown in Gongcheng, Guangxi Province, China Photograph: Quirky China News/Rex Features Again, a vegetable it is not, but a 1.5kg white truffle is a noble thing. It sold for Β£160,000 Photograph: MN Chan/Getty Images AsiaPac Bob Eynstone holding up a 5lb carrot from his garden, 1973. If you could grow carrots like this, you’d have a glint in your eye, too Photograph: J. R. V. Johnson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Gardener Phillip Vowles and his son Andrew with a giant 51kg marrow grown in Llanharry, south Wales Photograph: Rex Features Onion in hand: Peter Glazebrook poses with his world record breaking onion at The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. He claimed a Guinness World Record with this effort which weighed 8.15kg Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hoa
It’s the time of year when a certain type of gardener starts polishing pumpkins and measuring marrows … Harrogate Autumn Flower show Director Martin Fish with a giant cabbage, as he introduced a series of new classes for Giant Vegetables to mark this year’s 100th anniversary of the show Photograph: John Giles/PA Joe Medway poses with the 392.8kg giant Atlantic Pumpkin grown by Ken Ryan from Goulbourn, winner of the largest pumpkin category at the District Exhibits section of the Sydney Royal Easter Show Photograph: Cameron Richardson/Newspix / Rex/Rex Features Giant vegetable legend Bernard Lavery and some of his produce in 1995 Photograph: Chip Hires/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images A giant cucumber measuring 42 inches grown by Clare Pearce in Whittleset, Peterborough Photograph: Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features Nissan Tamir from Omer, Israel found that two of his radishes had grown non-stop, each eventually weighing 10kg Photograph: Azulai/Israel Sun/Rex Features Antonio Martone with a giant 15-inch, 1lb beefsteak tomato he grew in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire from a seed sent to him by his family in Naples Photograph: Solent News/Rex Features Michael Kingston with a 5.7kg leek grown by Joe Atherton at Britain’s Monster Vegetable competition at the Royal Bath and West Show Ground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1999 Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA It’s not a vegetable, but impressive nonetheless: Rong Guiling with some of the giant mushrooms she has grown in Gongcheng, Guangxi Province, China Photograph: Quirky China News/Rex Features Again, a vegetable it is not, but a 1.5kg white truffle is a noble thing. It sold for Β£160,000 Photograph: MN Chan/Getty Images AsiaPac Bob Eynstone holding up a 5lb carrot from his garden, 1973. If you could grow carrots like this, you’d have a glint in your eye, too Photograph: J. R. V. Johnson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Gardener Phillip Vowles and his son Andrew with a giant 51kg marrow grown in Llanharry, south Wales Photograph: Rex Features Onion in hand: Peter Glazebrook poses with his world record breaking onion at The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. He claimed a Guinness World Record with this effort which weighed 8.15kg Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images