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Record size Pumpkins

Posted by TopVeg - October 2nd, 2008

Europe’s largest-ever vegetable is a 1,341lb pumpkin, grown in a purpose-built polytunnel at Worgret Manor Farm in Wareham, Dorset by father and son farmers Mark and Frank Baggs.

The record pumpkin needed:

80 gallons of water a day
six tonnes of manure
lots of sun, showers and humidity

The world’s heaviest-ever pumpkin weighed in at 1,502lbs and was grown by Ron Wallace of Rhode Island, USA.

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