Autumn is generous with fruits, and the Earth is generous with world records. Every year, the best agronomists on the planet boast about the largest and most ambitious results of their work. Giant zucchini, long cucumbers and heavy pumpkins - any owner would be proud of such beauties. Therefore, every year gardeners from all over the world present wonderful creations of their own hands for public comment.
A huge head of cabbage in the hands of the director of the autumn flower exhibition Martin Fish in the town of Herrogate, UK.
Farmer Derek Neumann takes his vegetable queen to the exhibition.
The weight of this pumpkin is 392 kg. It was raised by Ken Ryan, winner of the largest pumpkin competition.
Bernard Lever - a legend in the world of growing giant vegetables - with his 1995 harvest.
1m and 6cm is the length of a cucumber grown by Claire Pearce in Whittleset.
Nissan Tamir from Omer (Israel) boasts of 10-kilogram radishes grown in his own garden.
A tomato weighing 450 g, with a diameter of 38 cm, grew from Antonio Martone from seeds that his family sent him from Naples.
Michael Kingston with a 5.7kg leek grown by Joe Atherton for the Monster Vegetable competition at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, 1999.
These huge mushrooms grew in China.
This carrot weighs 2.27 kg. She was raised by Bob Ainstone in 1973.
This is the handsome zucchini who grew up in Llangarry, South Wales. In the photo, gardener Phillip Vowels with his son Andrew and a 51-pound miracle from his garden.
8.5 kg of tears from professional gardener from Great Britain Peter Glazebrook. His bulb surpassed the previous record by 1 kg 100 g. He received 1,500 euros for his vegetable “treasure”. However, this is not Peter's first achievement. Before this, the potatoes, beets and parsnips he grew also broke world records.
A group photo of the participants of the farming festival in the town of Herrogate as a souvenir.
Just one, cursory or careless, glance at such the onion will make the beholder shed tears. The mere thought of a lemon the size of a watermelon can make you salivate the size of a watermelon. As for watermelons, imagining a 350-pound “berry” grown in America, it is easy to remember the deeds of bipeds, who, for example, had the gift to feed several thousand malnourished units of the human race with two fish or several loaves.
If only the little people were the little ones from Nikolai Nosov’s trilogy about Dunno and his friends, gigantic vegetables and fruits would not surprise anyone.
But sapiens are not able to change in size enough to build and furnish houses in pumpkins, and snack on a barrel of vodka with one cucumber. But, having delved into the laws and whims of nature and exerted titanic efforts in half with love for things that are tasty and nutritious, people learned to grow giant fruits and vegetables in completely unimaginative, earthly gardens yes vegetable gardens.
Signor Tomato: not in science fiction, but also without GMOs
The largest-fruited tomato variety, Gigantomo, was bred specifically for competitive battles of heavyweights. It took 20 years to create the variety. Fifteen of them were developed by the elderly American Paul Thomas, and his research was completed by a resident of England, one of the leading breeders of the kingdom, Simon Crawford. A tomato bush of supernatural dimensions reached a height of two meters.
As soon as the Gigantomo seeds appeared in retail, the first batch was sold out short term- 36 hours. All and sundry began to cherish and nurture the champions. On annual competition For the title of heaviest tomato, the winner is paid £1,000, as well as a £5,000 bonus if the first tomato of the championship also breaks the world record. A special group of “green criminologists” from Holland is working to ensure that the leading tomatoes are representatives of the Gigantomo variety, and not some other mutants. Controllers conduct a rapid analysis of the DNA of candidates for the prize, so GMOs and other rabble have no chance of winning the competition.
In 2015, Joe Etherton won the English tomato growing competition in the “Gigantomo” category with a tomato monster weighing 1.7 kilograms.
The official world record is considered to be the existence of a tomato weighing 3.8 kg. American Dan McCoy from Minnesota got into the Guinness Book of Records with this massive vegetable. This happened in August 2014. Mr. McCoy did not encounter any particular difficulties in raising the giant nicknamed “Big Zach.” Except that I had to carefully tie up the tomato with my wife’s old tights.
Zucchini for Robin Bobbin and other monsters of Albion
A gentleman named Peter Glazebrook, living in the north of England in Newark, devoted his life to growing huge ones. Most recently, in September 2015, a 70-year-old Englishman won the championship in the “Heaviest Zucchini” competition. The vegetable grown by Glazebrook weighs 52.2 kg and has the potential to satisfy the appetite of any glutton, with the needs of Gargantua, Robin Bobbin or Bad Boy.
In general, Uncle Peter, who fertilizes plantings with calcium nitrate and copious doses of potash, holds five world records in the field of agricultural megalomania. These include the longest beetroot and parsley root at 19 feet, the largest British potato, a ripe heavyweight cucumber, a monster onion and a giant cauliflower, the head of which weighs 27.5 kilograms. The last vegetable was frozen by the record-breaking gardener (by agreement with his wife) - they will eat it in the winter, sawing off little by little. Although at first it was planned to feed the giant fruit to the country’s royal family.
Acid-vitamin bombs in the arsenals of Israel and Pakistan
The Guinness Book of World Records contains an entry dated January 8, 2003, which narrates the success of Aharon Shemoel, a passionate farmer from Israel. Mr. Shemoel grew lemons in the garden that were larger than a man's head.
The heaviest of these storehouses of acid, sugar and ascorbic acid weighed 5 kilograms 265 grams. Seven years later, Pakistani Nasir Hassan set out to break the Israeli record, surprising his fellow countrymen with a lemon the size of a watermelon, the mass of which was allegedly 5.5 kilos.
A farmer living and working on the outskirts of Sargodha took 10 years to reach his goal. To protect the giant fruit from attacks by neighbors, it had to be especially carefully guarded. To boast about the miracle lemon, Hassan displayed it to the delight of onlookers in an Islamabad fruit and vegetable store.
Onion sake look A
Experienced summer residents and fazendeiros claim that there is nothing unrealistic about growing a giant onion crop. That you just need to start with seedlings and every bulb that can gain weight up to several kilos should be surrounded with attention and care. Drive away flies, blow away dust particles, feed and water on time, properly dry the crop. And then, in less than a year, you will be able to proudly take pictures with your well-fed pet - almost like Madame Barbara Cook at the “Heaviest Onion” competition:
The king onions It is not without reason that Mr. Tony Glover considers himself to be from the English countryside. His name is mentioned in the Guinness Book because Tony managed to grow the heaviest onion on Earth - weighing 8.5 kg.
In an interview, the farmer admitted that during the long 11 months of growth, he generously fed the record onion with nitrogen fertilizers and carefully monitored soil moisture. He also organized plant lighting in the greenhouse on those days when the weather was black and white in English. 50-year-old Glover has been growing vegetables since his childhood and knows exactly how to kiss correctly if he smells of onions.
Record heat
If records are meant to be broken, watermelons are worth growing specifically to exceed someone's previous results.
The champion of the super-heavy bounty melons is the monster Carolina Cross, grown by Janet and Chris Kent in their field in Sevier County, Tennessee. The weight of the thoroughbred southerner was 159 kg and this was in 2013 - when the weather was hot for a long time, very favorable for the growth and ripening of watermelons.
For a package of 3-4 seeds of the world champion, Chris Kent honestly asked for $40, and his colleagues gladly forked out the money. As for the previous world record, it belonged to Italian Gabriel Bartoli, whose super watermelon in 2012 weighed 45 pounds (20 kg) lighter.
Carriage for Cinderella
This is Brian Marshall from Nottingham, posing with his record pumpkin, which was measured at 230 kilograms (or 507.06 pounds) at a recent UK Flower Show.
And below is the world champion and record holder of 2014, which weighs almost like a real carriage in which you can send Cinderella to the ball. We are talking about a mass of 950 kilos.
The superfruit ripened on the farm of Benny Meyer, a 30-year-old Swiss. To transport the pumpkin to the exhibition and get the prize, we had to hire a truck with a crane. Abundant watering and daily care contributed to the ripening of the melon monster.
Since carving is a figured carving on vegetables and fruits, one cannot help but touch upon the achievements of man in the field of growing these products. Cause surprise and shock how much great results Farmers from different countries were able to achieve this.
Below are the most outstanding Guinness Book of Records records from the “Big Food” section.
THE BIGGEST WATERMELON
Lloyd Bright and his Hope Farm Store have been growing giant watermelons continuously since 1979. The last of the victories was a watermelon, weighing 122 kg. The world record for the speed of eating a watermelon was set in 2001 by Italian Francesco Traina. He managed to eat a kilogram of watermelon in 1 minute
THE BIGGEST PUMPKIN
Soji Shirai from Ashibetsu (Japan) is pictured next to a 440 kg pumpkin. An average pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) weighs between 1 and 2 kg. The largest pumpkin in the world was grown by Gary Burke from Simcoe (Ontario, Canada) and weighs 495 kg. The record was registered on October 3, 1998.
THE BIGGEST ZUCCHER
The largest zucchini in the world was grown by an Australian from the Norfolk Islands. It took two people to lift the 65-kilogram zucchini.
THE BIGGEST CUCUMBER
The world's largest cucumber grew in the garden of British gardener Alfo Cobb. Its length reaches 91.7 centimeters. Moreover, this is Cobb’s second world record. His previous record cucumber was 89.2 centimeters long.
THE BIGGEST CABBAGE
John Evans from Alaska, USA, is famous for growing giant vegetables, one of them is cabbage, which weighs 34.4 kg.
THE HEaviest CARROT
John Evans also managed to grow the heaviest carrot, weighing 8.5 kg in 1998.
THE BIGGEST CAULIFLOWER
Continuing his string of records, Evans grew the largest cauliflower, which weighed 14.1 kg.
THE LONGEST CARROT
The record carrot, 4 m 57 cm long, was grown by James Crow.
THE BIGGEST TOMATO
Gordon Graham of Edmond grew a tomato weighing 3.51 kilograms in 1986. He also grew a tomato bush 16.3m high. It was reported that 12,312 pieces grew on a single bush. tomatoes in 347 days. And the Japanese entered the Guinness Book of Records by growing a tomato tree the height of a three-story house on a special frame.
THE BIGGEST MANGO
Colleen Porter, a resident of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, grew the largest mango in the world. The record fruit weighs 2.46 kg! The Keitt variety, which holds the record fruit, usually does not reach more than 1.3 kg.
THE BIGGEST LEEK
The 4.34kg leek was grown by Hanky Bishop in 1983.
THE BIGGEST ONION
Mel Edney from Anstruther (Fife, UK) in 1997 grew the world's largest onion weighing 7.03 kg.
THE BIGGEST POTATOES POTATOES
Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat from the southern city of Tire could not believe his eyes when he discovered such a huge sweet potato in his garden - 11.2 kg.
THE HEaviest BROCCOLI
And then John Evans succeeded: he grew a giant broccoli weighing 15.8 kg.
THE BIGGEST VIETNAMESE ZUCCHER
A two-meter Vietnamese zucchini was grown by 63-year-old pensioner from Chisinau Nina Sychuk. The record-breaking vegetable was growing by leaps and bounds. At times I gained ten centimeters (!) per day. You could eat zucchini in parts: just cut it piece by piece, and the vegetable, you know, grows further.
THE BIGGEST POTATO
One thing has been established that the British farmer J. Est from Spalding dug up a potato weighing 3.2 kg in 1963, from which a tuber grown in 1982 in the field of the British D. Busby from Atherston could not take the record only because he had such the same weight. An 8.3kg potato tuber said to have been grown in 1795 in Chester must be relegated to the category of dubious legend.
BIGGEST POTATO HARVEST
Vyacheslav Fedorovich Musatov from the city of Bobruisk-25 (Belarus) harvested a large potato harvest from one bush. Under one potato bush of the Sineglazka variety, 26 potatoes grew with a total weight of 3 kg 150 g.
THE LARGEST DAIKON
The world's largest daikon was grown by a resident of the city of Sakurajima, located next to the city of the same name. active volcano on the south Japanese island Kyushu. The daikon grown by 58-year-old Manabu Ono pulled 29.6 kg and had no equal at the competition held in this city. Its organizers intend to apply for the inclusion of the miracle radish in the Guinness Book of Records. In it, by the way, the record holder so far is the daikon, grown by the same enthusiast, who this time surpassed own achievement immediately by 8.4 kg.
BIGGEST CORN COB
Bernard Lavery from Rhonda (UK) grew an ear of corn 92 cm long.
THE BIGGEST PINEAPPLE
The 8.06 kg pineapple was grown in 1994 by E. Kamuk from Ace Village (Papua New Guinea).
THE BIGGEST GRAPEFRUIT
J. Willington collected a fruit weighing 2.966 kg. (Tuscon, Arizona 12/21/84).
THE LONGEST KOHLRABI
Kohlrabi, 4.16 m long, was grown in 1982 by B.T. Newton (Australia).
THE BIGGEST LEMON
The lemon, weighing 3.88 kg and 74.9 cm in circumference, was harvested in California in 1982.
THE BIGGEST MELONE
Melon weighing 118 kg. matured in 1985 in the USA.
THE BIGGEST PEAR
A specimen weighing 1.405 kg. was recorded in 1979 in South Wales.
THE BIGGEST SUGAR BEET
Vegetable weighing 20.63 kg. was grown in California in 1974.
THE BIGGEST TURNIP
Turnip weighing 15.975 kg. matured by C. W. Butler at Nafferton in 1972. A turnip weighing 33.1 kg was reported in 1768 and a turnip weighing 23.1 kg was reported from Alaska in 1981.
THE LONGEST CHILI PEPPER
The specimen is 6.6 m long. was noticed in 1985-1986.
THE BIGGEST BUCKLE OF TOMATOES
A bunch of tomatoes weighing 9.175 kg. raised by K. Bowcock in Merseyside.
In the world, for many hundreds of years, there has been a competition between vegetable growers and gardeners, trying to outstrip each other in growing the largest vegetables and fruits. The largest of them (as of September 2013) are:
807 kg - the weight of the largest pumpkin. It was grown in a greenhouse in Alaska by Dale Marshall in 2010.
122 kg - the weight of the largest watermelon. He was raised by Lloyd Bright from America in 2012. He breaks his own records almost every year.
65 kg - the weight of the largest zucchini. He was raised by Australian Ken Dade, who lives on Norfolk Island, in 2008. At the same time, the longest zucchini (160 cm!) was grown by Briton Alberto Marcantonio in 2012.
57.6 kg - the weight of the largest white cabbage. She was raised by Steven Hubandek, who lives in Alaska in 2009.
31.1 kg - the weight of the largest radish. She was raised by Japanese Manubu Ono from Kagoshima in 2003.
24.6 kg - the weight of the largest cauliflower. She was raised in 1999 by Briton Alan Hattersley. He broke the record of J. T. Cook Fungtington (23 kg), which has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records since 1966.
17.7 kg - the weight of the largest turnip. And she was raised not by her fairy-tale grandparents, but by the very real American Scotty Marty Robb, a resident of Alaska in 2004.
15.8 kg - the weight of the largest broccoli. She was raised by American John Evans, living in Alaska, in 1997.
15.6 kg - the weight of the largest lemon. He was raised by Aharon Shemel from Israel in 2003.
10 kg is the weight of the largest radish. It was grown in natural soil conditions by Israeli Nissan Tamir in 2009.
8.6 kg - the weight of the largest carrot grown by Lebanese Kleyat Ahmed Ibrahim on his plot in 2009. Carrot length 130 cm!
8.2 kg - the weight of the bulb grown by Peter Glaserbrook from Britain in 2013. By the way, he broke his own record, listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
8.06 kg - the weight of the largest pineapple grown by E. Kamuk in Papua New Guinea in 1994.
5.9 kg - the weight of the largest parsnip. He was raised by Briton Peter Glazebrook from Somerset in 2009.
3.76 kg - the weight of the largest potato. She was raised by the same Briton, Peter Glazebrook, on his property and presented at the fair in Shelton Mallet.
3.5 kg is the weight of the largest tomato. It was raised by American Gordon Graham (Oklahoma) back in 1986.
3.21 kg - the weight of the largest grapefruit. He was raised by Cloy Diaz Dutro from Brazil in 2006.
2.19 kg - the weight of the largest avocado. He was raised by Venezuelan Ramirez Naim from Caracas in 2009.
2 kg is the weight of a cucumber grown by a resident of Belarus, Zoya Leontyeva, in 2012. The length of the cucumber was 175 cm, which is almost twice as long as the cucumber listed in the Guinness Book of Records. But the taste of the cucumber turned out to be atypical - orange...
1.85 kg - the weight of the largest pomegranate. He was raised by Chinese Aiguo from Sichuan in 2009.
1.849 kg - the weight of the largest apple. He was raised by Japanese Chisato Iwasaki from the city of Hirosaki. Its dimensions exceed the size of the head of the Japanese himself.
1.19 kg - the weight of the largest head of garlic. She was raised on his plot by Californian Robert Kirkpatrick in 1985.
0.725 kg - the weight of the largest peach. He was raised by Paul Faraday, an American from Michigan, in 2002.
0.5 kg - the weight of the largest bell pepper, grown by farmers in the Israeli village of Ein Yahav in 2011. They broke the record of Edward Curry, who in 2009 grew a pepper weighing 290 grams and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
0.23 kg - the weight of the largest strawberry, which was grown by Briton John Andersen in 1983.
Autumn is not only a beautiful time of year, but also harvest time. This year, the ranking of giant fruits and vegetables has been replenished with new record holders from gardens and fields. For example, ten-year-old Alaskan resident Kivan Dinkel grew a head of cabbage weighing 41.9 kilograms, and a Japanese farmer surprised him with a grown pumpkin weighing 485.1 kilograms. Let's take a look at some impressive vegetables from this and last season.
A farmer from Japan's Chiba Prefecture grew a pumpkin weighing 485.1 kilograms, Japanese television channel NHK reported on Monday, September 23. The man took first place in the nationwide competition "Japan's Biggest Pumpkin."
Frame: NHK World TV channel
Koji Ueno, the farmer who grew the giant pumpkin, took first place in the competition for the second year. This year, 31 of the largest vegetables competed for the right to be called the “biggest pumpkin.” different corners Japan.
The event, organized by the local chapter of the International Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs and other organizations, has been held for 27 years. Most of the pumpkins entered into the competition are of the variety grown for livestock feed. The largest of them were weighed using a cargo lift.
Who grows giant vegetables and fruits
Koji Ueno with his record-breaking pumpkin will take part in international competition giant pumpkins, which will take place in Oregon in the USA on October 19.
A pumpkin weighing about 700 kilograms was grown by American Thad Starr on his plot in Oregon. He regularly brings giant pumpkins to various fairs and competitions. One of the latest specimens weighs approximately 800 kilograms. Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
Atherton's father is also named Joe and is also a keen vegetable grower. In this photo, he holds an 80-centimeter cucumber and a one and a half kilogram potato in his hands. Photo: Bruce Adams / Daily Mail / REX
Yorkshire Fair judges Adrian Reid and Dave Alcock hug the winner of the giant vegetable show - a 30kg head of cabbage. Photo: Bruce Adams / Daily Mail / REX
A resident of Chinese Yulin named Yan Hua obtained a mushroom weighing 4.5 kilograms. According to the Chinese, he bought it from a vegetable seller. He, in turn, said that he found a giant raincoat in the forest. Experts who examined the mushroom allowed Hua to eat it. Photo: Quirky China News
But this fodder beet harvest was harvested several years ago in Hungary. The weight and length of the fruits are not stated, but one glance at the root vegetables is enough to be impressed by their size. Photo: Europress Photo Agency
Briton Philip Vowles has been growing vegetables for many years. His successful gardening projects include giant pumpkins, cabbages, cucumbers and zucchini. In the photo he is captured with a seven-kilogram cucumber, which was once included in the Guinness Book of Records.
Vauls has been growing vegetables for 25 years, so he knows everything about how to get huge harvest. In this photo, Peter shows off a 51-kilogram zucchini that he managed to grow in just a month and a half.
Gardener Peter Glazebrook shows off a bulb weighing about eight kilograms. This vegetable was a participant in the same Yorkshire fair in 2011. Photo: Bruce Adams/Daily Mail
Israeli resident Yitzhak Izdanpana became interested in gardening after he retired. He managed to grow a cucumber 1.2 meters long. The pensioner assured that he did not use any special means to stimulate the growth of the vegetable - the cucumber grew on its own in three months. Photo: Israel Sun
Another Israeli, Nissan Tamir, has also been growing garden crops for a long time and with pleasure. On his plot, everything takes on gigantic proportions, even the radishes, which have gained 21 kilograms of weight. Photo: Azulai/Israel Sun
Chinese Liu Fengbin with a harvest of huge oranges. A resident of Hubei province grows them on his orange plantation. According to him, the same tree produces such fruits for several years. What the secret is is unknown. Photo: Quirky China News/HAP