Posted on 03/01/2021 6:01:03 AM PST by mylife
FOR PETER GLAZEBROOK, THERE WAS one bright spot to 2020. A leek he entered into last year’s Mansfield Grow Show, which judges declared to be a monstrous four feet long, won him a new world record. “That makes 16 world records I’ve held over the years,” Glazebrook wrote to me recently, via email. “However, it’s a competitive hobby, so I currently only hold three.” Today, he is the proud grower of the world’s heaviest cauliflower (60 pounds), potato (10 pounds), and, as of 2020, the longest leek.
Glazebrook, a lithe, 76-year-old former building surveyor from Nottinghamshire, England, is one of the most decorated competitors in the world when it comes to the uniquely British sport of growing giant vegetables. For years, he has dominated a competition that’s grown from a Welsh bar bet into a massive online community of giant vegetable enthusiasts with participants on every continent. “It’s expanded beyond all recognition,” says Kevin Fortey, the unofficial spokesperson for the ‘giant veg’ community. But if 30-foot-long beets, 10-pound tomatoes, or one-ton pumpkins sound like a waste of food and time, government researchers around the world are now taking a serious look at leviathan produce.
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Yes. My favorites were Bananas, Take the Money and Run, and Sleeper. Sleeper is of course the one that my gifs at the top were from.
Having Howard Cosell doing the play-by-play of the assasination was brilliance. "And Down!...It's over..all over for El Presidente".
“From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish!
In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.
Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!”
LOL Diana. Thanks for the ping. Go Green..
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My mother used to refer to the extra large zucchini in pir garden as “home wreckers.”
She could be a little colorful.
Here's my Great Grand-Pappy gettin' his Taters to Market:
Goodness! If the ladies were to do a cabbage leaf Fan Dance
this would be the cabbage to use!
(That is a lot of cole slaw!)
Sturtevant WI in July....Cabbage as far as the eye can see!
(And of course the smell!)
Too funny! lol lol lol
“Feed me!” says Audreym the venus fly trap! lol lol lol
Surreal! That’s a LOT of Sauerkraut!
LOVE the ladies in their Cabbage Costumes.
Its wild!
Nothing grown that large can be anything but tough. IMO.
It can be a fun hobby.....but don’t we pay a premium for baby haricort verte, peas, strawberries?
It was either President Potato Head or President Potato Brain.
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Giant vegetables look cool, but I’d rather breed for taste.
Agreed. I hate cleaning/cooking/processing winter squash as it is!
Oh, well. We’re all eventually compost, anyway. ;)
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