[新聞]英國退休長者種出破紀錄巨型蔬菜

vandas

Wait 'till you see the potatoes! Pensioner grows the world's biggest swede and Britain's largest carrot

• Ian Neale, 70, grew an 8 1/2 stone swede and a carrot weighing 1st 4lbs
• Bachelor from Langstone, south Wales, hopes to do even better next year
• Veg on display at Autumn Show in Malvern, Worcs, which opens tomorrow
• Others in show include a 16st pumpkin grown by Richard Smith in Bristol

A green-fingered pensioner broke two gardening records today when he unveiled the world's biggest swede and Britain's largest carrot.

Bachelor Ian Neale, 70, broke his own record by growing a swede weighing 8 1/2 stone (54kg), and broke another record by growing a 1st 4lbs (8.35kg) carrot in his garden at home in Langstone, south Wales.

He had nurtured them using a home-made fertiliser mix perfected over 30 years, but said if the weather hadn't been so irregular his veg would have been bigger still.


Ian Neale, from Langstone, south Wales, with his world record-breaking swede, left, and carrot, right


Pumpkin coming through: Clive Bevan from Northamptonshire gets help from a forklift to unload his veg


A child's nightmare: A cabbage weighing around 60lbs needs a trolley to wheel it into place at the show

'If the weather hadn't been so strange this year with the wet spring and the hot summer I think they could have been even bigger,' Mr Neale said.

'You don't set out going for the record, that's an added bonus, and it's better than sitting in a corner until you die.'

Mr Neale's swede was nearly two stone heavier than the previous world champion - which he had grown himself, while his carrot was around 7lbs heavier than the previous biggest in England.

He exhibited the record-breaking produce ahead of Autumn Show at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire, which opens tomorrow to an estimated 50,000 visitors.

Supermarket worker Richard Smith, 48, from Bristol, was displaying a 16 stone (160lb/100kg) pumpkin.
He said: 'It's the biggest one I've ever grown - I just used the normal things really, such as seaweed and fish emulsion.


Heave! Ian Neale helps gardener Tim Saint with his over-sized watermelon at the Autumn Show in Malvern


Enormous veg: Peter Glazebrook and a prize-winningly long parsnip, left, and Kevin Fortey with a large radish


Tim Saint arrives at the Three Counties Showground with an extremely large marrow he grew for the show

'It took seven weeks from pollination and I was quite impressed with myself.
The world record for biggest carrot is still held by Alaskan John Evans, who grew a 8.6 kg (18.8 lbs) whopper in 1998.


Mr Neale digs up his 8 1/2 stone (54kg) world-record breaking swede at his allotment in Langstone


Mr Neale needs a wheelbarrow to transport his super-swede (left), and the world-record breaking specimen safely strapped into his car (right) to take it to the UK Giant Vegetable Championships at the Malvern Autumn Show this weekend


Mr Neale has nurtured his gigantic swede using a home-made fertiliser mix perfected over 30 years, but said if the weather hadn't been so irregular his veg would have been bigger still

vandas

還有其他, 巨型蔬菜大集合:


Toddler Bailey Martin is dwarfed by the giant pumpkin, which weighs 1,100lbs


Angry: Gardener Barry Micklethwaite, with a super-size onion and some of his many medals, is planning to fight a ban on him entering vegetable competitions


Top grower: Mr Micklethwaite with his prize leeks and huge onion, which will not be shown in South Yorkshire horticultural shows following the ban


Whopper: Grandfather Luca Puopolo had to remove a pane of glass in his greenhouse to grow this mighty courgette, which is 6ft long


Dwarfed: The vegetables are already longer than Mr Pupolo himself, not to mention his four-year-old grandson, Gio Shinn


Pumped up: J.D. Megchelsen poses next to his giant pumpkin in Alaska. J.D. Megchelsen holds the record for giant pumpkins in Alaska, and knew he had a candidate this year to beat the record of 1,287 pounds set by him in 2011


Magnificent: Phillip Vowles's mighty marrow, that weighs more than a baby hippo and takes two men to lift


Stuff of fairytales: Mr Vowles' 11-month-old granddaughter Sophia shows just how big it is by posing behind the gourd


On top: Mr Vowles says his marrow is still growing and hopes that by the time the giant vegetable competition arrives it will have broken the 150lb world record


On the grow: Mr Vowles poses with another marrow which he is cultivating using his same special method. Right, the certificate for growing the heaviest cucumber in 1990


Record breaker: Mr Vowles poses with the heaviest cucumber ever, which the professional gardner grew in 1990


Giant: The grandfather of seven proves his credentials by posing here with some of his giant cabbages


Thirsty work: Expert gardener Mr Vowles grew this giant pumpkin by feeding it a diet of beer

vandas

搞不清楚這個 swede 中文是甚麼. 查過應該是 turnip 蕪菁但又一點也不像.

亞良

大到應該是有得看, 食唔到