Giant Vegetables Weighing 1300 Lbs Delivered in Forklifts Star in UK County Fair

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A UK county fair starred giant vegetables that were carried in using forklifts.

Giant vegetables that were transported to the competition venue using forklifts and weighed up to 1,300 pounds were the stars at a county fair in the UK.

UK County Fair Malvern Autumn Festival

Growers from all over the Isles demonstrated the genuinely frightful sizes that vegetables can reach during the Malvern Autumn Festival last weekend in the UK, with the largest pumpkins being hauled in on a forklift.

Tim Saint, who won fourth place, used a trailer to transport his massive 667-pound pumpkin to the competition, which took place over the weekend in Worcestershire, England.

Curtis Leach's first-place-winning pumpkin arrived at weights generally reserved for cars, so even though Saint required a pallet, trailer, and industrial straps to handle it, his was a mere pipsqueak in comparison.

Visitors can be astounded by the size of exhibits at the CANNA UK National Giant Vegetables Championship when they attend the Malvern Autumn Festival in addition to the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show.

Visitors will find duck herding, dog agility events, gundog demonstrations, and a vintage tractor display at the Autumn Show, which focuses on rural pursuits. There are many cuddly animals available for petting, as well as competitive divisions for pigs, guinea pigs, and rabbits.

Giant Vegetables

The enormous gourd, which weighed 1,373 lbs, was half as big as the previous Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin, which stood at 2,700 pounds, but 40 kilograms more than the runner-up.

Saint asserted that he is pleased with the 667 lb. pumpkin he grew this year. That is the largest pumpkin Saint has ever produced in his 20 years of producing them. Saintm compared the pumpkin to himself, who is 6 feet tall, and determined that it had to be at least 3 feet tall.

Saint claims that the key is simply having an abundance of water and manure, particularly cow manure.

It needs a lot of water, according to Saint, who won first place for the largest beetroot, and he typically provides his enormous veggie with five watering cans per day.

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The festival has a total of 35 categories for giant or long vegetables at one of the biggest harvest festivals in the UK, and this year 8 new world records were established, including the largest runner bean leaf, the heaviest runner bean, the tallest tomatillo plant, the longest luffa, the heaviest bell pepper, the heaviest cucumber, and the heaviest and longest broad bean.

Ian Stott placed second this year after bringing a 49-pound cabbage, earning him a spot on the podium. Stott boasted that it measures around four and a half feet broad, but said that the hot weather at the start of the season has made this a bad year for cabbages.

According to Stott, all a gardener needs is the correct seed and Mother Nature's cooperation.

Stott claimed that this year's cabbages were particularly large. He claimed that they were 6 feet broad and that it was challenging to avoid breaking the leaves off the enormous cabbage. Stott came in second place behind Annette Stone, whose cabbage broke the 54-pound mark.

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