8 Impressive Giant Vegetables From Around The World

The Colossal Cabbage

Graham Tranter will have a near lifetime’s supply of vegetable soup – after growing this colossal cabbage weighing 31.7 Kg (69.8 lbs). The monster vegetable, grown by Graham, is 50 times heavier than average and would be enough for 300 servings of cabbage soup. link

World’s Biggest Ever Onion

Peter Glazebrook set a new record for the world’s biggest ever onion. The monster vegetable tipped the scales at 17lbs 15 and a half ounces – breaking the previous world record of 16lbs 8.37 ounces held by John Sifford, of the West Midlands, since 2005.link

The 392kg Giant Pumpkin

Ken Ryan has just smashed his own record with this 392kg giant gourd, beating his previous mark – which has stood for eight years – by 122.8kg. link

World’s Biggest Potato

A Lebanese farmer grew what may be the world’s largest potato – weighing in at an impressive 25 pounds. The farmer couldn’t believe his peeled eyes when he discovered he had grown a massive potato weighing 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds), he said, adding that he now hopes to enter the Guinness World Records book.link

The 10 Kg Radishes

Nissan Tamir found that two of his radishes had grown non-stop, each eventually weighing 10kg.link.

The £165,000 White Truffle

Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-prized fungus after it was dug up by his truffle dog near Pisa, northern Italy. The fungus turned out to be the largest and most expensive in decades. The 1.5kg white truffle was sold for £165,000!. link

The Giant 51 Kg Marrow

Gardener Phillip Vowles and his son Andrew with a giant 51 kg marrow grown in Llanharry, south Wales. Phillip must have thought he was on to a winner when he unearthed this monster marrow, but he’d been pipped to the world record by 1lb.link

Giant White Mushrooms

Rong Guiling, a mushroom farmer from Gongcheng in southern China has more than 10 fields of giant white mushrooms of all different species. Guiling says: “It’s hard to find a mushroom which is less than 2kg (4.4 lbs) However, when I bought the spores the person said they were for normal little white mushrooms.” Local agricultural experts say the mushrooms’ size could possibly be down to the fertilizer she uses, which includes lotus seed shell powder, peanut powder and maize powder. link