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Jo Blason and Rick Peters

Giant vegetables - in pictures

Giant vegetables: Harrogate Autumn Flower show Director Martin Fish with a giant cabbage
Harrogate Autumn Flower show Director Martin Fish with a giant cabbage, as he introduced a series of new classes for Giant Vegetables to mark this year's 100th anniversary of the show Photograph: John Giles/PA
Giant vegetables: Giant pumpkin at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, Australia
Joe Medway poses with the 392.8kg giant Atlantic Pumpkin grown by Ken Ryan from Goulbourn, winner of the largest pumpkin category at the District Exhibits section of the Sydney Royal Easter Show Photograph: Cameron Richardson/Newspix / Rex/Rex Features
Giant vegetables: Bernard Lavery and some of his giant vegetables in 1995
Giant vegetable legend Bernard Lavery and some of his produce in 1995 Photograph: Chip Hires/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Giant vegetables: A giant cucumber grown by Clare Pearce
A giant cucumber measuring 42 inches grown by Clare Pearce in Whittleset, Peterborough Photograph: Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features
Giant vegetables: Nissan Tamir With His Giant Radishes At Omer Near Be'e Sheba, Israel
Nissan Tamir from Omer, Israel found that two of his radishes had grown non-stop, each eventually weighing 10kg Photograph: Azulai/Israel Sun/Rex Features
Giant vegetables: Antonio Martone with a giant 15-inch, 1lb beefsteak tomato he grew
Antonio Martone with a giant 15-inch, 1lb beefsteak tomato he grew in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire from a seed sent to him by his family in Naples Photograph: Solent News/Rex Features
Giant vegetables: Michael Kingston with a 5.7 kilogram leek grown by Joe Atherton
Michael Kingston with a 5.7kg leek grown by Joe Atherton at Britain's Monster Vegetable competition at the Royal Bath and West Show Ground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1999 Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA
Giant vegetables: Rong Guiling with some of the giant mushrooms she has grown
It's not a vegetable, but impressive nonetheless: Rong Guiling with some of the giant mushrooms she has grown in Gongcheng, Guangxi Province, China Photograph: Quirky China News/Rex Features
Giant vegetables: A 1.5 Kg Alba white truffle is presented by Chef Umberto Bombana
Again, a vegetable it is not, but a 1.5kg white truffle is a noble thing. It sold for £160,000 Photograph: MN Chan/Getty Images AsiaPac
Giant vegetables: Bob Eynstone holding up a large five-pound carrot from his garden
Bob Eynstone holding up a 5lb carrot from his garden, 1973. If you could grow carrots like this, you'd have a glint in your eye, too Photograph: J. R. V. Johnson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Giant vegetables: Gardener Phillip Vowles and his son Andrew with his giant 112lb marrow
Gardener Phillip Vowles and his son Andrew with a giant 51kg marrow grown in Llanharry, south Wales Photograph: Rex Features
Giant vegetables: Gardener Peter Glazebrook poses with his world record breaking onion
Onion in hand: Peter Glazebrook poses with his world record breaking onion at The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. He claimed a Guinness World Record with this effort which weighed 8.15kg Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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