Giant pumpkin grown by Wareham farmers breaks National Gardening Show record (From Bournemouth Echo)

Giant pumpkin grown by Wareham farmers breaks National Gardening Show record

8:37am Monday 6th September 2010 in

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HOW’S this for size? Two-year-old Benjamin Aplin Webb tries to lift this giant pumpkin grown in Dorset.

The pumpkin, which weighs in at 548.8kg – more than 86 stones – was grown by Frank Baggs and his son Mark, both from Wareham.

Two-year-old Benjamin, from Maiden Newton, was among the visitors aghast at the size of the vegetable which broke the show record at the National Gardening Show at the Royal Bath and West Showground, near Shepton Mallett, Somerset.

The Wareham farmers first visited the show in 2004 and were so astonished at the size of entries in the championships they decided to give it a go themselves – with outstanding results over the last few years.