It’s the world’s heaviest cucumber, weighing a whopping 30lbs – about the same as a mountain bike. Vincent Sjodin, known to family and friends as Vince the Veg, grew his 4ft-long record-breaker in a polytunnel, and had to erect a hammock to stop it collapsing under its own weight. Vince, from the Vale of Glamorgan, also holds the record for the heaviest marrow (256lbs). He turned up at September’s UK National Giant Vegetables Championships with a 5lb potato, a tomato the size of a football, and a pumpkin that had to be driven there on a flatbed truck.
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