that's my boy!

expectations are always high when starting a new project, especially a garden. we all start out at the beginning with grand ideas about how beautiful and lush our foliage will become, how easy it will be to walk out to the back yard and harvest your dinner, how no weed will ever invade and of course that every single fruit of your labour will receive a spot in the guinness book of records. ah to dream...

the truth is that growing anything takes dedication, time and a huge amount of hard work, so as a little encouragement to all of you amateur gardeners out there, here are a few of the world's biggest vegetables... just to get you motivated! :)

All captions are taken from the source websites.

Joe Atherton from Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, has been growing prize vegetables for over 15 years and World Record success finally came in 2007 for the longest carrot in the world, a staggering length of over 19 feet!.

16lb 8³/₈oz - The world's largest onion was grown using humates. It was exhibited at the Harrogate Autumn Show, UK in 2005.

 LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Segee family in Leimert Park (daughters Jai'Neil, Dee'Anna, Jai'Lynn, mom Tiffany and dad Vernon) has cultivated a 28-pound cucumber-setting the world record for the Largest organic cucumber.

Gerald Treweek, a retired coal miner, raises his world-beating onions by hydroponics - nutrient solution. They don't grow in soil but on an artificial medium in tanks. Every so often they're flooded with nutrient-enriched water, then allowed to dry out before the next dousing.

Bernard Lavery is pictured here cradling his record 108.2 lb marrow. This is a vegetable commonly grown in Britain and is considered part of the autumn squash family. Bernard is known for growing hugely oversized plants and vegetables and has held the largest marrow record since 1990.

Check out the World’s Biggest Pumpkin that grew from half tons of manure, it weighs 1457 lbs, a little bit more than a Mini Cooper.

world's biggest banana :)

This prize potato, grown by Peter Glazebrook, tips the scales at a whopping 8lbs 4oz (3.76kg), smashing the previous world record by 9oz.

268.8-pound watermelon grown by Lloyd Bright, Arkansas

Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat, from the southern city of Tyre, couldn't believe his peeled eyes when he discovered he had grown a massive potato weighing 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds), setting a record for the world's largest potato.

Gordon Graham of Edmond, Oklahoma, holds the honor of growing the world?s largest tomato, which he harvested from his backyard greenhouse back in 1986

Titan Arum, the so-called largest vegetable flower, came into blossom at the Guangzhou Vegetable Park on Wednesday. This edible purple flower has a diameter of one meter.

 

The couple Sergio and Ma. Socorro Bodiongan
holds the Guinness Book of World Records'
Biggest Mango in the World.