GIANT VEGGIES!
Finally , I can start to speak about giant veggie as I will start the pumpkin vine this month inside . Here is some background information on some giant veggie so you will understand them . afterwards in another post , I will get more specific on which elephantine veggies I am growing .
All or most of the giant pumpkins , gargantuan squash rackets , giant heart ( look like BIG zucchini ) and giant tomatoes where multitude want toBREAK RECORDS AND GET THEM OFFICIALLY WEIGHEDare listed by the weight / grower ’s name and year . So for example : the newfangled world disc pumpkin holder is go for by a woman named Christy Harp who broke the record last year - so her Cucurbita pepo is list as 1725 C. Harp 09 . This means her pumpkin weighed 1725 lbs , her name is C.Harp and 09 is the twelvemonth it was uprise .
Here is a pic of her with her world record pumpkin . This pumpkin do from a genetic line of products of very bountiful pumpkins , so those of us after record look at the line of each come to give us what we recall are the best odds of growing certain traits - ie size , configuration , or color and weight unit . Now you do n’t have to go to any peculiar weigh - offs or corrupt any specific semen from a grower unless you desire it tape .
There are some varieties of these veggie that are cognise to rise very BIG . If you set these , you will grow some very vainglorious veggie maybe not a world book but big . None of these are GMOs but almost all are hybrids . Here are some variety show of giant vegetables to get you started that will give you the potential to grow em BIG !
gargantuan PUMPKINS - If you do n’t want too big , attempt Big Max pumpkins where you have the potential difference to originate a 100 pound Cucurbita pepo but hands down the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin variety is the one most grown - you may get it generically like I did my first year from amazon.com ( I develop a 225 lb pumpkin that year ) or you may join some giant pumpkin order and/or organizations and buy or necessitate to get some specific seed that has been grown by one of the big growers . It ’s a whole different thing or as Christy Harp allege about giant pumpkin acquire , “ It ’s a hobby drop dead crazy ” ! The interesting thing is many jumbo Cucurbita pepo growers are growing them organically . Now is n’t that nerveless ! One of the most important things I learned from some growers is to create really healthy stain .
GIANT TOMATOES - Some variety you could purchase through the catalogs are : Big Zacs , Giant Belgiums , Delicious and many more to grow 3 lb plus maters .
MARROWS - They are n’t generally grow here in the states but are big in Europe and I ’m not sure why . Their seeds are unvoiced to get here . I got one seminal fluid from a grower in the Netherland that I will try this year . It was 76 lbs . We ’ll see how big it ’s off spring gets or if it will even do well here .
