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This monster pumpkin could smash the UK record after growing to the weight of a small car.
Farmer Mark Baggs has spent countless hours nurturing the giant squash after planting it in a 500ft polytunnel six months ago. He estimates it currently weighs 1,500lbs, the same as a Smart Car, but he hopes it will break the UK record of 1,504lbs - or 107 stone.
The pumpkin boasts a 15ft circumference and its roots span the entire length of the polytunnel. It is so heavy it has to be lifted onto a trailer using a forklift truck. But there is some way to go until Mr Baggs, from Wareham, Dorset, smashes the world record - a pumpkin grown in the US last year weighed in at 2,009lbs.
The father-of-two will find out if his pumpkin has broken the UK record at a ‘weigh off’ at a pumpkin festival in Southampton tomorrow. If it is declared the UK’s heaviest he will scoop a £1,000 reward from sponsors Thompson and Morgan. But he is up against rival growers Ian and Stuart Paton from Lymington, Hampshire, who set the current British record in 2010.
這顆巨無霸南瓜的重量相當於一輛小型汽車，英國多塞特（Dorset）的農夫 Mark Baggs 半年前在一座500英呎的溫室開始種植，並投入大量的心力來培育它。他估計，目前，這顆南瓜重達1500磅（約680公斤），重量跟一台 Smart Car 一樣，但他希望它能打破英國記錄的1504磅。它的周長有15英呎，其根更跨越整座溫室；必須使用叉架起貨機將它搬至拖車上。
