Peter Glazebrook: Grows a giant cauliflower weighs in at 27.5kg world record (Video)

The enormous record-breaking vegetable was grown by veteran gardener Peter Glazebrook.

Glazebrook is no stranger to growing giant vegetables having already achieved world records for producing the longest beetroot, the longest parsnip, the heaviest onion and the heaviest potato at his garden in the East Midlands.

The record-breaking cauliflower was confirmed by a team of adjudicators who visited his greenhouse and weighed the vegetable to check that it exceeded the previous record of 24.6kg.


Peter Glazebrook with his heavyweight cucumber (SWNS)

"The weighing was conducted at my home because there were no vegetable shows at this time of year," said Glazebrook. "My previous effort in 2013 was weakened by the long cold snap that hit most of the UK and the exceptionally mild autumn this time has helped me to clinch this record breaker."

Mr Glazebrook weighed two cauliflowers on the day, with the first falling short, weighing in at only 23.22kg (51.15lb).
The previous world record had stood since 1999 and was held by Alan Hattersley of Sheffield, whose vegetable weighed 24.6kg - almost 3kg less.
The trimming and weighing was witnessed by two National Vegetable Society judges and five other observers and the foliage alone measured 6ft in diameter.


Peter Glazebrook with his award winning parsnip (SWNS)

Mr Glazebrook grew the world's longest beetroot and parsnip, measuring 21ft and 19ft .45in respectively.
In addition he holds the accolade of owning the heaviest onion, weighing 8.195kg, and potato at 4.98kg.

Peter Glazebrook's potato beat a world record which had stood since 1994

Kevin Fortey, a hobbyist giant vegetable growing expert and friend of Mr Glazebrook said: "The vegetables take a lot of time and dedication from the growers and are costly to produce.
"There's not been a cauliflower grown this big since 1999. It'd probably feed the entire royal family.
"Peter's wife, mary has been busy chopping up the cauli and freezing it."
The Darwin cauliflowers were grown from plugs planted in July 2013 in Mr Glazebrook's greenhouse and watered frequently with calcium nitrate, which was changed to a high potash feed once they started to heart up in March.

Source: Telepraph