Peter Glazebrook grew the gigantic vegetable in his greenhouse in Newark

Apr 28, 2014 17:17 GMT  ·  By

A Nottinghamshire man entered the Guiness Book of World Records a fifth time last week after growing a colossal cauliflower weighing no less than 60 pounds (27 kg).

Peter Glazebrook grew the gigantic vegetable, which is of the Darwin variety and is 20 times heavier than normal size, in his greenhouse in Newark, East Midlands.

It is his fifth vegetable-growing record, as the 69-year-old man also holds records for the longest beetroot and parsnip (21ft/6.4m and 19ft/5.7m), the heaviest onion (18lb/8kg), and the heaviest potato (11lb/5kg).

According to the Daily Mail, a team of seven adjudicators visited Peter's greenhouse and concluded the massive cauliflower was the new record holder, as it surpassed the previous one, set by Alan Hattersley from Sheffield in 1999, by 6.6lb (3kg). They also determined that the gigantic plant was six feet (1.82 meters) wide.

“The weighing was conducted at my home because there were no vegetable shows at this time of year. My previous effort last year was weakened by the long cold snap that hit most of the UK,” Mr. Glazebrook said.

The champion grower says he nurtured the vegetable in his greenhouse since last July and fed it calcium nitrate to strengthen it.

He and his wife Mary chopped the plant in smaller chunks so it could be frozen for meals.