Big pumpkin squashes the competition
A Dorset gardener has grown the UK's heaviest pumpkin.
Giant pumpkin squashes the competition
A Dorset gardener has grown the UK's heaviest pumpkin.
Mark Baggs from Wareham managed to grow a pumpkin which weighed in at 1,520lb (689kg).
At a weigh-in at the weekend, Mark's pumpkin tipped the scales and beat the previous record by 16lb (7.3kg).
The record for the world's heaviest pumpkin was set on 15 October 2011 in Ontario, Canada with one weighing in at 1,818lb and 5oz (824.86kg).
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