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A Friendly Biggest Veg competition

Why didn’t I think of this before!? I’m sorry if I’m posting this at the wrong time for the southern gardeners who might be already seeing summer decline, but post if you want to show off your biggest veg from the garden. :-()

• Photo of veg with relative size or weight scale such as
— accurate weight with display clearly visible
— ruler, soda can or other commonly recognizable relative dimension

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1lb 3.6 ounces Big Beef tomato we ate several already. I pick them when they are totally red then leave them in the kitchen 3 days they get sweeter with a better tomato flavor. Fertilize with wood ash.

4.4 ounce Russet Potato is the only large 1 we have left. There were 5 slightly larger we cooked them for baking potatoes.

6.2 ounce Kennebec is our largest so far not sure why I dug this 1 up early. 2 rows of Kennebec have not been dug up yet.

2.9 ounce Intermediate day onion is probably our largest there were not very many this size most were 40% to 60% smaller.

2.0 ounce Garlic is probably the largest, there was only 2 or 3 this size, most were much smaller.

0.0 ounce Raspberry scales says it weights a whole nothing, LOL. There was several larger than this but they are gone, this 1 is the typical size.
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None of my stuff got very big this year; does stuff from last year count? 😆 I had some Mr. Stripeys and German Greens that got over 1lb.

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The year and growing seasons are not over yet! :()

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OK! Gary350 has us off to a great start! :-()

This morning, the biggest Triple Crown Blackberry I picked was 8 grams :wink:
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My biggest tomato so far is a ‘Wes’ 1 Lbs. 1.3 oz
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Great contest. Most of my biggest veg would be overgrown, but if that doesn't count I can still play.

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Well my corn is as high as an elephant's eye and it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

https://tinyurl.com/3wdamytt

(Don't know what this errant Canadian is doing, riding around Oklahoma like he owns the place).

Anyway ... I've only got 3 stalks - all that germinated out of 18 old seeds; but I hope to hand pollinate & harvest new (Golden Bantam) seed for next year.

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My black currants are bigger than average.
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This is about as big as Tabasco peppers get. Little peppers with a big flavor. My scales show it is ZERO ounces.
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I was surprised to find these two out there today - I've been looking lately, but not closely, due to this horrible heat! And now I know, heat doesn't seem to bother these! They were lost in those vines. I found 4 smaller ones, which I put on top, so as not to let those get so large.
ImageBottle gourds, about 23 inches long, 68 and 72 ounces. 8-15 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

ImageThe larger of the bottle gourds. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

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7 Lb 9 oz Jubilee Watermelon from Vegetable Garden SIP
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…Cradling it in the crook of my arm and making my way back to the patio, I was saying to myself “I feel like I’m carrying a baby….” :>



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