World’s longest cucumber

The fight is on for the title of world’s longest cucumber.

Guinness World of Records have just released the 2011 edition of their famous book, and in it Frank Dimmock of Oxfordshire is listed as the grower of the world’s longest cucumber, a 1048mm long fruit grown two years ago.

Well a new player has stepped up to be counted, 78-year-old grandmother Clare Pearce from Cambridgeshire claims to have grown not one but two mammoth cucumbers. Mrs Pearce planted her cucumbers in May and they grew to enormous proportions by August when the largest cucumber ripened and fell from it’s vine. The lanky fruit measured a remarkable 1194mm in straight line, but a further 100mm could be added if you included the curvature of the fruit.

Mrs Pearce knew the cucumber was something of a whopper, but sadly the rotting fruit had to be chopped up and disposed of before it could be officially verified by Guinness World of Records. However all is not lost, because Mrs Pearce has a second cucumber which measuring 1067mm is still 19mm longer than Frank Dimmock’s. Mrs Pearce is currently having her lengthy harvest verified by a horticulturist.

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