A home gardener from Ontario, Canada, harvested an 8-foot, 4.79-inch zucchini in his garden and it could be the longest on record.
Henry D’Angela applied to Guinness World Records to get the giant vegetable certified as the longest in the world.
“I didn’t start growing for the longest time,” D’Angela told ThoroldToday. “It happened to be in a new area that I had never planted before. The soil has done very well for him. It’s great.”
D’Angela, who hails from the town of Thorold, about 30 miles west of Niagara Falls, started growing zucchini a decade ago.
He told the outlet that the secret to his success is “I feel a lot of water. And I put fertilizer at the base.
It also doesn’t hurt that the Thorold region gets more than 15 hours of daylight at the height of summer, giving plants extra time to grow.
Canadian home gardener Henry D’Angela may have grown the largest zucchini on record.CHCH News/YouTube The 8-foot, 4.79-inch vegetable was harvested in Thorold, Canada.CHCH News/YouTube D’Angela currently keeps the zucchini safe in his garage. CHCH News/YouTube
The current longest zucchini record holder, John Giovanni Scozzafavain of Niagara Falls, took home the title in 2014 for one that reached 8 feet and 3.3 inches.
While she waits to hear back from the record books, D’Angela keeps the zucchini safe in her garage.
“When they open the farmers market in Thorold next year, I have to bring this as something new,” said D’Angela, who serves on the community’s City Council. “So Thorold can be known as having the world’s largest zucchini.”
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