Hopefully, hobby gardener Jimmy Hill's neighbors love cabbage. He, in any case, promises to share with them the monster vegetables
The 53-year-old Hill has grown several monstrously huge vegetables, the largest of which - cabbage - is more than one and a half meters in diameter and weighs 40 kilograms.
A mechanic by trade, Hill enthusiastically grows onions, carrots and cucumbers in the backyard of his home in Weston Super Mare, Somerset.
This is not the first harvest of giant vegetables, in previous years, he and his wife Jackie already lacked the imagination to come up with new dishes.
“I love vegetables and my wife is a wonderful cook, but I must admit that we cannot eat so much, I think we will give part of the harvest to our neighbors. By the way, they say that I should show my achievements at the fair, but for me it's just a hobby,”the vegetable grower admits.
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Earlier in Britain, the hottest peppers in the world were grown. Grown in the commercial town of Grangham in the English county of Lincolnshire, the infinity pepper was found to be sharper than the previous record holder, jolocia, the Indian town of Assam. Researchers at the University of Warwick analyzed the flavor of the infinity and assigned it a pungency of 1,067,287 on the Scoville scale. For comparison: the spiciness of buta jolokia is 1,041,427 points, and the famous jalapeno pepper does not exceed 5,000.
The Chilean from Lincolnshire has been awarded the title of champion for his “never-ending burning sensation” that cannot be neutralized even with the best antidote - milk. According to Woody Woods, a 37-year-old Briton who grows Infinity, eating this variety feels like swallowing a red-hot coal. In addition, the gardener adds, he is surprised that such a hot pepper could be grown in the mild climate of Great Britain. Woods and his wife raised the Infinity by crossing several species and hope to bring the results of their labors to the market later this year.
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