Giant veg will amaze you!

I wonder if they have any taste to them. Also, reading the comments, they take an immense amount of water, which might otherwise have grown a number of veg. Still, if the massive veg has some taste, that balances out - but would you manage to eat it before it went rotten?

I was pleased to see sunflowers in the competition. I wouldn't mind growing them to a huge size. 

I always think the same, would they be all woody and inedible and what would you do with it all? The size of some of those pumpkins you could keep a food bank in pumpkin soup for a month.

For some reason I'v always thought of growing giant and other show veg and flowers as a male thing, maybe its because whenever I see them featured it's always older men who've grown them?

TheCatWoman said:

For some reason I'v always thought of growing giant and other show veg and flowers as a male thing, maybe its because whenever I see them featured it's always older men who've grown them?

I hdan't thought about that but the winners are all men. It must be a middel-aged willy-waving contest: "Mine is bigger than yours!" 

Taken from the linked article:

Maggie Walter, from Plymouth, took home a £1,000 prize after her 3.95kg (8.7lb) aubergine was judged the heaviest.

She said she "never expected" to win and described the victory as a "nice surprise all round".

Taken from the linked article:

Maggie Walter, from Plymouth, took home a £1,000 prize after her 3.95kg (8.7lb) aubergine was judged the heaviest.

She said she "never expected" to win and described the victory as a "nice surprise all round".