Growing our own vegetables in our kitchen garden has become quite a common pastime in the post-pandemic era. It requires plenty of patience, dedication and attention to detail to grow the vegetables ourselves. And sometimes, the forces of nature endow us with larger-than-life results! We have read several news reports where the farmers grew vegetables larger than normal. Farming enthusiasts were recently surprised to read about a Japanese company that grew the heaviest radish and bagged a Guinness World Record for the same.
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The video was shared by the official handle of Guinness World Records on Instagram. Since the time it was posted, it has received over 650k views and 35k likes. The heaviest radish was grown by a Japanese company named Manda Fermentation Co. Ltd. "Manda Fermentation Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer of supplements and special fertilisers made from fermented botanical raw ingredients, and they grow giant radishes every year using their technology," read the official website.
While usually, radishes take about three months to harvest, this particular radish was harvested after a whopping six months. It was verified at HAKKO Park in Onomichi, Hiroshima on February 22, 2023. As for the dimensions of the heaviest radish, it has a circumference of 113cm with a root length of 80 cm. Further, it weighs a whopping 45.865 kgs at the time of the world record.
This is not the only giant vegetable to have broken records. Previously, a New York farmer set a record for growing the world's largest pumpkin. Can you guess how much it weighed? Click here to read more about it.