Niagara Falls: Man’s eight-foot squash could be a record-breaker
“They usually only grow to about three or four feet,” he said of the Sicilian zucchini he planted this year for just the second time.
But as zucchinis go, and this one is still growing, it turns out Scozzafava might have a record-breaker on his hands.
You can’t miss it. There among the crops of tomatoes, beans, peppers and eggplant it stands. A zucchini that measures in at eight feet, two inches, a full four inches more than the current record of 7’10”. In fact, Scozzafava has tied off the supersized summer squash to prevent it from breaking from the plant to which it is attached.
The longest zucchini on record was grown by Gurdial Singh Kanwal in his garden in Brampton, Ont., according to Guinness. That record has stood since 2005.
“My daughter (Rosemarie) has contacted the (Guinness) record people,” Scozzafava said. “They said for us to take some photos.”
Scozzafava said he didn’t really do anything special to cultivate such a vegetable behemoth.
“I used no fertilizer, no manure — nothing,” he said.
And this isn’t the first time he’s yielded an above average specimen from his zucchini crop.
“The longest one last year was six feet,” Scozzafava said. “We’re improving.”
Source: niagarathisweek.com
