Tony Glover has smashed the existing record
for his whopping vegetable, which weighs an
eye-watering 18lbs and 11oz and measures 32
inches around its widest part.
When recipes call for a large onion, on average
they mean around 12 ounces. But Mr Glover’s
whopper was almost 25 times that size.
If he wanted to, the amateur gardener from
Small Heath in Moira, south Derbyshire, could
use his enormous haul to cater for a huge
number of people.
That one onion is large enough to make 250
onion bhajees, French onion soup for 36
people or 50 portions of onion rings!
Mr Glover, who has his own business which
produces hand-crafted snooker cues, beat the
existing record held by Peter Glazebrook from
Newark in Nottinghamshire by 10 ounces.
He said: "I've been growing vegetables since I
was about 16. I used to do it with my dad.”
The onion grew in Mr Glover’s back garden. He
added: "Back then if you could grow one to be
5lbs you had done very well, so I'm very happy
with the one I've grown this year."
Producing a record-breaking onion is not
simply down to luck and the right weather
conditions. Mr Glover revealed that a lot of
hard work went into it too.
"I planted this one in October last year,” he
said.
"It has been growing in my greenhouse which
is heated during the winter and cooled in the
summer.
"I've also got grow lights fitted to it inside to
simulate the sun when the days get shorter or
when the weather isn't very good.
"I feed them with a high nitrogen-based food
and have to make sure the humidity is just
right."
Tempting as it may sound, Mr Glover is not
planning to throw the onion-based dinner
party just yet. Instead he plans to use the
seeds from his big onion to grow an even
bigger and heavier one next year.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/512305/Briton-Guinness-World-Record-Onion#4_3,2_

this is really big? The land is really fertile.

Wow!

At the end of the day unko? Inside soup lo da