Daniel Tomelin’s garden is small, but it may have produced a record-breaking fruit.
The Kelowna resident’s pride and joy is a cucumber that measures a whopping 44.5 inches, which he believes makes it primed to shatter the Guinness World Record.
“I thought it was a pretty big cucumber and then I went online and started digging,” Tomelin said. “A fellow had one at 41-and-a-half inches, and mine was 42-and-a-half inches at that time so I thought what the heck and I entered it with Guinness.”
The secret to the enormous growth, according to Tomelin, is all in the soil he created by putting down a massive layer of leaves and letting nature do the rest.
The result: a bountiful super-soil with worms galore.
Third-party experts still have to certify the cucumber’s size, but it does appear to be a solid three inches in the clear.
The big cucumber is expected to make the Guinness list in the coming weeks, but Tomelin said it has to happen quickly because he has big plans for it.
“I’m going to turn it into a pickle so I’ll have the world’s largest pickle as well,” he said.
With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Kent Molgat
