You've probably been asking yourselves...

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"I wonder what the world's largest cabbage ever looks like." Well, wonder no longer, my friends. Feast your eyes on this giant coleslaw. It weighs 125.9 pounds, with a head measuring 21 inches across and leaf span of about five feet. It holds the Guinness world record. http://www.adn.com/front/story/920747.html



Here are the world record-setting rutabagas mentioned in the news article. Also a very large beet weighing 24.385 pounds.


A little whimsy

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1. Wasilla whopper has leaves that span about five feet!!!!

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2. Amazingly,

the same grower brought in a cabbage yesterday that at 127 pounds broke even this record. It didn't have as big a head as this one, but had several smaller heads around the main one that boosted its weight. Here are photos from the newspaper.

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3. How do they do it?

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4. Special seeds and lots of TLC.

They tend to them like they're babies, just the right amount of water and fertilizer. One grower even rigged up water-cooled fans for his cabbages so they wouldn't get too warm on hot days. I think it's really quite an art, and, of course, the 20 hours of sunlight per day at the beginning of summer doesn't hurt.