365Telugu.com Online News, September 17th, 2023: The Giant Onion, Yorkshire: There is a book called ‘The Giant Cabbage’. Cheri B. This book by Cheri B. Stihler is based on an Alaskan folktale.
It is only the magic of the author’s pen. Some people think that nothing like that actually happens. But many things are possible in this colorful world.
One such fact is that recently a farmer grew the heaviest onion. Let’s know the complete fact about this special onion..
A show called Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Yorkshire, England is held twice a year in the months of April and September.
This year’s second season is being held in a garden at Mowby Hall, near Ripon, North Yorkshire.
The show, which started on September 15, will be the last day on Sunday, September 17. Meanwhile, many special features were seen in this show. But the most special thing is the onion.
This onion is not only a topic of discussion in the show but its photo which is going viral on social media is raising curiosity whether it is real or not. No. It can happen.
Now let’s find out what is special about this onion.
Until now, you might have seen onions weighing around 100 to 150 grams or up to 300 grams.
But you will be surprised to know that this onion weighs 8 kg 970 grams. The big deal is that this giant onion was grown by Guernsey resident Gareth Griffin for the ‘National English Honor Society’ (NEHS) Giant Vegetable Competition.
Although other vegetables such as cabbage, cucumber, pumpkin, beetroot and carrot also made a huge appearance in this show, they all weighed less than this onion which weighed around 9 kg.
Seeing such a big onion, the organizers of the show hoped that it would become a world record, but a photo of farmer Gareth Griffin holding it is going viral on social media.
The photo, posted on the show’s official Instagram page @harrogateflowershow, has received 86 likes so far. Various comments are also coming on this. Netizens are reacting differently to this onion.