Canadian gardener has officially become a Guinness World Record holder for the 29-kilogram turnip he unearthed last year in November.
A gardener named Damien Allard hails from Gaspé city in Canada’s Quebec province became Guinness World Record holder after crushing the previous 2014 record of a 17.7-kilogram turnip, weighing roughly as much as an adult husky or a 65-inch television.
The turnip has a circumference of 138 centimetres, a height of 35 centimetres. His turnip nearly broke the existing record in 2018 with a 15.5-kilogram vegetable, however, fell about two kilograms shy of a win. Last year, officials and journalists attended Allard’s November harvest to verify his latest contender’s weight and size.
Allard actually broke the previous record with a total of three turnips, the Guinness site said, with the other two turnips weighing in at 22.9 and 24.4 kilograms and a width of 46 centimetres.
