World Record Holder Reveals 5 Secrets to Growing Giant Vegetables

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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ interviews Kevin and Ian who are from the UK abour growing Guiness Book of World Record Vegetables. In this episode, you will learn the top 5 tips on how tou can start to grow the largest vegetables so you can win vegetable competitions. In this episode, John will ask the following questions: 01:48 How did you get into growing giant vegetables? 04:04 What Giant Vegetable World Records do you hold? 04:50 Can you eat the Giant Vegetables you grow? 07:00 Are the World Record Giant Vegetable Growers using Organic or Conventional/Chemical Growing methods? 09:14 What happened when you went to the hospital? 10:04 Do you fertilizer your plants with urine? 10:20 Why do you start growing giant vegetables? 13:40 What are the 5 Tips to Grow Giant Vegetables ? 19:32 How can someone purchase your Giant Vegetable Seeds? 20:46 What are the best tips to grow Giant vegetables organically? 26:10 Any final tips or comments for my viewers today? Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch all 1200+ Episodes from GrowingYourGreens at https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Learn more about Giant Veg at: http://www.facebook.com/Groups/GiantVegetableCommunity http://www.youtube.com/GiantVeg http://www.facebook.com/GiantVegCommunity http://www.giantveg.co.uk/

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Lol...peed myself at John's confusion when Ian mentioned his wee. Lost in translation haha. Thanks for the tips folks and well done on all the records.

I'm being a little bit picky here but aren't pumpkins fruit?

oh noooo nute burn!!

Real nice to see keeping the tradition growing, ha. nice vid john.

lol, u look like small pumpkin between two big pumpkins *_-, love ur videos man.

I love your growing videos most, but these interviews and tours are pretty cool too. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks Ian for the advice on going to lectures to learn stuff! I've just joined a garden club in San Diego, California. Hopefully, the lectures and networking will help. Thank you to Kevin and John too! Really good discussion!

hi john do you know of any organic pesticide products that I can feed directly to my plants so when bugs start to feed on the plants the bugs eat the pesticide and as result stop feeding on the plants...hope that makes sense thanks from uk.

secrets: go to 5:40

So did Ian give Snoop Dogg some good tips for growing GIANT plants?

sorry guys it's www.facebook.com/groups/giantvegetablecommunity Thanks for the interview John. great event and a great welcome we both had in the USA. thanks also to Baker Creek Seed Company for their amazing welcome to the event

I really enjoyed their perspective - so modest and soft-spoken. Love how this is a "sport" and their passion for it coming from something that they started doing as children and how it grew into a sport hobby.
5 tips I got out of it -- for growing big:
1. seeds
2. watch the feed
3. mix of organic & inorganic
4. ask others for advice or even seeds
5. open to knowledge

I'm here in the desert and really inspired by you to "fight the system" and grow our own food - spreading the love to my children. Had someone recently who lives out here - with a PhD in entomology - tell me that vegetable gardening was not environmentally sound. That was the reason why she just plants ornamentals. I told her that it may not be something that she is willing to spend her time on, that it was very time consuming initially, but it was very worth it. Totally ignored her environmental reasoning - completely mind-boggling.

Not too concern about organic in UK. Most still unaware much about GMO yet.

its all about rock dust and seaweed....however im doing great with cumfree

i thought they used chemical fertilizers.

Great vid, love these guys!

Johns facial expression when he heard NPK!!

i see, end of interview! lol

That shirt Ian is wearing is OFF THE CHAIN!! :-D
Love it.

I think growing a big veggie for fun would generate a lot of interest, especially for little kids. The same way super tall sunflowers interest kids. It would be a good way for school garden programs to get local publicity and maybe even enter a contest if they grow one big enough.