Pumpkin farmer Peet Joubert has won the Transvaalse Landbou-Unie’s annual Goliat van Gat Pumpkin Festival for the second time in two years.
Festival organiser Henri Combrink said he was disappointed in the number of entries this year but said the November rains had made it extremely hard for growers and many crops had died.The union donates all entered pumpkins to welfare organisations to feed the needy.
Walkerville Agricultural Show where he will enter Wallie, which he believes may be 450kg.He said many farmers had lost their produce from root rot as a result.The world record pumpkin is 1,190kg, held by German Mathias Willemijns, It was recorded at the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on October 9 2016.
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