
A giant pumpkin weighing more than 1,000kg has broken the UK record. It was so big it needed a forklift to put on the scales at an exhibition.

Stuart and Ian Paton officially set a record at the Autumn Pumpkin Festival at Netley, Southampton, England, after planting a giant pumpkin weighing over a ton, Long Room reported.

At Netley Pumpkin Festival (Hampshire, England), two twins Stuart and Ian Paton crushed competitors with a pumpkin weighing 1,022kg, or more than 1 ton.

Pumpkin has just won the largest record in the UK, weighing more than 854kg.

The heaviest pumpkin in Australia and New Zealand has a volume of up to 743kg.

The twins Ian Paton and Stuart Paton have just released a giant pumpkin masterpiece weighing nearly 1 ton, causing a fever in England.

Chatting with regular trees is one of the measures a British gardener makes to create pumpkins with a mass of more than 140kg and bigger than an armchair.