Giant Vegetables
Size does matter in the Canna UK National Giant Vegetables Championship. A firm favourite each year, you won’t believe your eyes at the size of the fruit and vegetables on display.

CANNA UK National Giant Vegetable Championships 2024
Click here for the 2024 results
12 Guinness World Records and 2 UK/EU records were awarded in 2024!
- Heaviest Sunflower head – Peter Glazebrook 7.046kg
- Longest Broad Bean – James Brown 455mm
- Heaviest Celeriac – Graham Barrett 6.330kg
- Longest Turnip – Joe Atherton 4929mm
- Heaviest Runner Bean – M.Enstone 0.254kg
- Heaviest Red Cabbage – Chris Evans 33kg
- Longest Leek – Peter Glazebrook 1582mm
- Longest aubergine – Kevin Fortey – 0410mm
- Tallest Cucumber Plant – Kevin Fortey 6497mm
- Heavy Pepper – Ian Neale, 0.966kg
- Longest radish – Joe Atherton 7410mm
- Heaviest Khoi Rabi – Chris Marriott 47kg
UK and European records
- Heaviest Radish – Paul Rochester 20.122kg
- Heaviest Cantaloupe Melon – Douglas Smith – 27.6kg
Enter a world of monstrous legumes, larger than life fruits and hefty roots. Rivalry between competitors is always fierce with super-sized and often record breaking celery, leek, parsnip and cabbages.
Junior growers who have also caught the bug take part in classes for giant sunflower heads.
Visitors interested in finding more about how to grow sizable vegetables are advised to stop by CANNA and chat to their knowledgeable team, you will find them in the Giant Vegetables Hall.
Adjudicators and representatives from the Guinness World Records attend the championship each year and we see many world records broken for the heaviest or the longest vegetables.
The 2024 competition was held in the newly built indoor Kildare Hall for the first and there was a new class heaviest cantaloupe melon, with a whopping £1,000 of prize money for the winner!
Pumpkin Patch
There was a brand-new pumpkin patch in 2024, complete with selfie station so you can capture your seasonal pumpkin snaps!