Day 6: A local record-breaker

Peter Glazebrook grew the heaviest potato weighs 4.99 kg recorded on 4th September 2011 and was grown in his garden near Newark in Nottinghamshire.

The keen vegetable grower said his passion for "monsters" came from trying to win prizes at his local garden show in Southwell.

The gardener does not just grow huge potatoes but all sorts of big vegetables in his back garden.

He has held ten world records including the heaviest parsnip and the longest beetroot.

Colleen is an Irish variety and the seed potatoes are very high yielding.

Great uniform tuber shape making them ideal boiled potatoes.

Short oval shape with yellow skin and creamy yellow flesh and shallow eyes.

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