A pumpkin grown by a woman in her backyard in Liaoyang of Liaoning Province grew so big that she had to ask two men to pick it off its vine and move it into her kitchen.

Weighing 36 kilograms, the 0.7 metre-high pumpkin measures 1 metre round its waist.

The woman wants her guests to feast on the huge pumpkin in a ceremony to be held this week for her newly bought house.

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