Farmer, 60, grows the heaviest cucumber ever

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-08-05 09:40

A 60-year-old farmer in Shandong province has harvested a cucumber that weighs 3.75 kg.

The average Chinese cucumber weighs about 250 grams.

"This is the biggest and the heaviest cucumber I have ever seen," Ma, the farmer from Caishi village in Jinan, said.

Ma said he had not used any fertilizer except animal dung at his farm.

(Life Daily)