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We grow giant marrows, four foot in a month.

45 inches.

These marrows would taste exactly the same

as a normal marrow.

Nice and tender and lush.

Some of them look a bit tough,

but once you cut into them, they cut like butter.

My name is Phillip Vowles.

I live in Llanharry, Wales and I grow giant vegetables.

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I've been growing giant vegetables now

for the last 30 years.

I come from a very large family.

My mother had 17 children.

13 of us survived, and I think, you know, that was something, you know,

big vegetables feed big families.

You know, I'm up here every morning, every night,

every single day of the week.

There's a lot of love and care goes into it.

Sometimes I do a bit of talking to them as well

to encourage them to grow

which is a bit of, you know, a bit of fun.

I think he's just about finished growing there now.

I got to be very careful the wife is not about

when I start talking to my vegetables,

but it's all good fun.

I broke the world record for the heaviest cucumber

what, 25 years ago.

It weighed 18 1/2 pound and it was just incredible

the way it grew.

When I started, if we had a marrow 20, 30 pound in weight,

you had a big marrow.

Now, we're up over a 100 pound in weight.

A normal cabbage would be two pound in weight,

but we're growing 'em 120 pound.

You know, you can feed 120, 130, 140 people off one cabbage.

This is why I supply the local pub,

and they use 'em up for Sunday lunch.

I've developed my own strain, more or less, now.

I select my own seed every year,

the biggest and the best seed,

and it just seems to be improving which is incredible.

I grow organically.

I had to think, if I can do it, anybody can do it,

and it's a big thrill every day.

The wife say, \"What am I doing up the lot every day?\"

And when she comes up she realize.