The winner of the 2014 Giant Cabbage Weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair tipped the scale at almost 118 pounds.
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A cabbage plant that weighs over 100 pound is a big deal , but keep an eye on it get count is even bigger . At the annual Giant Cabbage Weigh - off at the Alaska State Fair , masses came from K of miles aside to see if a new humankind record would be fix .
newsperson from the British Broadcasting Corporation , the national broadcasting web in Japan , The Food connection , HGTV and local TV and newspapers gathered in the Farm Exhibits construction in late August to beguile the event for their interview . A hot Internet provender was also broadcast to spectator as far away as Australia .
Steve Hubacek of Wasilla was this year ’s succeeder with his 117.95 scratch he name Marmaduke . 2nd place went to Scott Robb of Palmer for Gorgeous George , weighing 113.7 pounds . Robb is the holder of the Giant Cabbage humankind record for the 138.25 - muller he grew in 2012 .
There were 22 entire entrants in the competition , one of the more newsworthy events oblige in Palmer each class . Garrett Streit grew the next-to-last winner , Framagio , that weighed in at 68.3 pounds .
The growers in Alaska ’s Matanuska - Susitna ( Mat - Su ) Valley take advantage of the area ’s fecund dirt and 20 hours of cheer each day in early summer to uprise their jumbo dough .
But it takes aconcentrated effortand many hour spent tinkering with the growing environs , plant food and watering organization to get cabbage plants to grow to over 100 pound .
Cabbages that get to be that size have some similar characteristics . The seed have to be genetically capable of growing big , the industrial plant ask to have a really big basis , big leaf ( weighing several Pound each ) , a immense , firm head and lots of poufs or small chou raise within the large leaves .
It ’s also practiced to get a little help from the Cabbage Fairies . A sprinkling of witching faggot dust while plant are growing is say to give these giants an supererogatory hike .
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The work of Cabbage Fairies may have helped Steve Hubacek grow the giant cabbage winner at the 2014 Alaska State Fair.Photo/Illustration: Jodi Torpey
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