An Ontario man’s gardening skills might have other gardeners green with envy as one of his vegetables could be the longest in the world.
While Henry D’Angela’s garden in Thorold, Ont., is filled with a variety of produce from tomatoes to fresh herbs, it is his Sicilian zucchini that might squash a world record.
“When this zucchini became very long I thought, ‘Oh, I wonder what the record is,’ and I saw the record, and I knew it was close,” D’Angela said. The current title holder is Giovanni Batista Scozzafava in Niagara Falls, who broke the record about nine years ago in Aug. 28, 2014 at 8 feet and 3.3 inches. D’Angela’s is measured at 8 feet 4.79 inches.
The city councillor says he became an avid gardener at the same time he became a homeowner, gaining his green thumb from his parents who always had a flourishing garden. D’Angela says he doesn’t do “anything special” for his – he cultivates the soil and uses a manure mixture in the springtime. For his zucchinis, D’Angela said he grew them along the side of his house, which faces south, in a little strip that typically hosts his sunflowers and tomatoes – a first for him. He hung the zucchini on a manmade trellis to keep them off the ground, although he had to add a makeshift wooden support to lift it up even further so it could keep growing.“This year, none of my tomatoes grew.
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