Twin brothers going for pumpkin world record

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Pictured : Martha Syrett, 2, with one of her grandad's giant pumpkins which has been grown at Pinetops Nursery in Hampshire.<br />
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Pumpkin grower Ian Paton is celebrating after his supersized squashes grew to their largest ever size.<br />
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Each one of his six pumpkins, cultivated at Pinetops Nursery in Hampshire, grew at an astonishing 50lbs a day for three weeks, guzzling 150 gallons of water a day before weighing in excess of 2000lbs - more than a Smart car.<br />
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The largest pumpkin measured just shy of a staggering 20 feet in circumference.<br />
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Pictured : Martha Syrett, 2, with one of her grandad's giant pumpkins which has been grown at Pinetops Nursery in Hampshire.

Pumpkin grower Ian Paton is celebrating after his supersized squashes grew to their largest ever size.

Each one of his six pumpkins, cultivated at Pinetops Nursery in Hampshire, grew at an astonishing 50lbs a day for three weeks, guzzling 150 gallons of water a day before weighing in excess of 2000lbs - more than a Smart car.

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