Is anyone else finding the vegetables they are growing are turning into GIANTS? Seriously.

Same here op. i am in western oregon, bout 50 miles from the coast. i have been growing a garden for years and this year my radishes are about almost baseball size. these are the first of my crops to show but i am getting an inkling that they may all be in for some bigger growth.

Maybe it's all that heavy metal raining down? Maybe it's all the rain the west coast has had?
I don't grow crops, but it's pretty cool when they get giant right?

Gods takin care of the food shortage. Praise GOD

Yes-

Medford here hopeing my ganga gets huge too...

Yes, I live south of Houston and my son has a garden. Last week he brought me a zucchini that was huge. I couldn't believe it was so big. I had never seen a zucchini so big, it was giant!

Z

It can't be the rain because we haven't had rain here in south Texas since he started growing his garden. Jus sayin'

what is a giant vegetable for you?

Southern NM is dry as well on into AZ were a fire the size of the state of Rhode Island is burning out of control. There are other fires down into Mexico. Drought.

The climate is changing all around us,...

Apparently.

Z

they said that the sun was doing some weird things to atoms on the earth, and i thought, "wow, maybe things will mutate and get bigger."

of course, we may end up with more cancer, too.

Didn't anyone here watch Gilligan's Island?

If you did, then you know that megavegetables are from radiation.

Fukishima, anyone?!

I'm in the Carolinas and I have noticed the garden is coming along much quicker than usual. My first set of turnips are just about ready but I am going to leave them alone until their regular picking time to see if they get huge. Cucumbers are growing very quickly too.

I planted another dozen tomato seeds just because I found them on the shed table. I soaked them last Thurs., put them in soil on Fri., and 5 of them were sprouting Sun. morning!

All but 1 are up and growing, last one will probably be up tomorrow.

It's going to be an interesting summer.

It's the radiation. We had this phenomenon in the South of Germany after Chernobyl.

My nuts are huge!!!!!!!!

If these stories are true, very concerning.

Also reports of normally thriving plants wilting and dying due to strange, excessive heat.


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I'm in the Puget Sound area and we've had a delayed spring... lots of rain and cool temps. This week is mixed light rain and sun and warmer.

Put in some Giant Oriental Spinach and it just took off wonderfully! Of course, this is the first year we've tried it, so I don't know if it's unusually large.

Snow peas are tall but no blooms yet. Sugar snap peas are hardy looking. Potatoes are really leafy, and tomatoes keep getting eaten by something. The plants, since they haven't even come into bloom either.

Will have to keep on the lookout for other fast growers.

Thanks for the replies so far everyone, very interesting.

Here's a local example. A farmer not far from me has had his beets grow into 17-20 KG specimens! He doesn't know why.

We've been getting VERY large parsnips, carrots, courgettes/zucchini and leeks amongst other things, but mostly root vegetables.

Another farmer down from us whose grown carrots for years sudddenly has a field of GIANT carrots - 2 to 3 times the size they would normally be.

Really strange stuff.

Why are all of the watermelons I see at the store so small then?

Our potatoes all have extra eyes this year. We think it's because of the fallout from Fukushima.

Isn't it winter there in New Zealand?

Oh shit, I forgot to mention - our corn is coming in with extra ears also.

VERY freaky.

A local farmer was selling giant watermelons from his truck yesterday!

Damn! I missed those lol

I had gigantic Zuchini Squash growing in my garden, but my tomatoes and eggplant seemed appropriate size.

At the local tiny farmers market, we saw very large zuchinis and pumpkins. Seems like squash is affected whatever it is.

at an asian store in chinatown boston, i found the hugest carrots i've ever seen. over a foot long, diameter of 4 inches! i thought they couldn't be carrots, but yes they were. this was several years ago, and i wondered the same thing too; if these were sold in chain grocery stores, all you'd need to buy is one, no packaging, less cost. maybe they were grown in radiation zones too.

How are you growing vegetables in the wintertime, OP?

I have a big garden here in Michigan, all the plants are doing well. But nothing to brag about.

LEGION

last year nothing grew here in S.E. oklahoma. I added a lot rabbit manure and now my tomato plants are doing very well. Not sure what the tomatoes will be like yet.

I'm in NZ AC. We can still grow lots of things through the winter in lots of places here.