The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing

The advice that Fortey gave Snoop at the time was to use mycorrhizal fungi. That’s not in this article, but they did a video at that time showing the meeting.

If anyone has any questions on mycorrhizal fungi, ask away. It’s really an underappreciated part of our ecosystem and should probably factor into any solution to climate change as they’re also largely responsible for sequestering carbon into the soil.

Yes! I came to mention this tradition exists in Alaska as well, you beat me to it :) That’s a good article. We visited Alaska for the first time last year. I was hoping to go the the fair and see these monsters, but it was unfortunately canceled because of COVID.

> "The winning specimens are donated to the animals at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center"

Said enough

'Curse of the were rabbit' is my favourite Christmas Day movie. "Kiss my arrrrtichoke".

Brilliant film.

One of my favourite things I've ever seen online was something calling Mark Kermode pretentious, when his favourite film one year was almost the Shaun the sheep movie.

Yeah, the author must have a rather vigorous definition of gently. Something like being polite on the dueling grounds, perhaps?

Struggling with the accent perhaps...