Picture: BROOKE LITTLEWOOD
MOVE over James and The Giant Peach, it is all about Kangaroo Inn Area School and the giant zucchini.
Students will enjoy zucchini slice and fritters galore after they returned from school holidays and discovered their vegetable garden had birthed a number of monstrous courgette.
Students and teachers used their problem solving skills to weigh the biggest vegetable of the batch after an error code appeared on the kitchen scales.
Using rope to tie the zucchini and a 10 litre bucket of water over a metal bar the group were able to determine roughly how many kilograms it weighed.
The zucchini weighed around seven kilograms and was 90cm in length.
Students Max Holland and Charlotte Ballantyne said there were a number of secrets to growing gigantic vegetables.
“We let them grow and grow and grow without picking them so they get really big,” Charlotte said.
“You give them water, make sure the snails do not get to them, grow them in good, deep soil and surround them with hay to protect the roots from getting too hot and keep them damp.”
Max added the school would probably use the vegetable to make zucchini fritters.
“We planted them before the school holidays,” he said.
“Now they’re bigger than me.
“We have made zucchini slice with them before, it was delicious.
“This is the biggest zucchini I have ever seen.”
With carrots, tomatoes, sugar snap peas and corn growing students are left to wonder what giant vegetable will grow next.
