Peter Glazebrook
Vegetable grower in England
About Peter Glazebrook
Peter Glazebrook was a vegetable grower.
Peter Glazebrook is a retired surveyor who later became a vegetable grower from Halam in Nottinghamshire, England.
He held 15 world records over a 29-year career, including the longest beetroot and parsnip, and the heaviest onion, potato, cauliflower, and bell pepper, as well as the largest runner bean leaf. The world’s longest beetroot and parsnip measured and respectively; the world’s heaviest onion weighed potato, and the cauliflower, which weighs and is in diameter.
From 2014 until September 2017, Glazebrook also held the world record for the heaviest carrot, weighing in at . Glazebrook also lost his world record for the heaviest tomato to Douglas Smith.
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