Food / East Coast

The piano-sized pumpkin

13:34 pm on 16 April 2019

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The Bushmere Arms Giant Pumpkin festival took place in Gisborne over the weekend - and Kaiaponi Farms general manager Scott Wilson took out the top prize with a pumpkin the size of a piano that weighs as much as a motorcycle.

Scott joins us on the line to explain a bit about the driving force behind the pumpkin, how to grow massive vegetables, and whether it'll be spared the pumpkin soup blender ...