iN PHOTOS: Supersized vegetables crop up in Kamloops, Okanagan gardens

Harvest season is well underway in Kamloops and the Okanagan, and hardworking gardeners are enjoying the fruits of their labour bringing in a wide variety of tasty fruits and vegetables.

Earlier this summer, iNFOnews.ca shared photos of some the strangest looking vegetables grown so far this season including twisted carrots and tomatoes with horns.

With autumn approaching people are discovering and admiring supersized vegetables in their gardens.

Kamloops gardener Tamara Martinsen grew a tomato weighing 1.3 pounds.

“I’ve been gardening pretty much my whole life starting with my grandma growing potatoes,” she said. “It’s absolutely the largest tomato I’ve ever grown.”

Martinsen already ate the tomato but is keeping its seeds to plant next spring.

“It was eaten fresh but I would have made a single tomato soup if I’d had the time, I was extremely excited for a single slice toasted tomato sandwich,” she said.

If you photos of your giant garden vegetables, send them to news@infonews.ca.

This giant pumpkin in a Kelowna garden isn’t done growing yet. | Credit: SUBMITTED/ Chris Dalton

This giant tomato was grown in the Okanagan. | Credit: SUBMITTED/ Neil Taylor

This green pepper grown in Kamloops is bigger than a hand. | Credit: SUBMITTED/ Kelly Oakden Vos

This butternut squash grown in Kamloops weighs 4.5 pounds. | Credit: SUBMITTED/ Cathy Holland

A gardener in Kamloops found a super long cucumber in her garden. | Credit: SUBMITTED/ Audrey Brunner

— This article was corrected at 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 to provide the correct spelling of the subject's name.

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