Zucchini longer than 8 feet grows in Canada: Can it break a world record?

A home gardener from Ontario, Canada, harvested an 8-foot, 4.79-inch zucchini in his garden and it could be crowned the longest on record. 

Henry D’Angela applied to Guinness World Records to have the gigantic vegetable certified as the longest in the world.

“I didn’t start out to grow the longest,” D’Angela told ThoroldToday. “It just happened to be in a new area I had never grown before. The soil has done really well for it. It’s amazing.”

D’Angela, who hails from the city of Thorold, about 30 miles west of Niagara Falls, started growing zucchini a decade ago.

He told the outlet that the secret to his success is “I guess plenty of water. And I put manure in the base.”

It also didn’t hurt that the Thorold region gets more than 15 hours of daylight at the height of the summer, giving plants extra time to grow.

The current longest zucchini record holder, John Giovanni Scozzafavain from Niagara Falls, took home the title in 2014 for one that reached 8 feet and 3.3 inches.

While he waits to hear back from the record book, D’Angela is keeping the zucchini safe in his garage.

“When they open the farmer’s market in Thorold next year I should bring this as a novelty,” said D’Angela, who serves on the community’s City Council. “So Thorold can be known as having the biggest zucchini in the world.”