Tales of weather woe abounded at this year's 207th
Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Society show.
But amazingly all the bad luck failed to dent
enthusiasm for the region's quirkiest event. Many growers had their juicy
berries being ruined by heavy deluges of rain, some
others by cold spring and some others being eaten by hungry badgers. Local star grower Brian Nellist, of Egton Bridge,
had produced some of the heaviest twin berries he had ever grown. Nellist a
septuagenarian amateur gardener displayed a 62 grams woodpecker whopper. Eric Preston Chairman of Egton Bridge
commented that people from all
over the place had come to attend the show. This is the first world record ever set at Egton Bridge and
the heaviest club berry grown there in more than 200 years.
Mathematicians have verified that Bryan Nellist, of Egton
Bridge, has smashed the 16-year-old Guinness World Record for the heaviest
Gooseberry
held by Kelvin Archer for a
gooseberry weighing 61.04g.Bryan Nellist smashed the earlier record by a small
margin of just 2 grains or 0.1 grams.
A former gamekeeper on the Egton estate, Mr. Bryan Nellist has
been growing gooseberries for more than half a century. He grows his
record goose berries in the back garden and has
been a regular champion at the village's famous Old Gooseberry Show, where he
was recently awarded the Harland Challenge Cup. He quipped that he had
been trying for the past 53 years to grow giant goose berries but felt that the current huge berries could have
grown still more bigger.
This exemplifies the
insatiable appetite of the dedicated and experienced gardener to outwit the set
standards. The process of growing goose berries has always been an extremely
delicate process. But unfortunately the
twin berries burst due to heat and moisture as contributed by weather.
The heaviest Gooseberries weighed 62 grams and was set by
Bryan Nellist at the Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show at Whitby , United Kingdom on
September 18, 2009.
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