A farm has grown a 28 stone pumpkin and another which is even bigger.

Beluncle Farm, Stoke Road, Hoo have said the vegetable is their largest ever.

Farmer Mark Batchelor said: "I haven't got names for them but they are pretty big.

"They are special seed which I got at the beginning of the year.

"They love the sunlight so they've loved the hot weather this year and they also need lots of water.

"They've grown from seedlings to something that we can't even lift.

"We've weighed the smaller one it's 182 kilos, the bigger one we haven't weighed but considering it took six of us to move it I would say around 220kgs."

"I'm not sure how many pumpkins we have in total, but definitely tens of thousands."

They started the Pick Your Own pumpkin business in 2010 and it's popularity has increased every year since.

Mark's wife, Verity Batchelor, said "We started with a few friends, people love it and they just grow and grow and grow

"We started on the 13th October, people come in with their own wheel barrows, we've given them a map so they can work out where our different coloured pumpkins are.
"It's increasing every year, we're still doing a roaring trade.

"We normally grow wheat, the pumpkins are just a few weeks of our year but that's where we make most our money.

"Pumpkins are actually winter squash so we have lots of varieties of them including pink, blue and white."

After picking the pumpkins people go to a tent to weigh and pay for them.

There is also a shop which sells carving kits, snacks and drinks.

Pick Your Own is open from 10am - 4pm all this week until Sunday, October 28.