ANY ideas of what vegetables look like go out of the window when it comes to the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

Colossal cabbages, bizarre beetroots, cosmic carrots and giant pumpkins did battle for top titles in this year’s giant vegetable competition.

There are 13 monster classes for the heaviest and the longest, including pumpkin, marrow, parsnip, leek, cabbage, potato, beetroot, carrot, rhubarb, runner bean and cucumber.

Among this year’s winners were Peter Glazebrook from Newark who won the heaviest beetroot weighing in at 11.52 kilos and a carrot at 7.9 kilos. Paul Bastow’s giant cabbage weighed in at 25.4kg, winning the heaviest cabbage class in the show’s annual Giant Vegetable Competition.

There were 202 entries in the giant veg class and 57 growers which is 25 per cent up on last year.