The pumpKING: Massive 135 stone pumpkin crowned the UK's heaviest

Twins Ian and Stuart Paton have broken the UK record for growing the heaviest pumpkin ever with a whopper that weighed 1,884 pounds.

17:14 13 October 2014

Twins Ian and Stuart Paton have broken the UK record for growing the heaviest pumpkin ever for the second time. This year, their entry weighed an epic 1,884 pounds.

The 53-year-old brothers previously held the record until it was beaten by a pumpkin last year that weighed 1,520 pounds. During recent annual weigh-in however, they smashed the record with their enormous 4.5ft tall pumpkin, which has a circumference of 17ft and 4in.

Elite grower Ian said: “It’s absolutely enormous.

“Mark is a great friend of ours - we have known him for over 10 years - and it was actually him who took our British record last year.

“It’s brilliant to take another step closer to the world record. Mark is chuffed to bits for us.”

Ian added: “The secret behind it is that we feed them well, if you want to grow anything you’ve got to feed it right."