Is this the world's heaviest potato? New Zealand couple accidentally grow a titanic tuber
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A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world's largest potato without even trying.
(CNN) — A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world's largest potato without even trying.
Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, from Ngāhinapōuri in the country's Waikato region, found the tuber growing in their garden when they were getting ready for the spring planting season.
"It was literally one of nature's pleasant surprises," Colin Craig-Brown told CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand. "Had no idea it was growing there, and I don't know how long he was there, because I was walking over the top of him all last cucumber season."
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