A WOMAN from St Julian’s who has grown a big pumpkin so large that it needs three people to carry it, wants to donate the giant fruit to charity.

Nicky Ault, 47, of Durham Road, St Julian’s, only got her allotment in the Glebelands in March and since then she has been growing all sorts, from sweetcorn to runner beans, from flowers to pumpkins.

She said she was stunned by how enormous her pumpkins had grown.

“At the moment, the pumpkins are taking over the garden because they’re at the front,” Miss Ault said. “I bought seeds that were said to be for big pumpkins, but I wasn’t expecting them to be this huge.

“It’s so big, it’d take at least three people to move it.”

Miss Ault, a medical receptionist, said that there are four large pumpkins – and that the biggest is so huge that she can’t put her arms around it.

She said: “It just happened, everyone is amazed by it.

“The other day, I could just about move the other one – which isn’t as big as this one.

“This one is a few good kilos.”

Miss Ault said she would like to put the huge pumpkin to a good use.

“If any charity or hospital wards wants it to make a lantern for Hallowe’en, I’m more than happy to give it to them,” she said.

The allotment in the Glebelands is Miss Ault’s first allotment.

“I love going there,” she said. “I spend a lot of time in the allotment. It’s nice and peaceful. I enjoy getting out and digging”