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To: Annette who wrote (788)	9/7/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 3495

World-Record Rutabaga A Surprise To Grower Tuesday September 7 10:23 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com PALMER, Alaska (Reuters) - Scott Robb failed to grow giant Alaska cabbages this summer, but ended up in the record books with the world's biggest rutabaga -- a turnip-like vegetable he doesn't even like. Robb grew a 75.57-pound (34.35 kilo) rutabaga, which wound up on prominent display at the Alaska State Fair which ended Monday. Robb, whose rutabaga broke the record by more than 13 pounds (5.9 kilos), said he did nothing special. ''Well, it just had the genetic components to do that, and I fed it and I watered it,'' he said. ''It just took off growing. I was surprised myself.'' The rutabaga will end up in the Guinness Book of World Records, said state fair officials. Robb said that he had set out to compete in the state fair's annual cabbage contest, but his cabbage crop matured too soon and wound up in the garbage. Alaska's small agricultural belt, mostly located around Palmer, produces cabbages and other vegetables that grow to massive size in the around-the-clock summer sun. This year's winning Alaska cabbage weighed in at 91.61 pounds (41.6 kilos). But it was Robb's rutabaga that was the fair's star. ''It looks like an alien,'' said Janiece Buck of Anchorage. ''I haven't been to the fair in 10 years, but I came to see this rutabaga.''