They are real heavyweights: At the pumpkin weighing championship in Klaistow (Potsdam-Mittelmark district), breeders weighed their heaviest specimens.
A pumpkin belonging to 39-year-old Görlitzer Andreas Baumert won on Sunday with 865.5 kilos.
According to the organizers, there were around 60 to 70 giant pumpkins in this year's competition.
The breeders came from several federal states.
Last year, the winning pumpkin weighed 867 kilos.
In 2021, a specimen weighing 1226 kilos was considered the heaviest pumpkin in the world - it had won a competition in Italy.
The competition in the village of Klaistow will be held as part of a pumpkin exhibition, which the organizers say is the largest of its kind in Berlin and Brandenburg.
With countless pumpkins, the show shows recreated figures on the theme of water, such as a shark and a mermaid.
Baumert, a successful breeder from Saxony, said it was fascinating to watch the pumpkin grow every day.
The vegetables can gain 30 kilos per day.
Last year he had only reached 48th place.
After winning the competition, he is now motivated to take part again next year.
But before that there is the pumpkin slaughter festival in November.
The vegetables are cut open in order to cook soup with them and to grow new pumpkins with the seeds.