Tip-Top Tomatoes!
Garden News|September 15, 2018

Mammoth exhibition of varieties is the world’s largest.

Ian Hodgson
Tip-Top Tomatoes!

An astonishing display of tomatoes at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, has beaten the current world record for the greatest number of different varieties staged in a single exhibit. Part of the gardens’ Totally Terrific Tomato Festival held in late August, a team of 44 volunteer gardeners and growers clubbed together to stage 256 different types, beating the 241 staged by The World Tomato Society at Los Gatos, California in 2017 and authenticated by Guinness World Records.

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