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Giant vegetables at Malvern!

Season 1, Ep. 158
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The Malvern show is finally here! After 8 months of growing, has the stress of growing a giant vegetable been worth it? Mollie enters her extraordinarily long chillies, find out where she comes. She chats to lots of fabulous growers too, what a fab bunch of people. Oh, and Mollie also gets her melons on the local TV news 😂

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