Donated what is probably the largest squash in the country to the TV campaign – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio

As income for the TV campaign this year, Nav in Stavanger has collected NOK 2,380 in a very special way. – The money has already been sent by the Guard to the action, says Lin Veronica Jacobsen, who is employed at Nav Stavanger. Jacobsen grows vegetables on his homestead in Tysvær. When she was going to harvest the last vegetables this year, she got a squash weighing a whopping 8.4 kilos. – Most people have liked to see a small squash. So if we multiply a small squash by ten, we are getting close to something. The colleagues of Lin Veronica Jacobsen (who has the squash in the picture) bought lottery tickets in the hope of winning the squash. Photo: Erik Waage Instead of selling to the highest bidder, she chose to donate the huge vegetable to the TV campaign. This year it is raising money for the Children’s Cancer Association. The income will be used to establish family houses at university hospitals in Tromsø, Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo. Here, children with a serious illness and their families can live together while the child receives treatment. – Good colleagues at Nav bought lottery tickets at NOK 20 each to give them support, says Jacobsen. Have been lucky with the relationship Associate Professor Anne-Berit Wold at NMBU is, among other things, an expert on vegetables. She describes the almost 10 kilo squash as unusual. – It must have had very good growing conditions. Good nutrition, the right temperature and the right water. Even in the same field, the different plants can live in different microclimates, explains Wold. The giant squash from Tysvær must have had a very good time. – People are usually done with the harvest by now. If the squash is allowed to stand for a long time and grow in peace, they can become quite large. Good growing conditions and late harvesting may be the reason why the squash has become so large. Photo: Erik Waage There will be a lot of squash for dinner in the future Five lottery tickets were needed, and the lucky winner was Thea Løwen. She has now secured several dinners with squash in the future. Thea Løwen was the lucky winner. Photo: Erik Waage – We will try to cook some good food and donate it. Because I don’t think we can eat that much squash, she says. The size of squash has been discussed in the media several times before. The latest from the newspaper Nordlys earlier this autumn, with a squash weighing around 4.1 kilos. The largest that has been mentioned so far is from a case by Eidsvoll Ullensaker Blad. The squash weighed 7.2 kilos, but it was probably two squashes that had grown together. Published 17.10.2024, at 19.10



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