GREEN-FINGERED children at a Bourne End nursery couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the size of a pumpkin they grew for a nursery competition.

Jake Milborrow and Toby Knight from Poppies Nursery were part of a team that were given seeds to grow their own vegetable in a contest among the four classes.

And the budding greengrocers won by a country mile after their pumpkin grew to a whopping 136cm in circumference.

Nursery manager Kelly Panter said: “Lin Junker, the nursery's gardening club leader, gave the four rooms pumpkin seeds in the Spring to plant and cultivate to see whose grew the biggest.

“The Little Explorers room won, with their pumpkin having a circumference of 136cm at its thickest point - and its still growing!”

Kelly said the children now plan to carve it into a Cinderella coach and use the flesh to make pumpkin soup and pie.