Big cabbage brings college cash for Mississippi child

MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) - An elementary school student in Mississippi has earned a $1,000 scholarship for growing a massive cabbage.

Rayne Byron tells WLOX-TV that she planted the cabbage in a tire and just kept fertilizing and watering the plant.

The cabbage finally weighed in at 23 pounds (10.4 kilograms). That’s about 10 times larger than many cabbages.

Rayne is a student at East Central Upper Elementary in Moss Point. She was the Mississippi winner in the Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program , which encourages third-graders to grow the plants.

Now in fourth grade, Rayne says she will save her winnings to help pay for college, and she wants to study agriculture.

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Information from: WLOX-TV, http://www.wlox.com