It's the nose you know - Shrewsbury gardener's tomato looks like Pinocchio

Dennis Wiggin from Harlescott has spent many hours tending his tomato plants.

He carefully grew them from seed and has nurtured them along the way. So imagine his surprise when he came to harvest them and found one which had more than a passing resemblance to the cartoon character made famous in the 1940 Walt Disney film.

"As soon as I saw it I thought it looked a little familiar," said Dennis, a 67-year-old retired engineer.

"I was with my 10-year-old granddaughter Amy who had come to stay for two weeks and she said it looked just Pinocchio. And I thought, 'she's right'.

"I put it in the fridge to keep it from going over ripe and since then everyone I have shown it to says the same thing.

"It just made me laugh."

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Dennis is no stranger to growing oddly shaped fruit and vegetables.

Last year he grew a potato that looked like Noddy.

"I don't do anything special to make them grow like this, they just happen," he said.

"I have an allotment and also a greenhouse out the back of the house. I grow all sorts of fruit and veg as well as flowers. For the tomatoes, I fed them with a mixture of bonemeal and chicken muck as well as some liquid fertilizer and they really liked it. I have a bumper crop this year with so many on the vine that I don't know what to do with them.

"It has been a great year for tomatoes particularly when you consider that I grew these from seed that I bought in the Pound Shop."

Dennis's love of gardening comes from his father who was head gardener at a number of estates around the town.

"Me and my brothers are all very keen gardeners, I try my hand at growing anything and the results always make me smile."

Dennis's wife Olwen, 62, shares his love of gardening. "She is as keen as me," said Dennis. "Even she thinks this tomato is special."