MCCANDLESS — A 9-year-old girl with a green thumb is being rewarded with the other kind of green for growing an extraordinarily large cabbage.

Lily Ries, a fourth-grader at Peebles Elementary School in Pittsburgh has won $1,000 savings bond for her extra-large vegetable. She grew it as part of National Bonnie Plants Third Grade Cabbage Program.

Her mom, Megan Ries, said they had no idea cabbages could get so big.

Lily said she didn’t do anything special, just watered it and gave it enough sun on her deck in Allison Park.

The weight of the cabbage was not reported.