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    What's the weirdest thing on your plot?

    Mine's not too weird. I've got romanesque on the plot and mooli in my garden as well as some purple carrots, but that's about as adventerous as I've gone this year.

    Has anyone got anything really far out - salsify or oca maybe? Is it worth it or are they purely for novelty value?

    I saw something in a gardening book once that looked like a huge thistle which it said occaisionally cropped up in veg gardens. I can't remember the name but it didn't look very tasty.
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    Me, looking like Wurzle Gummidge. As for veg, purple carrots this year, and purple podded peas last year.

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    • #3
      On our centenary garden I've got salsify and scorzonera growing, and on mine am guessing it could be the Jersey Tree Kale and Luffa gourd......your big thistle could either be a globe artichoke or a cardoon
      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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      • #4
        Yes cardoon, that's it! Here's a pic - http://www.cherrygal.com/images/Cardoon.jpg

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        • #5
          My weirdest things must be my plastic pigs, filched aeons ago from a butcher's.

          Weird veg? Soya beans, chick peas, scorzonera ... purple carrots, white beetroot ... I've tried most things.
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by rustylady View Post
            Me, looking like Wurzle Gummidge.
            Awww. you got in before me!
            As to veg, purple french beans, Romanesco cauliflower and Black Russian tomatoes are as weird as it gets!
            When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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            • #7
              Not had much luck with salsify this year -not 1 germinated! but I do have mexican tree spinach, does that count?

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              • #8
                Weirdest thing? Siamese Cat asleep in the Greenhouse. Why? It's the hottest place on earth, and she likes the heat!
                All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
                  Weirdest thing? Siamese Cat asleep in the Greenhouse. Why? It's the hottest place on earth, and she likes the heat!
                  MOUSE! TREAT!

                  Don't understand? Check out "Kitty is Very Bad Mystic" on You Tube. (I would post it myself, but can't make it work!). Go on, you'll love it!
                  When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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                  • #10
                    Beautiful cat on that.
                    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                    • #11
                      Salsify is starting to become a weed on my patch, cropping up all over.(it has lovely flowers that come out with the sun) Was pulling out some weeds yesterday and came across a dill or fennel plant.I'd already pulled it out and didn't realise until I sniffed it. It's now in a pot being rejuvenated. No fennel or dill around about so it must have been carried in somehow?.
                      I also have a Cardoon on it's third year now, half a dozen Walking stick kales on there second year, Ne Plus uUtra peas are doing well along, as are Crimson flowered broad beans, comfrey & horseradish. Ther bergamot took a bit of a hit over winter but a few sprigs are still standing. I have a nice pastel pink clematis flowering for the first year. unusually some of its flowers are single and some are double.
                      A six foot high umbeliferous flowering parsnip adds a bit of architectural height to proceedings!
                      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                      Diversify & prosper


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                      • #12
                        Growing some yellow sugar snaps, some really tall pea varieties and a couple of tomatillos this year. Nothing hugely weird though as I had to scale back. Next year, well, I have yet to find my weird thing to plant!

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                        • #13
                          What's the weirdest thing on your plot?

                          I'm trying Tomatillos too. They stayed tiny for ages but are now nearly four foot tall with lots of yellow flowers and are bigger than most of my tomato plants. Have never tried eating Tomatillos so I hope I like them! I have four plants in the greenhouse and I'm wondering whether to bring two outside as they could be enormous by September

                          These are green fruited ones but if all goes well will try some purple too next year. Got over excited and bought the seeds from Real Seeds already. Anyone want a few purple Tomatillo seeds in exchange for a few Collective Woman Farmer melon seeds? Decided I'd like to try them next year AFTER I made my Real Seeds order and they've all gone but maybe someone here has some spare?

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                          • #14
                            My nextdoor neighbours when he wanders onto my plot!

                            He is a little strange!
                            Little ol' me

                            Has just bagged a Lottie!
                            Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
                            FIL and MIL - http://vegblogs.co.uk/chubbly/

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by ukfapower View Post
                              I'm trying Tomatillos too. They stayed tiny for ages but are now nearly four foot tall with lots of yellow flowers and are bigger than most of my tomato plants. Have never tried eating Tomatillos so I hope I like them! I have four plants in the greenhouse and I'm wondering whether to bring two outside as they could be enormous by September
                              They grow to about a metre cubed each.....so I'd put all 4 outside personally.....

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