Let us ponder on some vegetable mysteries
This is a fraction of this weekend’s harvest. Everything is coming at once.
Vegetable harvest
While picking I got to thinking:
- How come 8 large French Beans can hide behind one leaf?
- Why is a giant Courgette/Zucchini invisible until you trip over it?
- How do Runner Beans (planted a month later to avoid a deluge of beans) always catch up with the French Beans….resulting in a bean mountain?
- Why do tomatoes stay green for absolutely ages and ages….one ripe one appears, making you all warm and fuzzy….then two days later there are bucket loads?
- How do Cabbage White butterflies manage to squeeze through the netting onto the Cabbages?
- Who would have thought that Cucumbers could give a gardener mild concussion while hanging from the greenhouse roof?
- Why are there no recipes requiring a wheelbarrow load of vegetables….that result in a meal for 2?
Answers on a postcard please.
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I do appreciate what you are getting at… yes, very mysterious indeed. And I still dont understand the survival element in self seeding…. Everytime we clear up the plot, there will be little seedlings of spinach appearing from nowhere. The last time we planted spinach was almost a year ago in that plot. The seeds simply don’t germinate together one shot. Some stay dormant for the next opportunity…. such survival instinct!!
Cheers
~bangchik
How true! Especially the courgettes – I discovered two the size of nuclear submarines at the weekend.
I so don’t know those mysteries. I’ve never had a zucchini hide from me. I get those large ones when I leave town for a week. Now the beans, they do like to hide. Luckily Kentucky Wonder beans turn more yellow as they age so are easier to see. The last question I might be able to help you out with. You can make minestrone soup with it all. You would have soup for 2. Freeze the rest and you have soup for 2 several more times. I’m having trouble eating it all too. I’m trying to freeze things too which helps especially with the beans.
What mischief do cabbage white butterflies cause?! Tis very true about tomatoes – maybe it is some sort of trigger tomato?
And…
How come there’s always too much or too little, but never just right?
How on earth did gravity stay undiscovered for so long?
Thanks for the chuckles today! :D
Some great thoughts and some ever more delicious looking vegetables – it’s always so satisfying to see it all together like that and to think that you grew it all…. wonderful! Miranda
Funny post. I would like to know the answers to those questions too, but fear they are unanswerable. Just part of life in the veggie patch, I guess. Hope your head recovers from the cuke collision!
PS Hey just to let you know, I have been caught up in this pass-it along blog exercise and I had to nominate 5 other bloggers, hope you don’t mind but you were one – click through to my blog to see what you need to do (if you so choose to keep it up!)
Clueless…but I envy your wonderful/colourful harvest! Enjoy:-)
These mysteries are going to take some serious pondering of the mind and deep philosophical meanings of all things. Hmmmm. Might take a while to come up with the answers. Let me put on my thinking cap and get right to it!:)
Quite the bounty you have there. If there are wheelbarrow loads, more than you can manage to eat, I wonder if there’s a local food bank or shelter that might accept donations. I bet gardeners’ extras would go a long way.
Hi EG, what a haul! And that is one large tomato with the dark skin. Those are always the best tasting, we feel. I am amazed at the quantities you have. But there can never be enough green beans, IMHO. :-)
Frances
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