২৩ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১১

A Meadhouse harvest.

৩৮টি মন্তব্য:

Will Cate বলেছেন...

Mmmmmm... green beans.

chickelit বলেছেন...

Looks like some wheat and some chaff there.

Get winnowing!

LordSomber বলেছেন...

Guy at the farmer's market had green beans like those. Also, purple ones.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

Those are most emphatically not green beans!

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

Oh. Yum! RAW!

I could eat all of them. I love raw green beans. Cooked? Not so much.

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

You know, I'm surprised these many beans made it into the house! Meade must love you so much! (Otherwise, he'd have sat in the garden gobbling them all up.)

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

If these aren't green beans what are they?

You're not going to tell me their baby limas!

These look exactly (except for the twigs) ... the green beans my mom would bring home from the market. Where she learned NOT to ask me to help her snip off the ends. Because I loved them raw!

What did Meade plant where he thinks he grew something other than green beans?

Deborah M. বলেছেন...

Snap beans?

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

It's another Althouse puzzle!

What the hell are these things?

Come on!

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

I hope you people don't just go out galavanting around putting things that look like food into your mouths!

edutcher বলেছেন...

That's how we learn.

Aren't we all your children?

You're supposed to take it out of our hands (or mouths) and say, "No, dear, you don't eat this. It's a...".

Clyde বলেছেন...

Are those Billy Beanes?

Clyde বলেছেন...

If so, then I have to give you A's for effort...

chickelit বলেছেন...

Wok us through this one, Althouse.

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

If you say these are "chinese beans" I'll scream.

Chinese beans are as long as my forearm.

নামহীন বলেছেন...

Peapods?

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

Could I give a bigger hint that it's not food?

edutcher বলেছেন...

They're bugs?

chickelit বলেছেন...

If not food nor fodder, why is it part of a harvest?

We harvest crops.

I'm crying fowl.

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

WHAT! Wax?

Meade brought you home a WAX bouquet?

Oy. At least their not waxed pears. People could make a mistake trying to eat one.

Meade বলেছেন...

"Get winnowing!"

And sifting.

As my whimsy leads me.. বলেছেন...

Too skinny for redbud pods, too short for catalpa... It's a puzzlement!

Toy

Meade বলেছেন...

"Could I give a bigger hint that it's not food?"

Not food, but it is in the Brassicales order.

chickelit বলেছেন...

Watts that plant?

Brassica fruticulosa?

chickelit বলেছেন...

Turnipseeds?

Joe Schmoe বলেছেন...

Oh yeah; porcupine beans. Gotta be careful when you eat porcupine beans.

coketown বলেছেন...

I've pretty much devoured everything I grew this year, except some tomatoes and potatoes. The shallots looks absolutely stunning all season, and then when I pulled them up they were just puny, rotten little bulbs. A real disappointment. Soon it will be time to get garlic in the ground.

Carol_Herman বলেছেন...

Why would you plant inedible "Brassicales?" Why would you buy these seeds?

I know someone with a green thumb just needs to stick his finger in the ground. And, throw in a seed. And, then nature does its thing.

But why?

Ya sure could'a planted green beans.

What was the beauty in this?

chickelit বলেছেন...

I know someone with a green thumb just needs to stick his finger in the ground. And, throw in a seed. And, then nature does its thing.

Sex-ed for plants!

Meade বলেছেন...

Come on, folks. First one to name it - genus and species - wins a packet of the seed for sowing in your 2012 garden. A $5 retail value!

ALP বলেছেন...

San Francisco Wallflower seed pods?
Family: Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae)
Genus: Erysimum L.
Species: Erysimum franciscanum G. Rossb

Fritz বলেছেন...

Cleome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleome

We just let them reseed themselves.

Fritz বলেছেন...

Probably C. hassleriana, although a true taxonomist would not approve of an identification from seed pods from a low-res photo over the internet.

Peter Hoh বলেছেন...

Cleome. I grew these a couple years ago and recognize the pods.

Synova বলেছেন...

Did anyone get it?

I can't see the *seeds* but the pods look like sweet peas.

Lathyrus odoratus?

Synova বলেছেন...

Oh wait, no. I didn't realize that the random and mysterious pine needles were were stems.

Cleome, eh?

BJM বলেছেন...

Grandfather's Whiskers...Cleome hassleriana?

Meade বলেছেন...

Very good. Fritz got it. Email me your mailing address and I'll send you your seeds, C. hassleriana "Meadhouse."

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