Setyembre 23, 2011

A Meadhouse harvest.

38 komento:

Will Cate ayon kay ...

Mmmmmm... green beans.

chickelit ayon kay ...

Looks like some wheat and some chaff there.

Get winnowing!

LordSomber ayon kay ...

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

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Those are most emphatically not green beans!

Carol_Herman ayon kay ...

Oh. Yum! RAW!

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

Carol_Herman ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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. ayon kay ...

Snap beans?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

It's another Althouse puzzle!

What the hell are these things?

Come on!

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

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

edutcher ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

Are those Billy Beanes?

Clyde ayon kay ...

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

chickelit ayon kay ...

Wok us through this one, Althouse.

Carol_Herman ayon kay ...

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

Chinese beans are as long as my forearm.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Peapods?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

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

edutcher ayon kay ...

They're bugs?

chickelit ayon kay ...

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

We harvest crops.

I'm crying fowl.

Carol_Herman ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

"Get winnowing!"

And sifting.

As my whimsy leads me.. ayon kay ...

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

Toy

Meade ayon kay ...

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

Not food, but it is in the Brassicales order.

chickelit ayon kay ...

Watts that plant?

Brassica fruticulosa?

chickelit ayon kay ...

Turnipseeds?

Joe Schmoe ayon kay ...

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

coketown ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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

Fritz ayon kay ...

Cleome

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

We just let them reseed themselves.

Fritz ayon kay ...

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 ayon kay ...

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

Synova ayon kay ...

Did anyone get it?

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

Lathyrus odoratus?

Synova ayon kay ...

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

Cleome, eh?

BJM ayon kay ...

Grandfather's Whiskers...Cleome hassleriana?

Meade ayon kay ...

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

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