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I found this amusing THIS is what a Nancy Drew book looks like in Japan.

As I think I said before, the original beanstalk was probably supposed to be a broad, or fava, bean plant. Those WERE in England since time immemorial. Plus, sine favas grow straight up without support, it actually fits the legend better.

Once in a blue moon, you might find an even BETTER tasting one (the only one I sort of like). Look for ones that are pure purple (instead of the purple/green mix most are) and oval/egg shaped, not spherical.

Well, I've TOLD o all about the rosary pea in the bag of senna. Besides that (and a ton of other seeds). I have found plenty of bugs (including a few ladybugs I filed away for later identification,) small stones (including a small bit of what I TIK might be raw jade) bits of burlap, and so on.

Does Lynx TALK to Shrimpy, like Juniper talks to Koala?

This HAS to be from somewhere in Asia, those are MUCH bigger rose apples than I have ever seen here in the states.

Lets put it this way My cousin (the one whose home I am going to be at this afternoon), fell in love with the sweetcorn variety Hooker's Heirloom. He bought his initial packed from Seeds of Change probably ten or so years ago. He grows it every year. And, as far as I know, he's STILL using seed...

Accuracy is also a big issue. Many use stock photos, and often not the right one (there's someone I ended up buying a LOT of orange sweet pea seed from becuase the picture they provided, rather than showing orange flowered Lathyus odoratus, showed Pisum eltatius, which was what I actually was...

Seed selling is a bit odd in China. Since the CCP officially owns all the land, and actually controls what and how much of crops farmers can grow (to the point of sending people out to destroy fields planted in excess or with the wrong crops/varieties,) sell seeds commercially for home use is...

Yeah, but most of that SHOULD have disappeared anyway. Unless you NEED a physical copy of what is being sent, email is both quicker (since it's basically instantaneous), cheaper (since it doesn't cost you anything beyond what you are already paying for your internet service) and more...

I can get worse. My mom said that, for a while when she worked in Manhattan, if they wanted to send something to the building NEXT DOOR, it had to go through Fedex and go to MEMPHIS before it got back to them. We've had a similar idea proposed a few time. The big problem I can see with that...

It's not as hard as it sounds. Fact is, if I had been paying attention, I'd have recognized them when I was in the store (it doesn't help that, since I haven't been to Manhattan in several years, I haven't been to Kalyustan's where I would be buying properly labeled cubebs) They really only look...

Probably the dumbest candy idea since Chilly Chilly Bang Bang ! (a sugared drink packaged in a gun shaped container where you stuck the end of the barrel in your mouth and pushed the trigger to "shoot" the fluid into your mouth).

This reminds me of a slightly different holiday memory. During all of High School, by tradition, I would come in with a tin of King Leo peppermint sticks to share with everyone. Besides being my favorite in terms of flavor, one of the things I loved about them was that, due to their length and...

Only remotely interesting story I have is that, yesterday at the Indian grocery store, I saw a bag of what was marked as allspice but looked darker and smaller than any allspice I know. So I bought it, thinking it might be an alternate species. When I got it home opened it and looked at it, it...

a tiny bit, but they tend to be a lot sweeter (at least, the kind you get in a jar from IKEA, which is what he uses, are) I can only say I like them and I DON'T like cranberries. And I am very glad he does not also get cloudberries (a pale yellow raspberry species). For some reason, those make...

Pity there's no legal way to send home brew in the mail or between states. Those who drink it say my stuff beats anything the commercial meaderies make (and these are not people to give flattery.) Ofg course, no commercial meadery could AFFORD to make any of mine. In general, most places, to...