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Not even close. Other countries have other idea about the flavors potato chips should come in. Iberian ham is a popular one in Spain (along with chorizo, lemon pepper, fried egg, caviar, truffle, etc. Think prosciutto flavor. Britain's smoky bacon crisps are similar, while, over here, I suppose...

If you ever wondered where Phil Harris's "The Thing" came from, this is it.

Finally have a cucumber started.

Someone I knew said they hadn't lived until they tried the Iberian ham potato chips I found (well, they said they were "life changing".)

I smell a rat, or rather, a hinny.

Don't really remember the name. Someone's name Yellow Wild Currant, I think.

FINALLY some pods on the cowpea! Pods on all the common beans as well. Still nothing with the rice beans. If they fail, I really should toss the regular red ones (they're taking up a lot of room), but I have reservations. It's like this-this is the first time I've grown rice beans under...

1. I was right, the first flowerer in the S. villosum pot was a weed S. americanum that got in, so I pulled it (waiting on pulling second until a berry ripens and I am sure. 2. Second flush of bean flowers doesn't seem to be taking, so pods left may be last ones (plants are developing the...

The only idea I've had is the apple stock is dwarf, and they wanted to keep them short (except I'm fairly sure there are dwarf crab rootstocks as well). And, of course, "eating" is a relative term. I was using it in the sense of "Malus domestica, as opposed to other species of Malus." They...

New summer, new surprise. I was back over the bridge today, and so decided to investigate something I thought I had seen last time. As we were driving out of a parking lot (I swore I saw apples growing on one of the shrubs.) So off I plodded across the parking lot. When I got to the shrub, I...

They are pretty, but you never quite get used to the sound in the fall/winter when the wind rattles the pods on the branches (A. lebbek, from India, is commonly called "woman's tongue tree" for the noise it makes.) I personally have a soft spot for A. guachapele (South America), since I think...

General updates 1. First round of beans collected. A few mature, but mostly not; the weather tricked me (I'm used to beans being mature when the pods feel hollow, but dry weather made this happen early). Plants are still there, but only one is making more flowers and pods. 2. Looks like the...

Miner's Lettuce now in flower. I'm also noticing something odd about the newest holy basil plants. They don't look quite like the originals (which are still there; basil is perennial if you take it in over the winter,) they don't smell like them, and they don't ACT like them (they handle heat...

A selection of my own. I call them "Velcro" or "sticky" chickpeas. They're a desi (grinding type) with a seed coat covered in small raised bumps that make them stick to things like burrs do. Not great for eating (desi skins are too thick for eating whole, and the bumps make them impossible to...

First cherry tomatoes have flowers, as do a few of the red nightshades. Few rice beans are developing tendrils. Something are the chickpea pod, but there are a lot more flowers (though maybe I should put the pot on a pedestal to protect any future pods.)

Once in a while, when I have gotten exotic species of seeds and nuts for planting, I will sacrifice ia few to consume, so I can know what they taste like. I did it with the Hind's Walnuts (not all that different from Black in taste), with the Skittle Nuts (because I'd heard they were better than...

1. By now, ALL bean plants have flowers. Pity I lost so much diversity (apart from the one plant from the first try, all of them could be the same type.) 2. Still don't know if the rice beans are pole or bush, but they are already taller than they tend to get in The Stump (and the fact they...