Love Carrots and Other Vegetables

The Rude Carrot Club

October 25, 2007 at 11:21 am | In Aesoteric Blogs, Because I can., Humorous Vegetables, Love Carrots, Love Vegetables, Reader Submissions, Vegetables, Your Pictures | 9 Comments

My cringing apologies to Ron Hoggan who submitted this smashing picture on 15 of October, I hope my tardiness will not be taken amiss.

Here is another fine carrot with a willy to grow to our ever growing Rude Carrot Club. Nicely picked out on the green background, too. Top work there, Ron.

Thank you.

Enjoy.

Rude Tomato!

October 24, 2007 at 2:45 pm | In Aesoteric Blogs, Because I can., Humorous Vegetables, Love Fruit, Reader Submissions, Your Pictures | Leave a Comment

Thanks for Steve Hartley in the Lake District for this splendid picture of a tomato he grew which has a little knob!

Well done Steve! My tomatoes did nothing this year – a disaster for somebody trying to run a site like this one. Thank you for coming to my rescue! I particularly like the way the tumescent excresance has ripened before everything else.

“It was a bit unnerving when I skinned and ate it.” Steve says.

Blimey! I’ll say! As a woman, supposedly unaffected by these things, even I have to admit I’d be squeamish about peeling it… eeesh.

Anyway folks, here you go. Enjoy….

BTW. Nice hibiscus in the background there!

Gerkin ‘ell! What’s that?

October 17, 2007 at 4:39 pm | In Aesoteric Blogs, Because I can., Humorous Vegetables, Love Vegetables, Reader Submissions, Your Pictures | 1 Comment

Thanks to Daveofsky for sending me this smashing photograph of a Loch-Ness-Monster-shaped cucumber.

“I found this fellow relaxing in my cucumber plot. What could he be?”

He asks.

Hmm… Is it Nessie or is it a cucumber viper, rearing to strike – if vipers don’t strike, I’m sure somebody will enlighten me..? Notice the mouth, it looks like a glove puppet. Is there somebody’s hand in there? Perhaps it escaped from Children’s TV.

I am especially appreciative of the way he has added the little eyes, for extra effect… it’s creative flourishes like this which make the difference!

Top job, David, we thank you!

Enjoy!

Spiders from Mars…..?

October 15, 2007 at 8:45 am | In Humorous Vegetables, Love Plants, Love Vegetables, Odd plants, Reader Submissions, Your Pictures | Leave a Comment

Here is another smashing submission from our friend Risto, who has been industriously growing mutant vegetables all year!

Thank you Risto.

“This truly horrible looking alien parsnip beamed down to our veggie patch yesterday.”

Yikes! Are those mouth parts in the middle there?

“We refuse to eat it as it’s probably emerged from John Hurt’s stomach.”

Quite so. Yuk! We don’t know what he’s been eating!

Whatever happened to the Jolly Green Giant?

October 3, 2007 at 3:49 pm | In Aesoteric Blogs, Because I can., Humorous Vegetables, Love Vegetables, Odd plants, Vegetables | 5 Comments

Is this really a naturally occurring gourd or one of the less well known, or publicly displayed, parts of the Jolly Green Giant… No wonder he’s laughing all the time if this is what he’s got in his pants. If it isn’t the King Dong of Gourds, I don’t know what is.

Hmm… well… enjoy.