The gardening in Corvallis this year has been interesting, albeit a bit slow for the tomatoes for some reason. Every year I try to grow several new vegetables, sometimes just to find out if I like them. Among them are the veggies that I just can't grow or aren't very palatable to me. The Radicchio just didn't pan out, as it tasted similar to what I imagine Skunk-cabbage tastes like. My Roma tomatoes last year were as hard as billiard balls. I've also found that often the stranger something looks, the better it tastes. A friend said that Kohlrabi looks like "some kinda weird space alien thingy...whatever..." And it does, but its taste is akin to a sweet and tender broccoli stem.
Then there are the truely bizarre, the outliers in which some process of cell division went horribly wrong. I'll post them here as I find them, and feel free to post your own in a similar fashion. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of some of them. Among the missing are the pontoon boat shaped zuchini, The two lobed lemon cucumber, and the V shaped pole bean.
The two headed fairy eggplant. I'll leave it to you to decide which part of the human anatomy this looks like.
Possibly my favorite: the so-called "Frankentuber," the oddest potatoe I've ever seen
The two headed fairy eggplant. I'll leave it to you to decide which part of the human anatomy this looks like. 
Possibly my favorite: the so-called "Frankentuber," the oddest potatoe I've ever seen
2 comments:
maybe it's the oddball cultivator that creates oddball veggies :)
Hi Jake,
I love kohlrabi, too! Here at the monkey house, I've been feeding Rachel's nephews roasted kohlrabi with a little garlic tossed in at the end of cooking, and a little splash of champagne vinegar or lemon juice. Yum! How have you been preparing kohlrabi?
Emily
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