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What Vegetable WOULDN'T you grow?
Kim from A Study in Contrasts has just started a meme titled NIMG: Not In My Garden. Basically, it's provided the opportunity for gardeners to air their dislikes and mention the plants, features and gardening items that would never surface in THEIR garden.
As I've never been backward in sharing what I do or don't like in my garden - here are the items that are DNIMG:(Definitely) Not In My Garden:
I thought I would instead ask the question: What Vegetable WOULDN'T you grow? Sure, we all rave about the ones we would. We share our joys, successes and display photos like a grandma with pics of the ankle-biters.
But, are there any vegetables that you would file in the NIMVP (Not in my Vegetable Patch) cabinet?
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Stuart, what are Chokos? You might have to do some translating here for those of us who garden outside of Oz.
This is a tough one... I can't think of anything that I wouldn't grow if given enough space in the veggie garden. (Even corn, which I will never grow here because I refuse to devote the space it needs to produce well.) I'll have to come back to this one.
Posted by: Kim | September 15, 2007 6:43 AM
Fair question Kim.
Apparently they once used them as pear substitutes in tinned pears. Because they are so bland they will take on the flavour of anything else they're cooked with. Plus, they have a similar texture to pears. Interesting!
Posted by: Stuart | September 15, 2007 9:14 AM
Hmmmmm. Given that I don't HAVE a vegetable patch, just half a dozen heritage tomato plants sprawled in the greenhouse (where they might eventually ripen!), I guess I'll just have to play in theory. Corn would be a no-no for me, though--it's greedy, doesn't ripen up here on my hill because of the lack of heat units, and the raccoons would eat it all anyway. Pumpkins, too--I like to look at them, or shoot arrows into them (when I did target archery) but eat them? Not a chance!
Posted by: jodi | September 19, 2007 8:59 PM
What? No Pumpkin? It's funny how some vegetables are just detested in some countries.
Here in Oz we absolutely love our pumpkins and after having suffered from eating Ironbacks for most of my childhood it was a welcome sight to finally enjoy Butternuts and now Japanese Pumpkin.
Shame about the 'coons Jodi. Some sweet corn might have made a nice treat.
Posted by: Stuart | September 20, 2007 6:01 AM