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Our Gallery of Strange Fruit and Vegetables

If you find a strange fruit or vegetable then send it to me for the gallery.

Don't forget to tell me where your specimen was grown.

I will only identify you using your first name.

Caterpillar of the cucumber moth?

This was just one of the cucumbers that we grew in 2009. Certainly the biggest caterpillar we have had on the plot this year.

Below is a baby cucumber caterpillar sent by Robyn from Maryland

Where the heart is

Pat and Joe grew this loving radish and heart shaped potatoes on our allotment site. It is intriguing that a pattern is forming here as they also grew the heart shaped potatoes. So do their vegetables really love Pat and Joe as much as they love their veg and fruit and puddings and cakes!!!

Potatoes lovingly grown here at Green Lane by Joe and Pat - don't know what is going on on their plot!

Pat & Joe's carrot wars?

The one on the left looks like some weird sort of sea creature

Beangoosed sent us these photos of a lemon grown on our his/her lemon tree in Coleraine, Victoria, Australia. He/she says, "It has a similar appearance to a snail, and we were very amused by it so thought we would share the pics. Not sure whether we would get much juice out of it though! " I think the last photo looks a bit like a beckoning finger and the one on the top right looks like a tulip. (The gardener in me there!) Can you spot the snail too? What do you think?

This is ours! So which way is up?

This is a beefsteak tomato variety called Black Crimea - this one certainly looks as though it has been in a war. The flesh and skin are a darker colour than usual so it can be tricky to tell when it is ripe. It though - much better than it looks!

On the left our conjoined tomato - it's supposed to be another beefsteak variety called Costelluto Fiorentina. On the right is our mushroom tomato and below another produced by Rob at A Plot Too Far?- all the same variety.

X rated parsnip grown by Simon at Derry`s Field Allotments in Woking Surrey

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