Every year I end up with some unusual looking vegetables from the garden. This year wasn’t a great growing year, so I only have this offering. I planted the watermelons near the fence so that they would trellis themselves. This one obliged, but insisted on pressing itself into the mesh. To me it ended up looking a bit like Toby.
Here are some Chernobyl-style samples from previous years.
Heartbeet
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Lemme at ’em! I’ll make short work of those mutant vegetables!
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I accidentally learned a lesson the hard way this week. I had a small amount of watermelon with my breakfast, and by evening I was so dizzy and sick that I could barely stand. Turns out that if you are hypotensive, watermelon can make your blood pressure drop dangerously low. (It you have hypertension, though, its combination of citrulline and potassium can help lower your blood pressure!) I spent the rest of the evening chugging water and lying down – a rather sloshy and uncomfortable combination.
Every time something like this happens, I wish I could send a big “Nya! Nya!” to my poopyhead doctor who refused to listen to me.
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The Adventures of Bitey Dog 
What an uncomfortable experience from eating watermelon!
It was especially confusing because it happened so many hours later. Plus, I’d eaten watermelon earlier in the week with no problem. It was weird.
What a shame. I know you are limited in what you can eat and to have something that you’ve grown make you ill is sad.
GOODNESS YOU HAVE A MAGICAL GARDEN !!!
HUGSSSSSSSSSSS
“Magical” is such a nice word for weird!
AW, Tobymelon! 🙂
Murphy looks ready to deal with those mutants! 😉 😛
Ha! Mother Nature sure has a sense of humor! 😀 Every summer some of our garden veggies end up look exactly like something they are not! 😁 A repeating one we get is squash that look like swans with beaks and long necks. Ha! 😀
Love your heartbeat! 🙂
I’m so sorry to hear about the watermelon issue. 😦
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
Do you ever take pictures of your swan neck squash? I’d love to see them!
I didn’t. But we ate one last night! 🙂
WEIRD IS MAGICAL !!!! I HAVE STRIVEN ALL MY 70 YEARS TO BE THE ROUND PEG THAT DOES FIT IN THE SQUARE HOLE !!
Symmetry is for people who lack imagination. Same can be said about “normal”. 😆
N A S A MANAGED IT WHEN APOLLO 13 BROKE ON THE WAY BACK TO EARTH . REMEMBER ? WE ALL HELD OUR BREATH THOSE HOURS !!
It’s funny to me how those people were heroes for thinking adaptively, but in my family “Do it right (the usual way) or don’t do it at all!” was the rule. With my health problems and with yours, we’ve had to become adept adaptive thinkers.
YES ! ITS NOT JUST THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX ITS GROWING THE TREE FOR THE WOOD TO MAKE THE BOX !!! 🙂
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Looking at those teenage mutant ninja vegetables kind of makes me scared, but that heart beet is cleverly awesome!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Vegetables – ha! 🤣
Oh dear! Are sure that you don’t live in the backyard of a nuclear reactor? 🙂
Your mutant veggie make me think of the county fair. Is this something you’ve ever attended? I know it’s a bit low-brow for some people, but I think it’s a lot of fun. I’m not sure what that say’s about me… won’t think about that right this second. Anyway, the veggies on display are sort of interesting. I like to see what the ribbon winners look like. Fair warning though, go to the fair early in the week otherwise the pumpkins and melons are caved in with rot and the baked goods are looking a bit on the stale side. The good news is that the textile and fine art entries and winners looks as new and clean as the day they were made!
Your watermelon reaction is a serious bummer! Would perhaps salting the melon liberally help? Just salt the heck out of it! Postural hypotension can be a real problem (orthostatic) and I imagine you might regularly suffer from that if watermelon can push you over the edge to wreck a day. Isn’t a new (meaning trending) illness knows as POTS? You may need a new doctor. Just a thought…
And awwwww…. I love the heartbeet! 🙂
Anony-mouse and The Terrier
We’re between Three Mile Island and East Palestine, so of course we have the most mutant veggies. 😂
I enjoy the county fair! I wish I could have taken my boys there. The smells would probably blow their minds.
Although watermelon was salted, it didn’t seem to make a difference. I’ve eaten melon before without having a problem. I don’t know why this day was so bad. Fortunately Dr. Poopyhead moved on to another practice. Yay. 😊
Hope you and The Terrier are having a good fall! 🍁 🍂
Oh dear, that Dr. Poopyhead needs a sock of doodoo upside the head! THose are some very strange veggies, by the way!
My prayer for Dr. Poopyhead is that she receives the same level of care and compassion from a doctor for someone she loves.
This year my garden got out of having submissions for my Gallery o’ Weird Vegetables by producing nothing at all. Not really what I was going for when I put all that work into planting. 🙄
I think there’s a book in that – “the garden that produced nothing at all.” I shall also pray for Dr Poopyhead.
Would that be a Dr. Seuss book? 😆
I think it should be a Toby book!
😂. I can guess the reason the garden had no vegetables…and I bet it has something to do with three hungry puppies!
They had no choice! Mom was broken and forgot to feed them!
Sadly, if mom merely blinks it is enough for them to consider themselves neglected.
Maybe I should have said “hope” and not “prayer”. A prayer like that would be too mean.
that is a sacred watermelon
It will probably bite back if I try to slice it. 😆