Comments on: Scary potato http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Heather http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Heather Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:11:01 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-473 <p>Oh how I wish I'd documented the Amazing Sprouting Onion of 2006! This thing was a full-on PLANT. You could watch it devour the oniony food source it was growing out of by the hour. It was trying reeeeeally hard to make a flower...finally, though, it tipped into the kitchen mini-blinds, got pinched, wilty...and then we went out of town for a week and a half so I just chucked it.</p> <p>It was more than 2 feet tall by the end, though...for an onion's reach must exceed its grasp, or what's a heaven for?</p> Oh how I wish I’d documented the Amazing Sprouting Onion of 2006! This thing was a full-on PLANT. You could watch it devour the oniony food source it was growing out of by the hour. It was trying reeeeeally hard to make a flower…finally, though, it tipped into the kitchen mini-blinds, got pinched, wilty…and then we went out of town for a week and a half so I just chucked it.

It was more than 2 feet tall by the end, though…for an onion’s reach must exceed its grasp, or what’s a heaven for?

]]> By: L.G. http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-203 L.G. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:10:33 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-203 <p>Just as well. Otherwise you'd end up with countless pots of sprouting former-produce cluttering the patio, and a kid who someday will have to be sent to college.</p> <p>Lore</p> Just as well. Otherwise you’d end up with countless pots of sprouting former-produce cluttering the patio, and a kid who someday will have to be sent to college.

Lore

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-201 mamster Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:01:42 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-201 <p>L.G., I'm ashamed to admit that I've already thrown the potato away. Then Iris threw some food at dinner, so I sold her on eBay. New Year's resolution: be less rash.</p> L.G., I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve already thrown the potato away. Then Iris threw some food at dinner, so I sold her on eBay. New Year’s resolution: be less rash.

]]> By: L.G. http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-200 L.G. Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:55:07 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-200 <p>I can never throw away something that's trying so hard to live. When a yukon gold started striving for life a few months ago I put it in a pot of dirt and watched it sprout almost twenty inches straight up before it fell over and turned all viney. Quite a conversation piece.</p> <p>Go, potato! Go!</p> <p>Lore</p> I can never throw away something that’s trying so hard to live. When a yukon gold started striving for life a few months ago I put it in a pot of dirt and watched it sprout almost twenty inches straight up before it fell over and turned all viney. Quite a conversation piece.

Go, potato! Go!

Lore

]]> By: Andrew Feldstein http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Andrew Feldstein Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:25:42 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-195 <p>I'm kvelling for you.</p> I’m kvelling for you.

]]> By: L http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/comment-page-1/#comment-193 L Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:46:13 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/16/scary-potato/#comment-193 <p>Looks like Edward Scissor-Potato!</p> <p>I have to admit, I'm a serial garlic sprouter.</p> Looks like Edward Scissor-Potato!

I have to admit, I’m a serial garlic sprouter.

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