amusement of the day

[kaberett]

I am going to be visiting my mother soon, and therefore she told me she was going to be putting a seed order in Shortly, and was there anything I wanted? There's a place in Torquay that would sell her heritage Austrian and Slovenian lettuces, some of which are green with red spots, you see...

... but she couldn't immediately remember the name -- we were on the phone for this, so once we were done and before she sent me details I shook the internet a bit and found! a seedmonger! in Devon! selling the heritage Austrian lettuce Speckled Trout!

... well it turns out it wasn't them at all, it was someone else. So there are multiple Devonshire seedmongers carrying heritage etc, which amuses me!

As for what I added to the order: red brussels sprouts and red/purple dual-use onions (which I'm intending to grow as spring onions). Not ordered: Rossa di Treviso, of which I wanted half a pack or thereabouts (it goes well in fondue, and for that matter fondue appears to be a context in which I do not mind how bitter the stuff is), because my mother already has an unopened pack! so we're going to split that instead.

But! Additionally and furthermore! The part that particularly amused me! Also not purchased: Wonderberries. Description:

Quick and easy to grow in a container, garden or green house, producing thousands of small, black, ornamental fruits which we recommend should not be eaten even though it may be recommended elsewhere online. The leaves of this plant are reputedly narcotic, and are sometimes smoked as a canabis legal-drug substitute, and they should not be used thus, and we DO NOT recommend this practice.

Comments

[redsixwing]

> and they should not be used thus

*snort*

Congratulations upon your seeds! I hope they all grow well.

[ludy]

That is some serious Do Not Do This Cool Thing….
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoNotDoThisCoolThing

[ewt]

I would be pretty wary of the pretty black nightshades myself, tbh.

[kaberett]

I mean yes, and I'm not going to buy any, but I am also amused by the example of the genre. :-p

[ewt]

Sometime I will try and find the Amazon review I stumbled across for some kind of hydroponic tomato feed.

People were very happy with how potent their tomatoes were, and the size of the tomato buds.

[kaberett]

... oh my

[doseybat]

Yes wow black-fruited Solanum section Solanum eaten in the UK! I probably wouldn't either because do I really trust whoever identified these before selling them to me?

[ruric]

Oh those wonderberries look *very* edible!

From elsewhere - ripe berries are harmless - unripe green barries *amy* be poisonous. Uh huh. I'll pass on messing with nighshades *G*

[fyreharper]

That Rossa photo looks like an octopus :)

[damerell]

Like the Prohibition-era "grape juice" kits that told you what you should not do or an illegal beverage would result. In detail.

[kaberett]

Precisely.

[damerell]

Come to think of it, like the DVD player I have which tells you what not to do on the remote control because it will turn off region-locking.