Blooming Vegetables!

[trailingvortex]

We are growing potatos in the garden, and they are producing flowers!

I had no idea their flowers could be so beautiful.

Pretty Potato!

I have now started looking for the flowers of various common vegetables on the internet, but I still think potatos are the prettiest. The internets says that Marie Antoinette used to wear them in her hair.

Comments

[clarienne]

They are lovely. We have some too, but they are more white. I don't know what the flowers mean about how ready the potatos are.

[trailingvortex]

That's a stock picture from the internets, and my flowers are perhaps a touch darker shade.

No idea what it means about readiness either! Probably nothing. I assume that they are ready in autumn. I shall have to research.

[trailingvortex]

*checks on internet*

The beautiful flowers belie the utter evilness of courgettes. :P

[trailingvortex]

They tasked their nefarious agent "Mother" to force feed me them as a child.

[picks_at_flies]

AFAIK, if they are flowering they've gone too far. What breed are they?

[picks_at_flies]

... and when did you plant them?

[trailingvortex]

About three months ago?

The internet says you can harvest new potatoes a couple of weeks after they blossom, and fully mature ones "After the plant dies back", which I assume will be in Autumn.

[picks_at_flies]

It seems I was confusing my plants. I've now talked to my 'experts': main crop you wait until the flowers etc fall over (i.e. 'dies back'), so your internet gardening seems to be accurate.

This is why I leave gardening to others!

[oxeador]

So that is what caused Marie Antoinette her head.

[trailingvortex]

Of course! Your assumption of a causal link cannot possibly be mistaken in any way.