Something totally wierd happened today. After work I went out to pull some weeds from and take a look at our finally blossoming garden. Adam and I have a very large garden in our backyard, and although we only planted about half of it purposefully this year (the other half planted itself) it's coming alone quite nicely. We've got several tomato plants, peppers, zucchini, acorn squash, eggplant, cucumbers, snow peas and green beans all coming up. Some stuff is doing better than others, the zucchini and acorn squash are trying to take over, and weve gotten some decent snow peas, but much to my dismay the cucumbers have not really done well.
Last year the cucumbers that I planted from seed never came up at all, so this year I bought 3 starter plants. I put the in mounds at the beginning of the season, at the same time I planted the zucchini from seed, and hoped things would be better this year. Today when I went out to weed, I noticed that we had cucumber plants finally, but some really big thistles had appeared in the middle of them. I went and got my gloves and pulled out the biggest one to discover that it wasn't a weed at all, but a TURNIP! in the middle of the cucumber plant!!! We didn't plant any turnips!!! How it got there I am clueless, but there were some in each of the hills. I pulled 6 or 7 in total ranging in size from like a large radish to bigger than Adam's fist! Talk about wierd!
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