"Wow! When was the last time we had a Farm Girl's Corner!" said Uncle Mac from the corner by the potbellied stove, "I remember the last time I had Farm Girl cornered."
He did a Groucho Marx with his eyebrows.
"It was great! But when did we start acting like a serious gardening blog again is what I really mean."
"We are a serious gardening blog, a moribund serious gardening blog, but a serious gardening blog none the less. It's time we star..."
"Moribund?" said Uncle Mac.
"Moribund. It means..."
"I know what it means." said Unc, "are we that bad?"
"Oh come on we've been on life support for a year or so. It's time we got back in gear, in my view."
"Carry on, my daughter." said Mac.
"If I were your daughter, you'd be in jail, you whiskery old varmint. However..."
"Hi, I'm Farm Girl and welcome to Farm Girl's Corner. Today, I'm going to talk about a few new crops we are going to try this season. Last year as you may but probably do not recall was a very bad growing season here at the Shed. This year, we are trying only three new crops; a tomato, a squash, and an oniony type thingy."
"Let's not go all technical on our reader, FG, you know how confused she gets. 'oniony type thingy' might nudge her into befuddlement."
"Stay with me here Angus you might learn something."
"First we are trying Burpee's 'Steakhouse' tomato. It is a hybrid, but it is so darn huge we can't help but want see what they are on to. It is reputed to go to three pounds and yet have a superb flavor. We will keep you informed on that of course."
"Then from Gurney we have the 'Kappa' hybrid cooking onion, which is an onion-shallot hybrid with the best qualities of both. Which is why I like to call it an oniony type thingy."
"Also from Gurney's we'll be trying a huge golden butternut squash called 'Argonaut', a beautiful looking fruit with deep golden external tones, running to 30 pounds and reputed to be delicious. We'll be the judge of that but we are hoping advance billing is correct."
"Er, farm Girl?"
"Yes?"
"Don't you think we should be showing folks pictures of these veggies which we will be trying out?"
"Why yes I do Uncle Mac, but it seems Blogger does not agree. People can follow the links to see a picture and in fact find out about the veggies in question, while we work on the picture problem."
"I see", said Mac, "also, lots of folks look us up just to catch a peek at your bu...pretty face. We don't wish to disappoint them, do we."
"Of course not, they can simply scroll down a few posts to see all the pretty face they want. Particularly if they go to the post on steatopygia. That should satisfy the most dedicated pretty face man."
"Well. We will need to fix this picture problem."
"Indeed we will"
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Gratuitous link to Farm Girls pretty face:
3 comments:
Isn't hybrid sorta like plants having silicone injections to make then larger?
Dan, you my be right about that, but they are some cool things to grow on occasion. You just shouldn't make a habit of it and only rely on them.
Uh-uh. Hybridization is a completely natural process. Dan may be thinking of genetic engineering.
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