From our Family’s Album of Gardening Lore:
I found this clipping in my family album and thought it would be fun to share with all the Capper’s Readers. I’m sure you all have oddly-shaped vegetable stories, too!
December 23rd, 1976
This strange-looking item was brought into the Time-Republican office by Mrs. Engelbrecht. It weighs three pounds. She stated at the time: “The strange, unusual vegetable is actually numerous vegetables in one. Mr. Seggebruch of Belmont Acres has a beautiful garden each year, and when he showed this strange-looking freak to me, I thought it would be interesting to have a picture of it in the Times. Last year, when he dug the carrots, he picked this one out to put back into the ground in the corner of his garden and see if he could reap some good seed from it. Well, it came up again this spring in a cluster of tops, but no seed. When it was time to dig again, this is what Mr. Seggebruch found. One huge carrot, cracked open in several places, and one can see many little carrots through those ‘windows,’ twisted and packed inside. A fantastic and unusual sight to behold. I am his sister, and that’s the way it is.”
What odd looking vegetables have you found in your garden?