Interpretation Fun

New color??

I'm going to cheat and sneak this in here before the new color becomes official ^_^

Milk it
a butterfly's wings
Transform the World
believe in yourself
Beat Your Own Wings

* COPY AND PASTE BADGE CODE

I am completely loving Wordofmouse's pumpkin/squash colours at the moment so I thought I would nominate one for today. Also, does anyone have ideas as to what we might do for tomorrow's big 800 celebration?

* COPY AND PASTE BADGE CODE

Although, those veggies in the picture, not squash but eggplants, just sayin' ^_^









Incal again! Try and stop me ^_~

eighteyed wrote:

Although, those veggies in the picture, not squash but eggplants, just sayin' ^_^

I'll admit I just used Wourdofmouse's image without thinking too much about it but after reading your comment I did a quick google. Apparently eggplant is a type of squash, thus eggplant and purple squash are two different names for the same vegetable so you're both right:)

No, no ^_^ Squashes and pumpkins are gourds, whereas eggplants are part of the nightshade family, more closely related to tomatoes! They act alike, though, in the pot.

You are clearly far more learned on the subject then I. I bow to your gardening wisdom:)

eighteyed wrote:

No, no ^_^ Squashes and pumpkins are gourds, whereas eggplants are part of the nightshade family, more closely related to tomatoes! They act alike, though, in the pot.

I am a hairsplitter, is what I am, and you can just swat me anytime ^_^
But it is true that I have devoured beaucoup de gardening books and magazines.

Oh my Gourd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I certainly seemed to have set the cat amongst the pigeons with my horticultural short
comings! - I do apologise...

I agree that eggplants (or Aubergines as they are called in these parts) are NOT squash - the question was really what was in the picture?

I searched specifically for 'purple squash' and did actually pause at the picture... it just doesn't look like the aubergines we get here as it's far TOO purple and more sinious in shape....the problem is there are many different kinds of aubergine and they don't all look the same...and there appears to be an even wider variety of shapes and colours for gourds / squash... courgettes (zucchini) are squash as are pumpkins but look nothing like each other whereas a gherkin looks like a courgette but is not a squash at all...

The trouble with image searches is they not only sometimes throw up images with wrongly attributed tags but they mean genuine errors get replicated across the internet.

Before I rename it though I'm going to double check for an actual variety of purple squash.

....image tagged as 'purple squash'



...little pale aubergines


.... and the aubergine as I know it!


...................Okay so it appears to be a picture of a variety of long aubergine called 'Ping Tung' and although there's a purple version of almost every vegetable you can think of I can't find a single variety of purple squash! :-(

eighteyed wrote:

I am a hairsplitter, is what I am, and you can just swat me anytime ^_^
But it is true that I have devoured beaucoup de gardening books and magazines.