This is how we grow 'em in Southland! That's a swede, right there - 15kgs in its socks. Eat your heart out, northlanders. This swede and the boastful talk that goes with it, is headed for Auckland, where the editor of the NZGardener magazine has challenged me to a swede-off. If she can match this leviathan with one grown on the other island, I'll eat my... (starts with 's').
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Eating to much swede causes beard growth and grey hair!!!
Grey? Someone should've said something....
...too late now!
I am actually turning into a greybeard myself, completely swede unrelated.
Looks cool though, makes me look wise.......
Is your wife fooled?
No, not yet, she still thinks I'm an idiot.
Not enough grey hairs just yet you see, just a speckling.
Eat a swede.
I hear they taste like chicken!!
Everything tastes like chicken, from what I've heard, Shunda. Southland swedes however, taste like the Elixer of the Gods.
Oh! you are still talking about the vegetable, I had the wrong 'Swede', my mistake..........
Ah! The Frozen Swedes. Like chicken, yes.
wwoofers?
They do make that noise, Shunda, as you cook them.
I bet they do, I'm glad they're free range and organic!
A Southland swede, frosted at least once, gently cooked, mashed with Southland cream, and ground black pepper, served on its own or with other veg. - totally and utterly out of this world delicious.
Beautifully put, fred - may I quote you? I'm writing for a magazine and need such an endorsement.
By all means, Rg. My late father-in-law introduced me to the 'way' with the humble swede - we didn't get much in the way of frosts at home so my mother was delighted to learn of the effect of the frost, and I seem to remember it was my father who suggested the cream.
Salivating at the thought of the next swede!
The one pictured is a 'Dominion'. The ones growing in my garden are 'Doon Major'. The bigg'un's off a farm, urea-fed :-)
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