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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Digeroo on November 04, 2017, 08:00:57

Title: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Digeroo on November 04, 2017, 08:00:57

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41857694

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Borlotti on November 04, 2017, 12:01:31

He should have gone to Specsavers. At least the police say the funny side of the story.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: gray1720 on November 04, 2017, 16:59:25

Talk about a marrow escape!

Adrian
(getting coat)

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Paulh on November 04, 2017, 17:41:03

One year a plot holder left overgrown courgettes unpicked, They looked rather like mortar bombs, I suppose, particularly as the colour faded.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Vinlander on November 06, 2017, 11:32:04

Found this while investigating achocha:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Exploding_cucumber_%28Cyclanthera_explodens%29_in_slow_motion.webm

Cheers.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Borderers1951 on November 06, 2017, 16:39:51

Better safe than sorry.  As an ex-squaddie, I know that unexploded ordinance is nasty at best.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on November 09, 2017, 19:35:29

I've dug up shrapnel; a genuine unexploded isn't impossible.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Digeroo on November 18, 2017, 10:26:59

Is it me?  I cannot seem to open Vinlander's link

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: laurieuk on November 18, 2017, 11:03:34

It makes me think back to during the war when my grandfather gave my mother very large marrows to make marrow jam. I was carrying one these home on the bus when a person asked me if I had  one of Hitlers bombs . Mum used to make marrow and ginger jam out of the great big yellow ripe marrows.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Vinlander on November 18, 2017, 15:15:02

Quote from: Digeroo on November 18, 2017, 10:26:59

Is it me?  I cannot seem to open Vinlander's link

It's the first time I've tried it from the post and it works for me - even when I log in as Guest  - but if all else fails, highlight the whole thing (from well before to well after) cut & paste into the URL line. If that doesn't work try pasting into Notepad (which removes all formatting) then cut & paste from there.

Or just google "Cyclanthera explodens youtube" - there are a few videos - the one with tweezers in frame and spines like a wonky horse chestnut is the best, any that show a hairy oval fruit are a different species (squirt cucumbers).

I can understand why squirt cucumbers are green - they work on liquid pressure, but the Cyclanthera is green outside and dry inside - I was expecting it to be brown (like exploding bean pods).

Cheers.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Paulines7 on November 18, 2017, 21:28:01

It works for me too.

Title: Re: Unexploded bombs
Post by: Digeroo on November 21, 2017, 07:28:54

I have tried every way but it simply asked which program I want to use to open it.

Have now watch the youtube video it is fun.