plants

[sistawendy]

Wasabia japonica -- maybe my least characteristic impulse purchase to date, on Vashon
Eugenia garyophyllata -- cloves, whose oil is a noticeable ingredient in a hippy but surprisingly effective herbicide that I sprayed on...
Ranunculus repens -- fucking creeping buttercup,
Taraxacum officinale -- devil spawn dandelion, and
Arabidopsis thaliana -- those damn things with the tiny white flowers that shoot seeds in your eyes when you pull them, like something out of the old Star Trek

Comments

[vorona.livejournal.com]

Wow, you bought a wasabi plant? "That's HOT."

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

You just throw the rhizomes in the blender, the man said. The leaves are way tasty, too.

[vorona.livejournal.com]

"Throw the rhizomes in the blender" sounds dancey.

[deadrose.livejournal.com]

You were on Vashon, and you didn't tell me!?!?!

Now I'm terribly curious who you bought the wasabi from, so that I can go buy some - at a discount if it's Pete.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

You were on Vashon, and you didn't tell me!?!?!

D'oh! I was with Her Nibs, the Wendling, and a couple of friends of ours who live in Seattle, one of whom is four years old. We just had a picnic at Ober Park and herded the kids out of the blackberries for an hour. There will be a next time, though.

I got the wasabi from a Japanese-looking guy at the farmers' market. I didn't get his name.