vegetables

"looking like paddy's market" was a phrase my mum used to describe any thing that was untidy (like my bedroom) :-) I spotted the Antrim Glen photo immediately - I have one taken from a nearby location from 2006 - little change - the hills have not moved but the farmland/field layout is different

Foxglove I hear you! Our house was broken into once and the Guards were wondering why the burglars had so thoroughly torn one of the bedrooms apart - mine! My mother was so ashamed admitting that it had looked that way before the burglary... :D (have since improved)

lol did you guys see my room before? lol We say "you can lose a camel there". :)

TJ Ooooh, that's a good one! Definitely occasions when the work desk hides the odd dromedary or two.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons lol don't forget the bed and the closet :) ... oh and the lazyboy and the mirror table ..... and uhh .. ok you got the picture i guess :)

I'm a kind of a city fella but I always thought swedes were blonde??? Seriously I thought that swedes were smaller and whiter than these. Apparently these were rarely used for human consumption until WW1, they were used to feed animals until then. When I was growing up they were referred to as Mangols!

Swordscookie Well, some of this series of photos are described as Swedish Turnips which I think was the photographer hedging his bets!

My instinct is swede, but then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga whilst known as swede in most British English speaking countries, this is known as turnip in Ireland!!!

And then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip "The leaves grow directly from the above-ground shoulder of the root, with little or no visible crown or neck (as found in rutabagas)" [rutabaga=swede - see link above!]. This seems to again make these swedes (in the British English sense, but not the Irish sense!) as the ones shown here DO have a neck I feel.

They look like swedes - turnips are much smaller and flatter. Swedes have orange flesh, turnips white.

Just to confuse matters, swedes were known as turnips where I grew up in Yorkshire (1950s) and they're called neeps in Scotland.

So far, the Swedes seem to have it! And [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22562862@N06] isn't there a traditional dish in Scotland that's "something and neeps" or "neeps and something", just like bacon and cabbage here?

my grandmother worked picking vegetables in South Florida in the early 1930's. My mom told me a little about it years ago. My grandfather worked in the turpentine camps in Northwest Florida, around Munson and Berrydale, just North of Milton, Florida.

goon_town_killer Thanks for the comment. We'd love to see photographs if your family has any...