Brent Lancaster's Strange Food

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You can e-mail them to brent_lancaster@link.freedom.com, drop them by our office at 707 S. Main St. in downtown Burlington or mail them to PO Box 481, Burlington, NC 27215. Send them to the attention of Brent’s Strange Food.

Cucumber in the round

Walter Jeffries of Hanover Road in Graham sent in photos of unusual cucumbers that came off two different vines, both of which will only produce strange cucumbers like the ones shown. Another plant rooted nearby produces normal cucumbers....

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Double-barrel squash

Shirley Fogt of Mebane brought in this unusual yellow squash....

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German sweet potatoes

Hal Crutchfield shows off a 15-pound German Aboveground Sweet Potato, also known as a variety of winter squash. Hal's wife, Sylvia, said the large tuber "cuts like a pumpkin" and should be treated as a sweet potato in cooking. The seed was obtained from...

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A man and a melon

Bennie Davis shows off a midget watermelon, tail end of the crop that volunteered out in his flowers on West Davis Street. Bennie said there were five volunteer watermelons that sprang up, all pretty good size and one better than average. We did the little...

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The tomato man

Winfred "Beadie" Sumner gives away bags of fresh vegetables to the needy each year. Sumner...

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34-pound pumpkin

Gene Wilson shows off a pumpkin that came up in her garden this year. ...

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15-foot tomato plant

Eugene Shoffner of Holts Store Road in Burlington brought in a photo of his Giant Delicious tomato plant, which grew to 15 feet along the side of a gazebo. One of the tomatoes grew to 2 1/4 pounds....

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Heart Shaped Spud

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James Davis brought in this potato, shaped like a heart, but was too shy to be photographed....

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