These pictures are going to be too big for the blog template, but oh well. You can’t see the detail if they’re any smaller.
I’d never thought much about what lentils look like when they’re growing. Turns out they look something like this when they’re just about ready to harvest — they’re inside the small flat pods:
Yellow peas, the kind that end up dried and in split pea soup, look like this:
And canola looks like this:
From a distance, a whole field of canola looks sort of feathery and delicate. It’s tough stuff, though, not much bothered by an energetic five-year-old running through it:
