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["WILLIAM JONES" <billj AT harborside.com>]

We've been growing an Andean tuber called _olluco_ for many years now.  I've 
managed to keep two distinct varieties alive.  One has long red stems and 
pure yellow tubers; the other has shorter, green stems, and yellow tubers 
with red spots.
Last year I was clearing out the tubers, which grow at the end of long 
runners like potatoes, and I found a sport!  It was a new color of tuber I'd 
never seen before.  This one is a clear medium purple.  We saved it and 
planted it this year.  The plant looks a little more like the red-stem kind, 
except they're just deep bronzy pink, not red.  It's also on the viny side, 
somewhere between the two others, but has somewhat smaller leaves.  It will 
be nice to see if if sets some more purple tubers.  It's every gardener's 
dream.
Last night, on the Eve of Lugh, I had a dream about the new olluco.  It was 
my first vivid dream since my nightmare at rehab, surprising since I'd had my 
first cannabiscuit in many weeks, and you expect dream rebound upon cessation 
of therapy, not upon resumption.  In the dream, it was night, and I was 
trying to track down the tubers which should have formed while I was away.  
All I remember was quite a runaround, riding in old cars, grilling suspects, 
climbing over walls.  Finally I got to where they had been stored.  There 
were only three, small and perfectly round, and one or two appeared 
slug-eaten, but not a total loss.