Quacking shaped tomatoes as Shropshire gardener bags a pair of ducks
It's that time of year – when strange fruit and veg emerges from the garden.
And Shrewsbury gardener George Wall appears to have a knack for producing the weird and wonderful.
He says his tomatoes have formed themselves into little ducks.
George's wife Mary was first to spot the bird-like fruit growing in their greenhouse at their home in Abbots Road.
And she decided to let them blossom from ducklings into ducks before picking them to take a closer look.
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But to make sure the two little ducks came into fruition Mrs Wall had to keep her husband, who has a taste for tomatoes, out of the greenhouse.
Mr Wall, a retired long distance lorry driver, said: "We were very surprised that they looked like ducks. We've got about eight plants in the greenhouse and as my wife went down to pick them she saw the shape of them and left them up to develop.
"But they were beginning to grow too big and heavy for the plant so we picked them. We saw in the newspaper people send in their different shaped vegetables so we thought we would share ours.
"Mary had to keep them out of my reach while they were growing because fresh tomatoes straight off the plant are too tempting for me."
The Walls have, by coincidence, also managed to produce potatoes that look like seals.
They join a line of Shropshire Star readers who have unearthed oddly shaped vegetables. Another quacking find was a potato shaped like a duck in Ludlow and a spud shaped like Noddy in Shrewsbury.
More funny shaped food:
Dens potatos looks just like Noddy!
Pam's courgette looks a little quackers
Quacking find in Dorothea's Shropshire vegetable patch
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