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1. This common berry is just as happy rambling wild along country lanes or at the edge of the woods, but my true love prefers to grow a cultivated thornless variety in her garden. The juice that stains your hands after picking is red or purplish, but when ripe, the berry itself lives up to its name. What is it called?
2. Southern peas come in many colors, but one of the most well known is named for the black spot that appears on the otherwise cream-colored peas. My true love says they do best with a long hot growing season. What are they called?
3. This common leaf-lettuce variety is named for the color of its seeds and a person. Not much seems to be known about the person, but he or she probably wasn't a yellow cartoon character. What is this ruffled lettuce variety called?
4. Fairly rare today, these berries that grow on thornless bushes come in three colors, red, white and black. My true love makes sauce from the the black ones. The red and white taste like average berries, but the black ones have an unusual, strong flavor that many people either love or hate. Adding to the confusion, there are dried grapes called by the same name. What are these black berries of the Ribes genus?
5. This sweet, not-too-big heirloom watermelon variety has a very dark green skin, which probably inspired the "black" in its name. Though watermelons originally came from Africa, the other part of this variety's name is based on a nation that traded extensively with the New World and was partly responsible for introducing watermelons across the Atlantic. What is this variety called?
6. The name of this heirloom variety of green bean includes the word "black" of course, but it also contains a holiday. My true love raises them mostly for eating when green, but they're also good as a dry soup bean when they mature, and that's when they live up to their name "black", because the dry seeds themselves are shiny black. What variety are they?
7. My true love likes this old standard variety of a certain vegetable because it ripens early, and it lives up to its name. It's shiny and such a dark purple that one could easily call it black. The variety has the same name as a famous children's book, while the veggie itself is named after another food it sort of resembles in flavor.
8. This radish variety supposedly goes back to the 1500s. It's three or four times as big as the little red radishes one usually sees and, as one might suspect from the name, is black-skinned, but has white flesh. My true love likes it chopped on salads or boiled and mixed with mashed potatoes, but people also claim it has health benefits and one can buy capsules of its extract. What is this geographically-named radish called?
9. The Black Krim tomato has dark purplish skin and flesh. That's just not right; tomatoes ought to be red. But my true love grows it anyway, and if I close my eyes, I have to admit the flavor is wonderful. This heirloom tomato supposedly comes from Russia near the Ukraine where it was said to be found beside what sea?
10. This prolific vegetable has dark green skin and pale yellowish flesh. My true love grows the variety called "Black Beauty". Even though it's an older variety, she likes it because it's not a hybrid, so she can save her own seeds. She picks it while it's still small, about 6-8" long, and fries it, makes it into bread, and sneaks the rest onto the neighbors' porch. What vegetable is it?
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