My brother, after seeing a field of just planted tomato vines (nothing visible but rows of 20inch high wooden steaks) believed it was a farm that grew wood sticks.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a tornado was a tomato and lots of tomato juice would got flying around.— sam
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- I used to think it was the United STEAKS of America and that cows must be really important in the U.S.— Jake
- I thought the Pledge of Allegiance was "to the United Steaks of America," and that we were saying it to cows.— bessy
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon