What unusual vegetables are you growing ?
- Thread starter SpicyBob
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@SpicyBob that sounds like a cool list!
This year I want to try growing purple sweet potatoes. Not the Murasaki which have purple skin and white flesh, but the ones with purple flesh like the Okinawan or Stokes. I have some Stokes and Okinawan sweet potatoes put aside and am going to try to make slips from them come April. Apparently the Okinawans have a very long growing season (>120 days). Hopefully they'll be successful in zone 7a.
I'm also giving fig trees a try this year. Some friends and acquaintances gave me some cuttings from their trees and I gave it a shot-now I have a dozen fig trees. We'll see if that becomes my next addiction!
Not necessarily unusual but a little different: last year I grew Yamato Silver watermelon-green rind and white flesh, I highly recommend that one!
This year I want to try growing purple sweet potatoes. Not the Murasaki which have purple skin and white flesh, but the ones with purple flesh like the Okinawan or Stokes. I have some Stokes and Okinawan sweet potatoes put aside and am going to try to make slips from them come April. Apparently the Okinawans have a very long growing season (>120 days). Hopefully they'll be successful in zone 7a.
I'm also giving fig trees a try this year. Some friends and acquaintances gave me some cuttings from their trees and I gave it a shot-now I have a dozen fig trees. We'll see if that becomes my next addiction!
Not necessarily unusual but a little different: last year I grew Yamato Silver watermelon-green rind and white flesh, I highly recommend that one!
Tinkerbelle
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Sprout flowers for me apparently it's a cross between sprout tops and (yep that's right flowers 
) purple sprouting
) purple sprouting
Good luck with them and keep us posted!
Agree. We really like Komatsuna greens too.