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What unusual vegetables are you growing ?

@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!
 
I'm rather partial to perennials............

I grow

Good king Henry
Lovage
Scots Lovage
Scoronera (for leaves)
Sorrel
Hablitzia tamnoides
Taunton dean perennial kale
Sutherland kale ( not perennial) but self seeds like a demon

Victoria Rhubarb which was almost a religion to my Grand mother.

Probably a few others I've forgotten 🤣
 
Englander said:
I'm rather partial to perennials............

I grow

Good king Henry
Lovage
Scots Lovage
Scoronera (for leaves)
Sorrel
Hablitzia tamnoides
Taunton dean perennial kale
Sutherland kale ( not perennial) but self seeds like a demon

Victoria Rhubarb which was almost a religion to my Grand mother.

Probably a few others I've forgotten 🤣
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I've never heard of many of these and am fascinated reading each of their descriptions! We considered growing rhubarb this year and are looking into it. We love strawberry-rhubarb crisp and pies.
 
The main "odd" thing i grow every year is laksa leaf for my curries. Works well if you are out of coriander and the plant never bolts on me. Plus its super easy to clone at the end of each growing season.

One of these days i will get some culantro to grow but from what i hear it can be a pain to germinate and might be a total PITA to over winter.
 
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Google perennial vegetables 😎 alot less work very deep rooted I never have to water them also many will grow in the shade where annual veggies simply fail to grow.

Good king Henry will grow anywhere ! I have a GKH hedge along a very shady Scottish fence line in my garden, no traditional vegetables could survive there ! Probably why the Roman army took it with them everywhere :thumbsup:

Stephen
 
Trying jerusalem artichokes. It is supposed to be a survival crop and so I am giving it a try. I have 8 acres and I understand it is invasive. I might be very sorry someday that I planted it if establishes itself.
 
Thanks for mentioning horse radish. I will have to look into to it. Surprisingly native persimmon persimmons can come up from roots after be hit with a rotatory tiller for smaller saplings.
I have also planted some thornless honey locust that is another invasive, but yet a very american tree.
 
For madturo I just checked two of the tomato types I have going and the brandy wine have put on a few of what will be large tomatoes and I ate a few cherry tomatoes from one of the others. I see I also have some peppers that are now green. I think I need to add some fertilizer to these plants. They are planted in a sandy-clay soil. Lots of rain recently.
 
barnetmill said:
For madturo I just checked two of the tomato types I have going and the brandy wine have put on a few of what will be large tomatoes and I ate a few cherry tomatoes from one of the others. I see I also have some peppers that are now green. I think I need to add some fertilizer to these plants. They are planted in a sandy-clay soil. Lots of rain recently.
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Use something with less N for the Peppers like Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer.
Look at the many posted Pics in the other members Glogs & see the plants at different stages.

What date did you plant the Tomatoes & peppers out?
 
I have watched seed prices shoot sky high over the past 5 years.
Normally I don't save seed from the Asian Greens, just buy them in large packet$.

In Western North Carolina our Default Spring is Cooold into 80F & all the spring veggies Bolt.
Why not take advantage of that & save some Money?

Pac Choy, Tatsoi, Bok Choy, Blues, Joy Choy, Purple Lady Murasaki. We thinned the plants by eating & left the Mothers to seed.


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Marturo said:
Use something with less N for the Peppers like Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer.
Look at the many posted Pics in the other members Glogs & see the plants at different stages.

What date did you plant the Tomatoes & peppers out?
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I did not keep track of the dates this year. Since I have not fenced it off from the dogs, I can not add a fish product. I was doubtful of them even growing at all and I am very pleased. I have synthetic fertilizer, I will just try that for this year.
 
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