What's the best-looking veg out there? Good looking flowers, fruits, leaves, etc? I know taste is the most important thing, but I like having fun with my plot too! Am compiling a list for the blog.
Quote from: FennelandFern on January 24, 2010, 21:15:59
What's the best-looking veg out there? Good looking flowers, fruits, leaves, etc? I know taste is the most important thing, but I like having fun with my plot too! Am compiling a list for the blog.
I like the unusual, so white cucumbers, purple carrots, etc..
Purple Cape Cauli and Burgundy Red Potatoes every time... :)
I think the flowers on Borage are hard to beat. :)
G x
Whitecurrants with the sun coming through the berries, golden beetroot - great in stews, aubergines with purple stems and violet fruits (slim jim), chillies with purple stems and black fruits (black hungarian), purple artichokes (but avoid the ones with a thorn at the tip of each scale), black figs, apple trees with golden young bark and big pink flowers (roughly half my heritage collection), purple seedless grapes on a sunny wall, etc. etc.
Food plants are the real and talented beauties of horticulture - flowers are just blowsy tarts (apologies to Withnail & I).
Pink Fir Apple spuds and Kirschklumpen tomtoes :D Beauty is in the eye of the beholder......
Red Celery and Bright lights chard, some of the toms are great too Silvery Fir tree with it's pretty foliage and some of the bicolour toms, Copia or even Ananas Noire. Fairytale aubergine, Riot hot pepppers,Cardoons. Some of the beans, there is name escapes me has several different coloured flowers, I think it is Sadies Horse bean, Cheddar cauliflower. Yugoslavian Finger fruit squash,looks like a cows udder but pretty,Batman pumpkins,Dragon Tongue beans,red brussel sprouts, Calico popcorn with it's multi coloured cobs,some of the kales are lovelyl,emon cucumbers,purple kohlrabi., they are some stunning lettuces,I love Freckles, red spring onions,many of the squasheseg crookneck,festival,turks turban and the blues like Triamble.
Oh this is fun, what a super plot you will have.
Sorry for the tphos my spellcheck won't go
XX Jeannine
XX Jeannine
I don't think you can beat dead straight rows of onions and leeks, doesn't matter the variety though red onions are rather gorgeous. Spoils the look though when they run to seed.....
my huge fielderkraut and kalibos cabbage were the best looking veggies, plus the sunflowers with squash winding through them :)
oh the spiral cauliflower/broccoli, Romanesco.
Cavalo Nero Kale (not mine though, as its only about 4" high and decimated by slugs). Cardoons... artfully planted rows of carrots interspersed with spring onions... pumpkins.. purple sage and french lavender.
I too love the spiralling romanescos - like a 3D version of those mandelbrot set simulations that were all the rage 10 years ago - http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/06/08/benoit-mandelbrot/
Quote from: Vinlander on January 25, 2010, 20:44:43
I too love the spiralling romanescos - like a 3D version of those mandelbrot set simulations that were all the rage 10 years ago - http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/06/08/benoit-mandelbrot/
Cut a spiralling romanesco today from the plot (along with some purple sprouting broc, main stem).
Crystal apple/lemon cucumbers (small, roundish, yellow cucumbers), pumpkins (turks turban looks interesting, though not grown it myself).
Loving the lists chaps! Personally I love bright lights chard, especially at the moment as along with cavolo nero (which looks like a lovely palm tree), the chard is the only thing that's giving my veg patch any glam at all!
keep the suggestions coming!
Swiss Chard for me too !! Borlotti Beans are really pretty !!
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Duke :)