Unusual coloured Veg

[Chuckles]

Thought it might be interesting to get everyones views on different coloured veg. What has anyone grown and do they taste the same as the traditional colour.

Have copied these from another thread to get us started ;D

annbess said:

I believe the new black tomatoes, beige carrots and blue flesh potatoes are set to make a big comeback next year.

These used to be grown in Victorian times but fell out of favour when newer varieties were introduced. can`t tell you much about disease resistence as not much is known.

I know Wisley did a trial of beige carrots one year not sure of the outcome but you can purchase the seeds now so maybe they were successful. hope this helps.

roan said:

Interested to hear your comments on the blue or purple potato.

Here in New Zealand we have a similar potato called a Maori potato. It is quite small and elongated, looks black when dug up, but turns purple when cooked. Oh, and it's quite delicious!

greety said:

Hi Annbess and Roan, it's interesting to here views on some of the unusual coloured veg you can apparently get these days. I'm not sure on some, maybe because of the traditional colours we are used to. I reckon some of my carrot seeds were cross contaminated with a pale coloured one, only had an odd few and I have to say whilst they looked odd they tasted like, well carrots ;D

Any chance of a piccy of the Maori potato Roan, can't imagine having a heap of purple on my dinner plate ;D

roan said:

Hi Chuckles

We have grown them in our garden, but don't have any at the moment. Found this picture though, just to give you an idea.



This variety is called Tutaekuri

Thanks Roan, what can I say WOW what a fab colour, still not sure how it would look on a plate

I've just ordered these to try, from The Real Seed Site that Skarloey mentioned

Sweet Chocolate sweet pepper - A chocolate-brown sweet semi-bell pepper

Orange Banana Tomato - A fine heirloom tomato - orange and slightly bent!

Gold Medal Multicolour Beefsteak Tomato Originally from the Ben Quisenberry Collection, this is a large, sweet, juicy golden beefsteak that is mixed colours inside: yellow , pink, and orange! The colours are swirled together - even inside

White Beetroot

[carolann]

What a great idea Chuckles. I have not tried any before but I have got some Black Toms for next season. Not sure about the spuds though but they are a great colour.

[Dutchy]

I ordered the purple potato, a purple haze Carrot and a green and orange striped middle large tom.
And LL send me seeds for purple podded peas but the peas are green so maybe that does not count.
This thread will have to stretch well into the new year if ever I am to comment on how they did.

[isabella]

These are some of the coloured veg we grew this year

In the past I have grown all sorts of coloured tomatoes and purple carrots - these were only purple on the outside though which was a bit disappointing

[Dutchy]

Hi Isabella, your pics have gone missing

The purple carrot you grew was it orange inside before or after cooking?

[Deleted]

hello all i grew purplecarrots this year .the ywere great .they tasted the same ans were orange inside.
when i boiled them they turned the water bright green .VERY ODD
but iloved them and will be doing them again next year.
heres a pic.

[bagpuss]

I grew some black cherry tomato's this year, which tasted really nice. Other than that, I did try last year to grow some red carrots, but they weren't very successful.

[isabella]

Are my pics still missing

[Dutchy]

Bit late sorry. No they have arrived and are visible in full colour. Thank you.

Bright green cooking water? hm funny, coming from a purple carrot.

[Chuckles]

I have the following on the go, whats anyone else done/doing this year

Sweet Chocolate sweet pepper - A chocolate-brown sweet semi-bell pepper

Orange Banana Tomato - A fine heirloom tomato - orange and slightly bent!

Gold Medal Multicolour Beefsteak Tomato Originally from the Ben Quisenberry Collection, this is a large, sweet, juicy golden beefsteak that is mixed colours inside: yellow , pink, and orange! The colours are swirled together - even inside

White Beetroot

Dwarf Yellow French Beans

[farmersboy]

Im sorry,but i cant deal with this,on my plate i like to see,red beetroot,orange carrots,green peas,lettuce,beans,white potatoes,red toms,although i have to admit that some of the yellow ones are nice,someone once gave me some black spuds,and when i saw them on my plate,it put me right off my dinner,and that takes a lot,i can say

[nightowl]

Back in the 70s my OH-at-the-time brought me home a sack of purple spuds

I got quite excited , til I discovered he's bought them cheap cos they were animal-feed spuds, and dyed purple cos they were classed as unfit for human consumption!!!

(Actually they were fine!) ;D

[Tig]

I'm having a go with the Dwarf French Bean Purple Teepee (which according to the packet go green when cooked fb

Got some yellow toms - Golden Sunrise

x Tig

[Deleted]

;D ;D ;D I love to grow the unusual, that's part of the fun of a plot ...

However .... trying to persuade the family to eat my little curiosities is quite anothe ballgame!!

[Jardack]

Chuckles - would love to see a pic of the multicoloured beefstake toms when they are grown pretty please! They sound really different...

Jardack

[carolann]

Oh me to please Chuckles, I love the big Beefys and try to grow at least one plant each year. The white Beetroot are coming along, at what size do you pull them up please? Never grown BR before so dont know how big to let them grow.

[Deleted]

Sneaked out to the plot this morning ... to empty out flooded buckets and after all this rain I have found I have some quite respecable Golden Beetroot coming along! I tried the Choggia pink/white striped jobs last year but forgot to sow them this year ... might still be time!

[Deleted]

here is list of unusual coloured Veg colours I have grown
potatoes:red,blue,yellow,purple.,orange
tomato:red,white,black brown, purple,green, yellow
cauliflower : orange,green,purple
bell peppers:white,yellow orange,red, brown, purple
carrots:white purple,red,yellow
pumpkins: pink
beans pod: purple,yellow white
sweet potato:purple, white

If you want a copy the varieties i will list them later

[farmersboy]

Jul 5, 2008 8:27:27 GMT carolann said:

Oh me to please Chuckles, I love the big Beefys and try to grow at least one plant each year. The white Beetroot are coming along, at what size do you pull them up please? Never grown BR before so dont know how big to let them grow.

Anywhere between a hens egg,and tennis ball size is ok,Carolann

[isabella]

Some of the Tomatoes I have grown this year

Top - Old Ivory Egg

Middle - Green Zebra,Premium Supersweet & Goldstar

Bottom - Sunbelle,Sungold & Sweet Olive

They all taste lovely

[Tig]

How do you know when the Green Zebra are ripe Isabella? (beautiful toms by the way

x Tig

[isabella]

Hello Tig - The Green Zebra in the photo was ripe - they take on a slightly yellowy tinge.
I had it in my salad ;D

[Dutchy]

Hey I lost this thread.



In this pic you can see the Purple haze carrots which were lovely and kept colour after cooking.
Lovely sweet taste.
I had black skinned Schwartze Hungarin spuds.



They were bright purple under the skin and then very white.
Turned the cooking water blue and for a moment I though the spuds being yellow had gone green.
That was a bit of a scare.
Baking or frying them was better. They are lovely and tasty that way but simply cooked I think a tad on the dry side.
Good to know the Zebra does not have to go orange and green stiped but mildly yellow thanks for that.
The purple toms never arrived and the replacement was a dissappointment taste wise.
The curved thingy in the first pic was supposed to be a yellow cucumber but it was ripe as it was and already forming too much seed so I suppose it will never get yellow. Maybe the last one for harvesting seeds instead of cucumber

I hope evry one is having a much fun with these veg as I am.

[isabella]

Lovely veggies Dutchy It is so exciting to grow your own veggies isn't it

[Tig]

Thanks for the info on the Green Zebra - I would have had a long wait for a red one

x Tig

[jean]

Chuckles, did you harvest any white beetroot, if so what did you think ? I don't think I will grow them again, although the taste was fine, I just didn't like the colour, it was quite off putting and I can't imagine making Borsch with the white variety

[Chuckles]

I sure did JL, posted on the Beetroot trials thread

Jul 30, 2008 12:32:48 GMT Chuckles said:

Mine haven't done quite as well as I thought they might but I've never grown them before so have nothing to compare with. Got a bit curious today and pulled the 3 largest looking ones up. Have cooked and peeled them to have with my chicken salad tonight. The largest one is just a bit smaller than a medium sized egg. They smell good ;D

Aug 3, 2008 10:07:20 GMT Chuckles said:

Well they tasted good Just inspected the rest of the crop and nothing looks like it's going to fatten up they are only as thick as my finger and 1" long, maybe they have been dry in the RB praps I should have watered them more.

I sowed them end of April so they should ready now shouldn't they ? Am I too late to try sowing some more I wonder ?

I pulled the rest up because of thier lack of size and didn't get round to sowing anymore but I'll try them again next year

[Dutchy]

I tasted my first Green Zebra or should I say yellow and green zebra?
It was lovely though a very nice sweet tom and no matter what fungus tries to get at it I will try it again next year.
( the non tasty Olive tom got blight and is now binned the Zebra though having one or two brown leaves is doing fine. next time I will remove all infested leaves even when in doubt as I do want more fruits of this one )
Side stepping it a bit:
Beetroot and white funny indeed but why did they stay so small? I have red crapaudine beetroot going and as it is carrot shaped wonder when on earth to pull them up.
How do you know a beetroot is ready.


And yes Isabella veggies are good fun despite the hard work.

[Tig]

I have harvested some of the dwarf french beans Purple Teepee - very dark looking, cooking them for tea tonight!

[Chuckles]

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