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wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:33 pm Post subject: Pink vegetables

I have a four year old girl who (being four) is not very keen on vegetables. However (being a four year old girl) she is mad about anything pink, so we are choosing pink vegetables to grow this year. I have purpley pink cauliflower, beans and tomatoes and stripy pink beetroot. What else might we try? (strawberries, cherries and raspberries go without saying. I'm also looking forward to a 'pink berry'!)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:37 pm Post subject:
They have pink blueberries nowadays, and radishes, and toms, borlotti beans have a hint of pink about em

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:38 pm Post subject:
Red Orach has pink flowers

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:44 pm Post subject:
spuds do pink. chard, rhubarb for next year quite a few of the beans are pink (in green)

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:49 pm Post subject:
Pink aubergines! https://www.seedaholic.com/aubergine-rosa-bianca.html

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 4:50 pm Post subject:
You can get purple carrots and spuds.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 6:20 pm Post subject:
Purple doesn't happen until they are about eight.

VM

Joined: 23 Nov 2007
Posts: 1748
Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 7:57 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Pink aubergines!
https://www.seedaholic.com/aubergine-rosa-bianca.html

Have you bought seeds from these people? I haven't come across them before.

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 8:31 pm Post subject:
I was going to suggest pink grapefruit but apparently 20-30 years to fruit

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 8:34 pm Post subject:
What about edible pink flowers?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 9:36 pm Post subject:

VM wrote:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Pink aubergines!
https://www.seedaholic.com/aubergine-rosa-bianca.html

Have you bought seeds from these people? I haven't come across them before.

Yes, I have quite a varied set to try this season (so no info yet on germination etc)

No, wait, that's a lie, I did throw in some tiny tom tomato seeds to grow indoors over winter, they are doing very well considering.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 9:48 pm Post subject:
Purple is second best (because it's my favourite). I forgot about spuds - we have pink fir apple chitting. Rhubarb is in already. I'd completely forgotten about chard. I'll get some rainbow carrots and I was considering rainbow aramanth - is that the same as orach? I hopefully have a pink blueberry on the way. Do you think flowers count as one of your give a day? If so, I think we're sorted!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 9:54 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Do you think flowers count as one of your give a day? If so, I think we're sorted!

Nasturtiums do. Can you get pink ones?

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 10:38 pm Post subject:
How did you manage to keep tomatoes going in the winter Northern Monkey Girl ?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 15 11:53 pm Post subject:
They're on my bedroom windowsill. South facing, painted white all around. They went a bit leggy, are supposed to only be 12-18 inches max, and didn't really do much until maybe Jan/Feb?

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