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🗓️ 15 February 2018
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We've talked about unique varieties in the past, but I've never done a color recommendation. So here are four different dark purple / black veggie varieties to try!
Keep Growing,
Kevin
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about four varieties of |
0:06.3 | Vegetables that you can grow that are black that normally would not be black, right? So we're going to talk about a tomato variety, a |
0:15.0 | bean variety, a popcorn variety, and a carrot variety, which is my absolute |
0:19.8 | favorite, and I am so excited to grow this this year. |
0:23.0 | You have absolutely no idea how excited I am. |
0:25.0 | So let's get into it. |
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0:54.7 | So the first variety we're going to talk about is the black beauty tomato. |
1:00.3 | This is known as the world's darkest tomato or at least it's the darkest tomato that we currently know about So it's a really meaty rich flesh tomato. It's got a ton of anthocyanin right and anthocyanin is what makes this |
1:18.0 | tomato so black that is the reason that blueberries and blackberries have that dark |
1:21.8 | color as well. It's an |
1:23.0 | antioxidant that's found in both of those berries as well as this tomato. |
1:27.5 | So what's interesting about this tomato is that some of these will turn blue |
1:31.8 | black on their skin so they're not a true black right they're not |
1:35.8 | pitch black but they are somewhat bluish blackish and when you cut into them they have this deep red flesh that is absolutely |
1:48.2 | delicious hangs well on vines stores very well and as you store it in room temperature that flavor is going to |
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