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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

5 Uncommon Veggies To Try This Year

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you know me, you know I'm a fan of "weird" veggies - whether that be color, shape, or even taste! Here are five of my absolute favorites for you to try in 2018.

Keep Growing,

Kevin

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about weird veggies or

0:06.2

uncommon veggies, not really weird ones. So this is a question that comes from Bruce and he wants

0:11.0

to know just some of the less common vegetables that you can grow in your garden and this is actually my specialty because I really like growing things that are odd

0:19.1

whether that's odd looking odd coloring, odd tasting, I like to grow a lot of different unique things that make

0:27.4

a statement I guess you could say.

0:29.1

So sometimes I get a little bored growing maybe a basic purple eggplant and I want to grow a white one or a red one or an orange one and that's just interesting to me that's what keeps me interested in gardening and so I figured I would I would cover just a couple unique vegetables that you can grow.

0:44.0

Now before we do that we'll talk about Garden Maker Naturals.

0:47.0

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0:53.2

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0:55.1

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0:57.4

And I personally use some of their signature blends.

1:00.2

The all-purpose is one of my favorites,

1:02.1

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1:04.0

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1:09.6

and that's designed to take standard garden soil and compost and turn it into a supersoil that's going to produce for you in this season and many seasons to come.

1:18.5

Okay, let's get into a few of these weird veggies that you can grow.

1:22.2

One of my absolute favorites, to be honest with you,

1:24.7

is the Chinese five color pepper.

1:26.9

It's probably one of the most beautiful plants

1:28.5

I've ever grown in my entire life.

1:30.6

It is a hot pepper.

1:31.8

It's exceptionally hot. It grows all five different colors of

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