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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Weird Veggies to Try Growing This Year

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a weird year, so why not mix it up by growing some WEIRD vegetables?

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0:00.0

Hey there everyone welcome back. Let's get funky in today's episode and talk

0:17.4

about some weird stuff that you could grow in your garden. Now most of us can't grow all of these. We have different climate

0:24.7

restrictions, but I figured I would run through a few and just talk about it. So the first one is

0:30.0

a really massive radish. It's a watermelon radish. My friend Nicky Jabourg A really

0:35.0

well, up in her climate, and a really radish.

0:37.0

They seem to do really well up in her climate in Nova Scotia,

0:41.0

but you can still grow them.

0:42.6

You're going to want to pull them up during the cooler months, of course,

0:45.2

grate them into a winter salad, do whatever you want there.

0:48.8

But they are just really, really big.

0:51.9

You want to grow it in late summer or autumn because it needs some time to get

0:55.8

large without bolting. So you want to push it into a colder season rather than push it into a warmer

1:02.4

summer and planted in the spring.

1:04.0

So watermelon radish are a fantastic ones.

1:07.5

Now there's also a white strawberry like an alpine strawberry

1:12.2

or sometimes called a pine berry.

1:14.3

They are just really a wild strawberry.

1:17.1

They just look white.

1:19.1

They almost look like they're albino.

1:20.6

It's a very interesting look.

1:22.1

Birds don't seem to go for them as much as they would a giant red one, and they don't have as much of a

1:28.9

pungent, super sweet strawberry flavor. They're a bit more mild, a bit more mellowed out and

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