This year is is purple sicilian cauliflower, tastes great and easier to grow than the white.

Early purple sprouting brocolli

Striped tomatoes - tigerella, black zebra, green zebra and yellow tomatoes that ripen in our cool temperate climate in Tasmania.

I'm growing purple green beans,which turn green when you cook them. Not that exotic but my kids think they are fun. But, the green, green beans are ready now and the purple ones are just now blooming so I need to remember that next year. I also have lots of volunteer squash plants from my compost. One is like the giant been stalk. It is taking over everything no matter how much I cut it back and redirect it. But, I just HAVE to let it grow to see what its gonna be!

This year it's purple haze carrots, choggia red and white ringed beets, sicilian kale, 6 types of basil, giant russian sunflowers, and an enormous mutant rhubarb thats taking over half my garden.
Quite a funky bunch in the garden this year...

My funky veggies in my container garden are Purple Dragon carrots and Sweet Chocolate peppers, along with some unnamed dark, late-bearing strawberries. I also have a handful of Scarlet Keeper carrots to try and some krinkly blue kale from seed I saved from a wild-growing plant. Its my first time having a pepper plant actually live and produce - the secret in my area turns out to be growing them in an upside down hanging planter (a Topsy-turvy in my case, but I don't recommend them). Next year I want to try Manyel tomatoes.

Cooking tip for Purple Dragon carrots which are deep purple on the outside but orange or yellow on the inside, at least for when you boil or use them in soups: if you keep the skin on, the orange will turn purple. If you peel them they'll look like normal carrots and lose some of the extra vitamins that are in the purple skin.

This year I'm growing yellow, orange, purple and green striped tomatoes as well as traditional red ones. I'm blogging about all of it and will be posting copious amounts of pictures as the fruits come in, if you want to see them.

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Everything that managed to stay alive this spring is funky for me!! We had an incredible spring of way too much rain and not enough sunshine. My tomatoes look great but my attempts at okra are mocking me as I write this. I had some lemon balm that attempted to establish itself someplace I didn't want it; I dug it up and put it in a container on the deck. Now it sits there sniffling, like a toddler in time out, refusing to perk up. I had transplanted a raspberry cane to a sunnier site this spring; it was loving the rain but when my husband with the weed eater decided it was an errant blackberry cane, well I'll leave it to everyone's imagination what has happened. Every year I swear I'll quit gardening and support local farmers and then each spring I find myself out there doing it again.