Purple eggplant, purple kale, red okra, orange carrot, black radish, red corn, and more….these are not photoshop products, they are real vegetable and are ” bright candidates” that can be grown for your garden more colourful. A vegetable garden need not be boring, let’s spend your time growing them to adorn your lovely garden, they can be delicious.
1- Eggplant
The most common types of eggplants feature black or purple fruits, but if you look around, you can find more exotic cultivars bearing red, green, white or orange fruits. To top it all, they produce beautiful purple blooms that add contrast to the colours of the adjoining fruits and some extra spark to your dull garden bed.
2- Kale
Kale has delicate green leaves and compact growth habit, is a great plant to end the vegetable season, especially when you select the purple-flushed or ruffled purple varieties. It’s believed that ornamental kale is purely decorative and has no health value whatsoever. However, it is edible but bitter in taste, so you are best off growing it alongside the traditional green variety.
3- Okra (Lady’s Finger)
Even if okra isn’t quite your thing, you can always use it to decorate your garden. The ruby-red ones such as ‘Red Burgundy’ develop stunning yellow hibiscus-like flowers and torpedo-shaped fruits.
4- Beet
Beet varieties, with their rich burgundy hue, paint a pretty picture. Candy-pink types and red varieties with golden roots are available too, though they come in a milder flavour. One particularly popular type is ‘Bull’s Blood’ that flaunts bold and fiery red foliage.
5- Carrot
Bugs Bunny is one of the types of carrots and it has an orange colour. This starchy, crispy vegetable comes imbued in purple, yellow, red or white colours. You can add these jewel-like shades in your garden to enjoy them in your salad or carrot cake later. Stunning varieties include ‘White Satin’ and ‘Red Samurai.’
6- Pepper
Count on peppers and chillies to liven up and spice up your garden and plate. Whether fiery hot or mildly sweet, red, orange, yellow or purple peppers are nutritious, flavorful and a staple of party food recipes.
7- Tomato
A sprig of juicy red tomatoes embarks on the cheer and warmth of the summer season. Heirloom varieties are more appealing in the sense that they offer a rainbow of exotic colours, including the pink ‘Brandywine,’ orange ‘Tangella,’ lavender ‘Cherokee Purple’ and yellow ‘Lemon Boy.’ Yellow varieties have a unique taste and a lower acid level that makes it perfect for people with frequent tummy upsets. On the other hand, the purple ones come with a greater level of antioxidants.
8- Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi is typically grown for its edible and nutritious bulb-like stems. White and purple varieties kohlrabi are most common, however, internally both of them are white. Few people know about ‘kohlibri,’ a variety favoured for its deep purple veneer and velvety blue-green foliage.
9- Cabbage
Cabbage doesn’t have to be green always. Transform your boring, bland garden bed by adding the gorgeous tones of flowering cabbage. While ornamental cabbage is edible, it has a slightly bitter taste unlike common ones and is mostly suitable for garnishing.
10- Sweet Potatoes
If you believed that sweet potatoes came in just a single rose-red colour with pale orange flesh underneath, you are wrong. Common colours include red, blue, tan, orange or red; the flesh may range from white to orange and anywhere in between. And the best part is that all are equally nutritious and scrumptious.
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