Beautiful vegetables are what got me into gardening so this is a precious topic for me!
A few favourites are:
- Magenta spreen; an edible green with sparkly/glittery hot pink new growth
- Radishes with pink or purple insides, such as watermelon radish or Pusa jumani
- Rosa di Veneto radicchio, with blush pink butter leaves
- Hidden Roseapple - Chioggia beet
- Amarosa potatoes, fingerlings with red skin and pink interior
This is my second year growing "navajo green pumpkin," a maxima squash. The plants struggled this year and by the frost date I had just a single squash of about 2 lbs. It was not fully mature, I could still puncture skin with my fingernail. I picked it anyway to use like summer squash. It was the most delicious summer squash ever, sweet and flavorful.
The inside, instead of being white like most immature squash, was a deep saffron gold through and through. A beautiful contrast to the shiny green skin.
Here is a photo of the broiled squash slices.
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