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Extra Beautiful Vegetable and Fruit varieties

 
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Several years ago, I was at a farm or farmers market, and a vendor waved me over with some excitement and a twinkle in his eye.

As best I remember, he cut open a purple potato and inside was a golden sunburst pattern in the center with purple around the edges.

He told me it was an heirloom variety.

For the past couple years, I've begun searching and trying to find it.

Additionally I am interested in growing varieties of vegetables and fruits with surprising, hidden beauty or amazing color contrast, etc.

I would love to see pictures or recommendation!
 
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In that moment, I didn't realize quite how rare or special that potato was.
 
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Inca pea beans

And the spectrums of painted hills sweet corn have been favorites so far.

This summer we will do a better job of capturing the beauty.

Good mother stellar beans look pretty, though I have not yet grown any.
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Forgot these pictures
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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 Rose apple
- Chioggia beet
- Amarosa potatoes, fingerlings with red skin and pink interior
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I grew these pretty cauliflower and have now been cutting them for fresh eating.
Graffiti was the name I think
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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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