[net-gold] INDOOR GARDENING : GARDENING: Gardeners' Gems: Designer Crops That Will Wow The Neighbors
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- Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
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INDOOR GARDENING :
GARDENING:
Gardeners' Gems: Designer Crops That Will Wow The Neighbors
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Gardeners' Gems: Designer Crops That Will Wow The Neighbors
by S Woodruff
May 13, 2014 4:38 PM ET
Correction May 14, 2014
An earlier version of this story stated that the nonprofit Native
Seeds/SEARCH has sold about 30,000 packets of Glass Gem Corn. In fact, it
has sold about 10,000 packets.
NPR
The Salt
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/13/310459918/
gardeners-gems-this-years-hottest-edibles-will-wow-the-neighbors
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To the home gardener who says "been there, done that" to the heirloom
green bean, the French breakfast radish or the Brandywine tomato, take
heart.
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Nurseries and seed companies are competing to bring you the most colorful
and flavorful designer edibles they can come up with. They travel the
world looking for the next in-vogue plant for the home horticulturist.
Every few years they introduce these new chic varieties in their catalogs
and websites.
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Alice Doyle, a founder of, a wholesale nursery for classic and unusual
plants, says some of her customers are like wine connoisseurs who are
always seeking the next best thing.
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"It's the joy of the hunt," she says. "The nuances, the different flavors
and different things you can do with [plants] and enjoying how they grow -
it's all fun."
The Nourishmat, which is inspired by Square Foot Gardening, makes it easy
to grow 15 to 20 pounds of food in a small space with a plastic mat that
serves as a garden planting guide.
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Here are our top picks for the most seductive edibles available for the
home gardener this season:
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Glass Gem Corn: This corn became a rock star in 2012 when the posted on
Facebook went viral.
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Indigo Tomatoes: Yes, you can now grow a blue tomato if you so desire,
thanks to breeders' recent successes with anthocyanin, the compound that
gives blueberries and eggplants their dusky hue.
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Jim Myers, a professor in Oregon State University's horticulture
department, started working on indigo varieties more than a decade ago
with genetic material from wild tomatoes from Chile and the Galapagos
Islands. The indigos have an entirely different gene from the black and
purple tomatoes like the Black Krim or the , which get their pigmentation
from another compound, called pheophytin.
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The indigo tomatoes might even be better for you, thanks to the
anthocyanin, which is also a flavonoid.
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Pineberries: The dramatic color contrast of the pineberry, or pineapple
strawberry, gives these berries an otherworldly look. But this variety,
which has notes of pineapple flavor, has been around for hundreds of
years.
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Oca: This stubby tuber native to Bolivia and Peru is an in the Andean
highlands. And it comes in a dazzling rainbow of colors - from bright pink
to dark red to light yellow.
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The tubers are planted in spring and harvested in fall. "You can grow it
as a really pretty perennial plant, but then you can harvest it at the end
of the season," explains Doyle of Log House Plants, which several
varieties for retail nurseries this year.
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