Kitchen Garden Forum

So one of the joys of gardening in a community plot open to the public is that you get to share the joys of dirt and sometimes even your harvest. Unfortunately, not all of the harvest sharing is by choice/with permission. Nobody stole my Cherokee Purple tomatoes last year, I think because they didn't look ripe. I hope to buy more weird looking tomatoes for this year- yellow maybe?
I had a bumper crop of purple bush beans, and I think I'll grow them again because they were so beautiful. No one took my cranberry/borlotti beans which was a shame since I think they are gorgeous but didn't like their flavor.
I've been toying with planting a sweet and prolific (and squash borer resistant, while I'm dreaming) melon or squash. It needs to look weird, though, as not one single pumpkin survived until harvest time last year in the entire garden.
Do people have any ideas of weird looking but tasty veg? I have access to Seeds of Italy products, so if they carry it all the better.

alia

Turk's Turban Squash?

Purple Carrots.

Round Courgettes and round Cucumbers.

Some from Seeds of Italy

Yellow climbing beans

Red chicory

Wrinkled zucchini

Warty squash

Root crops, there is something they have to break into your shed fo, to find your fork to dig them up ! ! ! (Just a tad bitter)! Cheers, Tony.

I understand how much of a pain this must be, and how frustrating...but I kind of like the fact that you´re using your imagination to come up with all these weird vegetables which no-one will steal! You might even benefit from this tasting something you never thought you´d try!

Of course if you had something mildly poisionous, (discomforting rather than fatal), that looked like edible stuff and someone stole and ate it, then it would be so upsetting thinking of how long those poor innocent thieves would be "in the john".

how about purple sprouts?

Apparently, there is also a new yellow strawberry, not sure if it's available yet, but birds are certainly deterred from pilferring them, so the general public should be too??

good luck!

I havent heard about the yellow strawberries, I read this article about Pineberries the other day, though I know if I saw those growing even I would have to try one! They look so damn tasty!

I'm growing the yellow strawberry this year - reason
being I thought it would be tasty so would't rely on
this as a deterrent - I might be tempted to visit if
mine fail!

Westi

How about Rat's Tail Radish. - http://kitchengardeners.org/rat-tailed-radish

I grow some every year in the greenhouse and also climbing up trellis outside.