'Strange' plants in your garden?

[Ranger J]

What out of the ordinary plants do you have in your garden?  It has been my custom for a good number of years to plant some 'different' vegitable in my garden each year.  By this I mean a common vegitable that is some odd color or in many cases some vegitable that I run across in the seed catalogs that I have never seen before.  Most of these end up being just a one-year experiment but it is kind of neat to be able to show people say a blue potato or something like that.  This year I sowed a package of mixed heirloom tomatoes.  These are evidently of several shapes and colors.  These are just producing fruit now so I don't know what I will be getting.  My wife is a spinner and a fingerweaver and for several years we have been growing a few plants of 'colored cotton'.  This year we have brown and green.  These cotton plants produce cotton that is naturally colored instead of the usual white.  While we don't produce  enough to do anything with they are good conversation pieces.

RJ

[jvs]

This year I heard an ad on the radio about "the hotest pepper in the world" being for sale locally.  I picked up 2 plants to try them.

Chinese vegetables can be fun to try.  One year I got some Chinese Stringbean seeds.  These Stringbeans can get 3 to 4 feet long.  While they dont taste exactly like regular Pole or Bush Stringbeans, they are fun to show people when they are hanging on the plants.  Other Chinese vegetables are also available in some seed catalogs.

My borther tried growing a White Tomato called the 'Snowball'.  They grew and we tried them, but having a acidless tomato is basically tasteless to me.