orange cauliflower 5425Julia Altshuler I think a lot of the puple veggis are that way when they are cooked. They do make a nice colour addition to veggie trays and salads. There's a new hybrid carrot...
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This reply is more to Lia at first - The purple is rather cool. I love to garden so these things are neat to me. I think the purple of the cauliflower is much like the Burgandy beans I grow. They are purple but when you cook them they turn green so the colour change acts as an indicator when the veggie is done cooking. I haven't seen the purple potatoes but we found purple potato chips at a health food store that weren't bad. I just got one of the new seed catalogues in and one of the hybrids is a green carrot with orange radiating centre. DH said *ick* but you never know. My experience has been that a lot of hybrids lack flavour. For that reason I tend to grow heirloom strains of veggies where possible but a hybrid or two is always interesting.
I haven't seen orange cauliflower in the stores here but they are lacking anyway. I saw it in the seed catelogue. The problem with cauliflower a from growing perspective, the darn things are cruciforms, which attract the cabbage worm. I try to be as organic as possible but cabbage worms are almost enough to force you into using a pesticide. I decided to not grow cruciforms since they are really cheap at the veggie market and use my space for other veggies I can't get there. That way I can still do it organically without the temptation of pesticides :)
