6 Veggies You Can Grow But NEVER Buy At The Grocery Store

Here are 6 edible plants you can grow in your garden that you could never grab at a grocery store. The reason is either they are not cost-effective to grow or the shelf life is horrible. When it comes to unique vegetables to grow in your garden these are definitely it.

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Have six plants you should add to your shopping list for seeds and the reason for this is cuz this is six really cool edible fruits or vegetables you can grow in your garden but you will never ever find in a grocery store so some of these will be easier than others depending on

What zone you’re in and I always encourage you to look at your days to harvest very simple terms for GDs or gdu accumulation I’ll put the definitions for that somewhere up on the screen but ultimately speaking you want to look at those where I am I have 109 days in the

Event that I have a very warm summer I could push 11520 because those that days to harvest is arbitrary the the real truth is in the gdus I can do a video on that I’ve done videos on that in the past if you want to learn more about the plan

Science behind that concept however here are my six crops you can grow in ground but never could purchase at a grocery store so number one is called fat baby AOA a coocha it is a really bizarr looking fruit it is kind of the flavor of a pepper crossed with a cucumber

Ultimately speaking it tastes fresh and it is unique children tend to love it I don’t think you could you know make massive amounts of preservers off this but I do think it would be unique in the sense that you could serve it up in a dish and people would be like wow this

Is so cool one that would fall under that for someone who has lower number of growing days would actually be the cuck melon so very similar to that of the fat baby choa but a little bit different little bit less exotic they’ve been around for a little while however definitely not

Purchasable in the grocery store number two is colored KES and this expands Beyond kale it can actually get into different lettuce and even colored greens for example and essentially it could be the entire Leaf is a different color the demem is a different color and or Texture so kale in particular comes

In a wide range of textures and looks and feels so ultimately speaking this is something that is unique and different that if you were to serve it up at a seever garden party or you were to pull out of the freezer and use in a pasta for example people would say oh wow

That’s unique where’d you get it and the only answer to that would be my garden because they would not sell these in the grocery store next up is edible flowers now this one you need to be careful with some are floral tasting and others taste similar to that of a lettuce and they

Simply are adding colors so for example pansies is a very beautiful looking flower that is edible and I don’t feel to be Floral in flavor another would would be uh cucumbers or any sort of summer or winter squash flour particularly the male flowers again not floral tasting but more of just a

Vegetative greens taste there are are things out there that are most definitely Floral in flavor and that could include some things such as Adalia or aunia which yes those are edible but they taste very floral so do keep that in mind when choosing edible flowers but edible flowers is one that you know

Ultimately does change a salad in the summer um they can be Frozen and utilized in pastas or on pizzas in the winter and it gives a little bit of extra color uh different texture and that sort of thing that will wow the crowd nsts is another one that I find

Not floral just very specific uh taste or very specific look and feel texture type thing on the tongue okay next up is Tomos and gooseberries the reason these are in the same category is cuz they’re actually in the same family the flavor profiles are very different for one

Another but these ones are definitely ones you cannot buy in the grocery store unless it’s a very bougie very specific grocery store setting and they have a wide different number of uses most of most of which is fresh eats except for gooseberries which can Bean jams uh commonly use this however unfortunately

With a gooseberry you obviously have to be in the zone for gooseberries now the Zone in which Gooseberry survive is quite Broad and quite large so I would think for the most part you would fall under that but that is something to keep in mind tomatillos you could start

Indoors um and plant outside same as a tomato so that one there there’s no I guess barriers to entry based on your climate but those are definitely two you cannot buy in the grocery store I personally do not like Tomo like the flavor that’s just not my thing

Gooseberries however I do enjoy next up is Royal Garden watermelon so there this is not limited to just the Royal Garden watermelon there are so many different forms of watermelon cantaloupe or just any sort of fruity melon flavor out there that are not your classic grocery

Store varieties so one of which we see more often is sundue that was not commercially available in the grocery store until recently in my in my mind um or in Canada I guess where I am but that is definitely something you could grow that is unique and different that would

Wow the crowd if you were to do anything with it because they’re pretty uh bizarre the watermelon or the melon world is limiting to The Climate your in they do need a very high number of gdus or gdd in their makeup for their year and oftentimes you may need to consider

Growing in a greenhouse or under coverage particularly to help get those heat units up in the summer uh season if you are in a lower zone so do keep that in mind number six is colored Roots now this one is so wide and prolific you have colored carrots all different types

Of colored carrots you have different colored beets you you also even have different colored potatoes so you can get purple potatoes for example now the colors have generally longer number of days to grow so do keep that in mind however these most definitely are not purchased in the grocery store and are

Unique and of course because we’re talking carrots beets and potatoes they can be stored in the same way you would store any sort of carrot beets and potatoes the one thing I will say is anything that is colored if you choose to go the route of not pickling and go

The route of canning and specific pressure canning you may have some color loss if you do not add zinc to the preservation process but if we’re talking fresh eats or Frozen then you don’t actually have to worry about this but definitely colored Roots very unique definitely cool if you want to spice up

A dish make things look a little bit different and stable which I mean is always a win-win and most climats I think the majority of climats that watch this channel will be able to grow these with absolute ease so there are my six crops you can grow but this grocery

Store most definitely will not have in stock if you have any unique crops that you believe are not purchasable in a grocery store but you could grow in your garden comment them down below because people love different ideas and I will talk to you guys next time bye