Children and vegetables may not be a match made in heaven, but kids will love to vegetable garden if they grow these vegetables. We keep hearing that kids spend too much time indoors watching entertainment on a screen and eating junk food. The rate of overweight children and teens has nearly tripled in 20 years, increasing from 6% in from 1976 to 1980 to 16% from 1999 to 2000.*
Ease your kids into loving both vegetables and gardening by surprising them with the unexpected. Purple carrots and a tomato that masquerades as a pepper. Why not? And there's lots more where that came from.
*According to the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, as reported by the Gallup Organization
Vegetable photos are courtesy of W. Atlee Burpee & Co. and Territorial Seed Company
- Red, White and BluePotatoes: All Blue
- A Cauliflower That Doesn't Need a Cheese SauceCauliflower 'Chedder'
- An Edible BowlTomato: Yellow Magic
- This Ornamental Corn is Also DeliciousCorn: Ruby Queen
- Some Things Aren't As They SeemBeet: Chioggia
- You Can Plant a RainbowCarrot: Kaleidoscope
- Purple is the New GreenPurple Bean 'Royal Burgundy'
- Beautiful as Italian MarbleBean: Italian Rose
- Truly Sun Dried TomatoesTomato 'Principe Borghese'
- Dinosaur CucumbersCucumber 'Armenian'
- A Garden FiestaPurple Tomatillo
- Take the Name LiterallyEgyptian Walking Onion
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