The Weirdest Foods You Can Grow In Your Garden

What really fires our children’s imagination is the extraordinary. Whether this week’s fixation is monsters, aliens, magical powers, superheroes or mythical lands, it’s always the strange and the super that inspires them.

If you’re struggling to get them excited about their vegetables, then use this knowledge to your advantage: here are some right truly magical, and sometimes monstrous, fruits and veggies that you can easily grow in your back garden.

The process of growing produce in itself can inspire a sense of wonder in children. It also helps to get them more involved in the food they eat: tomatoes grown from seeds are inherently more interesting than those in neat plastic packs at the supermarket.

Many of us have already turned to home-grown fruits and vegetables as a way to save money and bring the food our children eat literally closer to home. The potential savings are clear. Consumer watchdog Which has recently done the sums for us:

• One cucumber plant will save us £18
• One tomato plant will save us £6.69
• One courgette plant will save us £11.40
• One pack of baby carrot seeds will save us £38.52
• And sow on!

Watching things grow is wonderful, but watching these strange foods grow is truly awesome. They’ll win over the most strident food dodger and turn those mundane side dishes into potent magical forces.

Who could not be fascinated by a mushroom that looks like a lion’s mane? Or intrigued by a black tomato? Or excited when corn explodes into a colourful dance when it is heated in the microwave? These eight strange monstrous, magical and exotic fruits and vegetables all share one thing in common: they are as easy to grow in your back garden as they are delightful to look at and eat.

So get your gardening gloves on because it’s time to sow the seeds of lifelong interest in healthy eating for your children.

Let’s get planting!

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