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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 06:59:50 am

I made this salad entirely with ingredients from my garden. Besides lettuce, tomatoes, onionn and basil I added a Freak of Nature Garden newbie, a white carrot.

I bought the seeds from Territorial Seed Co. but didn't have much luck with them thanks to Miss Kitty and her feline friends.

White satin is the name of this variety. It certainly is striking: completely white with a green top. However, it was less sweet than a typical orange carrot. I prefer the purple carrots I grew last year.

This is an Italian Red Torpedo onion I grew from Ed Hume seeds. It's another newbie in the Freak of Nature Garden.

The onion is very strong and white inside. I really like it. It slices very thin, great for a salad. Despite its red exterior I'd liken it more to a strong white onion than a red/purple salad onion.
Categories: Tomatoes, Herbs, Vegetables 1 comment

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sunnybee @ 12:13 - Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Email
Love all your pics and comments! Since my garden did so poorly this summer, I'm living vicariously thru yours.................good work!

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