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Gothic Radishes, Turnips, and Potatoes:

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I am getting more and more excited as I find all these awesome foods that can be grown, why has no one complied list of these before?  I have been around the Gothic community for over 10 years now, and other than a few black flowers, I never knew just how much we had available to us... I not sure anyone did or does.  This is just exciting!   Today I want to share with you some of the Gothic Radishes, Turnips, and Potatoes I have found: Black Spanish Radishes Purple Plum Radishes French Breakfast Radishes White Globe Turnips Purple Turnips ( solid purple, not the purple top turnip s) Kohlrabi - German Turnips Purple Wonder Potatoes Mountain Rose Potatoes Okinawan Sweet Potatoes ~ Morria Please Note:   Many of these are rare and/or harder to get ones hands on, but still do-able.  Most are heirloom  varieties .  Patience  and a good determination to hunt for the plants is needed.    Enjoy!  I know I am!  Mos...

Gothic Beans:

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As I have begun working on research for my future book: Gothic Homesteading , and if nothing else for my own Gothic homestead . Thus,   I thought I would share with everyone a short list of Gothic Beans I have discovered.  Enjoy! Royal Purple Beans Black Valentine Beans Orca Beans Anasazi Beans Hopi Black Beans Hopi Black Pinto Beans Hopi Gray Lima Beans Christmas Lima Beans Tarahumara Purple Star Beans Four Corner Runner Beans Scarlet Runner Beans Black Tepary Beans San Pablo Tepary Beans Yoeme Purple String Beans Black Beluga Lentils ~ Morria Please Note: Some of these beans, especially the Native American varieties are rare and hard to get ones hands on quickly. Most if not all are heirloom beans.