Let your kids plant Green Zebras, or Dragon’s Tongues, or Painted Ponies
If you ’re planning on getting some Thomas Kyd into the garden this season , there are some vegetable varieties out there with some gravely fun name . potpourri that have silly or even just familiar names are more exciting for kids to engraft and can be great conversation fledgling , too .
“ Why do you think they chose this name for this melon vine ? ”
“ What would you have named it ? ”
“ If you created a variety , what vegetable would it be and what name would it have ? ”
All of the silly vegetable below just happen to be heirloom variety — which , of class , mean that when you and your kids harvest the crop , you may make unnecessary your own seeds for next class . Collecting and storing seed is the next natural progression from growing their own vegetable plants . Now you and your tyke can have your own “ seminal fluid bank ” and give it a silly name .
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