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Goth vegetable garden ideas

Anyone have suggestions for dark/scary looking vegetables/flowers I can direct sow now? I’m in NY Zone 7.

I already have dark foliage peppers, black tomatoes, purple basil, purple bush beans, and some dark flowers (scabiosa, snapdragons, dahlias, nasturtiums, purple alyssum, gomphrena) 🎃

Also adding in some skeletons and lights. Having too much fun already. Thanks in advance!

by Ajiconfusion

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  1. Cardchucker

    There are some cool looking cucumber varieties like Sikkim. Dragon egg could be good too, planted near some scary creatures.

    Maybe some purple asparagus? That’s more of a long term project though.

  2. MisterProfGuy

    Not a seed sown vegetable, but you should put a little citrus trifoliata “Flying Dragon” near your goth garden, because it just looks like delicate pain.

  6. Mr__Mxyzptlk

    There are blue indigo tomatoes that look dark purple/black.

  7. indiscernable1

    Too much sunlight is necessary for gardening to be goth.

  8. Scoginsbitch

    How about blood red? Like scarlet runner beans? Beautiful red flowers.

    Or you could do purple beans.

  9. AngMBishop

    Purple bell peppers are my fave to grow but their leaves dont get super dark

  10. rockasilly7

    I can’t help much but I want pictures when it’s all grown in. I’ve been seeing black hollyhock! Eggplant comes in dark shades… black carrots and radishes but the goth part is underground 😅 sweet potato comes with purple foliage sometimes too.

  11. North-Star2443

    Purple queen french beans, black cherry tomatoes, black velvet nasturtium, purple sprouting broccoli, purple basil, red leaf lettuce, snapdragons (the seedpods look like skulls), bleeding hearts flowers, night sky petunias, sea holly, snake head fritillary and for fun beladonna (not remotely edible but very much at home in a Goth garden).

  12. gholmom500

    This nearly lines up with our Purple Garden 2025.

    A lot of the darkest varieties are called purple.
    Dragon carrots
    (Also Kyoto Red carrots look like daggers)
    Early purple broccoli
    Purple of Sicily cauli
    Purple podded pole bean (quick starters)
    Purple magic Pok Choi (note, mine didn’t germinate well)
    Lolla Rossa is a red-pink lettuce
    Purple calabash tomatoes
    We have at least 2 types of purple peas.

  14. huehuehuehuehuuuu

    Get something blood red and something bone white. For the contrast.

  15. Distinct_Abroad_4315

    Purple bell peppers, Cherokee purple tomatoes

  16. noonvale12

    I think there’s some dark sunflower varieties. There’s also black pumpkins

  17. Itswithans

    Cherokee purple tomato, purple basil, purple pole beans, red cabbage, red romaine!

  22. SocialDuchess

    Queen of the Night tomato, blackish purple with orange and red. Blue Indigo tomato, deep blue.
    Black Velvet Nasturtium, beautiful flowers for pollinators.
    Pumpkin Spice Jalapeño, orange.

  24. Robertsipad

    /r/PlantGoths

    Purple or black sunflower

    Late summer you could sow purple bin choy

  25. Double_Estimate4472

    Someone posted a glowing flower on the gardening subreddit, I saw a few days ago.

  27. California__girl

    In case you don’t know, most purple veggies will revert to green when cooked, even just for a moment. There are a handful of specific varieties, but it’s unique, so they’ll tout it if they stay purple.

  29. Meowjo_Jojo

    I planted crimson okra, red malabar spinach, and “love lies bleeding” amaranth. Give them a Google. They’re all pretty stellar blood red accents.

  33. Serplantprotector

    Kohl Rabi! It’s a funny looking vegetable and it comes in green or purple. Mixing both colours can make for a visually fun patch.

    Dinosaur kale/Tuskan kale/Cavolo Nero is a visually interesting and dark kale. There’s a few different varieties of kale that are darker in colour plus smaller ones for ground cover that are purple.

    I also like red pak choi, red cabbage, red chard (bright stems but dark leaves for a nice colour pop!), leeks (they look kinda dramatic), cucumbers (some are spikey) and I have physallis/cape gooseberry.

    If you’d like flowers, there are some very red nasturtiums and some other colour varieties can feel very gothic. Bees love borage, so I always recommend it.

    Next year, I want to focus more on aesthetics, too!

  34. SpermKiller

    Some perilla varieties are all purple, others are purple under the leaves (surprise scare!). Anyway they’re gorgeous.

  37. BunnyButtAcres

    Red Roselle and maybe Maypop (check out the flowers, not the plant)

    edit Alabama Red Okra, Burgundy Okra

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