Squash plants crossed with carnivorous plants that develop certain numbers of specialized blossoms that lure and catch those $%*!#($ squash bugs and SVBs and eat 'em up!!

Crossbreed my favourite vegetables with dandelions.

Imagine tomatoes that you can't kill no matter what you do to them, and they can grow from seed to fully ripe in two days!

Imagine tomatoes that you can't kill no matter what you do to them

Those exist. They're called "tomatoes". ;)

If I had my way, I'd build a giant squash monster! With freeway onramps for leaves, and flowers as black as coal!

Laugh at me, will they?!?

Now, if I was on my medication, I'd instead modify all of those yummy tropical plants to tolerate our Iowa cold. So many things I wish I could grow up here but can't. Guanabana... moringa... cas... passionfruit... mmm....

You can stomp on your tomato plants and they still live?!?

What kind of tomato plants do you have?

Perhaps not stop, but it seems that no matter how badly I abuse them, they survive. I had to give away ~70 plants recently because every last seed that I put in the ground sprouted, and when I thinned into other pots, every last seedling survived, even the ones that barely got any water. I put them in the ground and I water them, they flourish, hardly even noticing the transplant. I don't water them, they complain but refuse to die. Weeds shade them, they stay small but they still don't die. Bugs take a bite here and there, go "bleh", and leave them alone. I swear, they're nigh immortal except to their only true foe: cold.

Now, peppers and eggplants, they're another story...

Back to my heartless squash monsters...

Ha Ha Yes.... The Amazing EarthWorm Plant! Step right up folks and look at the new Earthworm producing, soil inducing, Compost King of em all....This is the plant of a new Generation where as no more will tilling be needed, or weeding, or fertilization, and it shall grow year round, needing just a little enzime spill to feed the worms right on up to the Masive 7 foot Vines, as big as a Baseball Bat, with worms pouring out of the top and back into to ground.

This Plant would not go Dormant in the winter, but rather change color, to a huh-ish Grey, only to change back to a Dark Green in early spring.

Once the new Baby worms form up in the trunk, in Feb.
Feed them with the bottom soil as needed, and you should be go to go for the next year, producing about 100 more worms per plant. This Plant will do away with tilling, as a simple pitch fork will be all youll ever need. Ahh good to be 10 again!!!!

The apple bush. So I could walk outside my door and pick ripe apples at eye level from a bush that doesn't take up much room.

Audrey Jr -- that specializes in neighbors.

Along that line, a carnivorous plant that you can companion plant with broccoli, that will walk around chomping up flea beetles.

Nitrogen-fixing corn. Now _that_ would revolutionize gardening... and agriculture. And I think that it's do-able, the kind of project that Bio-Tech _should_ be working on.

Cold-hardy citrus.

Squash that lures & traps SVB & cuke beetles - count me in.

Slug-proof tomatoes.

Ever-bearing edamame.

Kohlrabi and cabbage that "stacked" producing a large tall stalk with more than one on each.

Tomato plants that have carrots or potatoes as roots!

I love the apple bush idea! I'd put it in a big pot on my patio. I'd like to see veggies that grow in the shade! My back yard is nearly 100% shade and I have only a tiny 4x7 garden, butted right up next to the patio. Only full sun spot in the yard. I'd also like to see tomatoes that DON'T attract the @#$@ hornworms and slug-resistant spinach that grows all summer!

But that squash monster sounds like fun too.

"If I had my way, I'd build a giant squash monster! With freeway onramps for leaves, and flowers as black as coal!"

Heh heh! Are you a Futurama fan, Karenrei?

I have many of the same wishes as Anney. I would love to have more compact melon varieties. I'm currently growing a few that are more compact that most, but something even bushier would be great.

If I had a magic wand, I would cross tomatoes with okra. The fruit would be delicious, succulent tomatoes, and the stems/leaves would take after the heat-loving, drought-tolerant, high-summer okra.

Miniature celery! About 7 inches long, 6 stalks to a bunch!
Save on waste and fit in a crisper drawer!

Are you a Futurama fan, Karenrei?

Is the Space Pope reptilian? :)

This is fun! I'd like a long vined squash flower vacuum that will vacuum up all those pesky weeds, roots and all. No more weeding! It could also vacuum up all of the bad bugs while leaving the good ones.
BTW, there actually is an apple bush. I have three of them. They are mini-dwarfs, growing about four to five feet high. I get about a half bushel of apples off each tree. I got mine from Raintree Nursery but I imagine they can be found elsewhere.

Here is a link that might be useful: Mini-dwarf apples

Lush, soft, evergreen grass that grows only from seed and grows only 4 inches and stops. Seed heads raise only an inch above the top of the leaves and only all at once and only once a year. That way we can get more seed it we want it, or we can do our once annual mowing before the seeds ripen.

kay: There are all sorts of "alternative ground covers" that you can grow a lawn out of if you want to. In Britain, "chamomile lawns" (dwarf, or "roman" chamomile) are a big thing in some gardens. It's soft, and you walk on it and it releases the chamomile scent. For really short, there's plants like scotch and irish moss.

In general, the shorter the groundcover is, the less effective they are at keeping weeds out. Mowing also helps keep weeds down even in normal grass, so if you're not mowing...

No-chill requirement cherry trees. Make that Rainier cherries! Mmm...

Somebody, please email me when you develop these.

Oh, and I suppose this doesn't count as a plant development, but if somebody could please develop an aphid that craps gold. It would make my life much happier.

I'd like onions that grow like garlic. You could just yank a 5-pound bunch, let it cure, then hang it right up in the kitchen. Handy!

Small, seedless personal melons, that are 3-4lbs that don't taste like edible water. Theones at the store are the reason I will grow my own...if I can ever find SEED for the things!!!

Money tree. (does it need explaining?)

Definately more kinds of fruits and vetetables alike that can resist more cold/heat and still produce well.

A bush whose leaves look like those of a young pepper plant, has fruit that looks like a rose, taste like a ripe strawberry, is mildly narcotic, extremely halucinogentic and totally legal. Oh, it can't have calories and should have side effects like making you look like you are 21 forever.

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Eggplant that will grow and produce in cool soil.

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