I just read the list to my husband and he suggested eggplants for the magnets.

Would thyme work for the spikeweed? How about cabbage in the shade? Even if it bolted, it would still look neat and you could pick them small.

All my gardens start out as theme gardens...it's how I know how to design them and what I want to plant :)

Currently, I have a fairy garden, a rose/cottage garden, a bird garden under two plum trees and a kitchen garden/potager.

This year, I'm hoping to add a fragrance garden and a 'farm garden' with grapes and raised beds for potatoes and squash. Corn gets eaten by the deer (as do some of the roses) and the potatoes, squash and pumpkins haven't learned to play nice with others in the kitchen garden. They get too big! LOL

Good luck with your Zombie garden...I've also seen some people on the GW discussing other childrens' gardens, everything from Peter Rabbit to Harry Potter :)

Thanks for the thoughts. I don't think cabbage would make it even in the shade. Its a fall, winter, spring crop here.

Thyme might have the right look for the spikeweed. It certain meets the low and spreading criteria. I'd probably do better with an annual though since I'd have to find someplace to put the stuff come fall when I tear this out to plant the winter's collards and greens.

I got the idea this fall when my 10yo was helping me plant the fall/winter garden and talked about growing cabbage-pults.

There's a plants vs. zombies game? Who wins?

Hopefully the plants win. Your goal is to protect your house from Zombies by planting zombie shooting plants on your front lawn. It's a pretty fun game.

If you're a good player the plants win. The sunflowers provide the power then you shoot the zombies with peashooters, block them with wall-nuts, blow them up with cherry bombs, smash them under squash, etc. Its a lot of fun.

My original post includes a link where you can get a 1 hour free trial if you're interested.

How about brussel sprouts? They are the goofiest looking plant, kinda like a zombie.
I have a rock garden. There are so many rocks in the soil, we throw them all in the paths. After many years I now have lovely river rock paths in my veggie garden.

Come to think of it, its surprising that the game developers didn't include Brussels sprouts as one of the game plants. It could have shot the sprouts at the zombies.

But I'm trying to stay as faithful to the game as is feasible given the soil and the climate.

Haha awesome, I love this idea! And now I totally want the game. (as soon as I finish angry birds!)

For starfruits - how about ground cherries? They're round but somewhat pointy with the skins on...

That sounds like a fun game. You really should get a zombie figure, maybe from the Halloween decorations, and put it in the yard with the plants. People will be so confused.

The ground cherries are a great idea -- low and spreading.

For Starfruits, I like yellow pattypan squash. For spike plants: Rosemary. I assume, though you didn't list them, that you will grow peas for the pea shooters? If it's a strictly summer garden, Cow peas maybe? And what about peanuts for the "Wall nuts". I vote for wax beans for the Magnets...

We love Plants vs. Zombies! What a great way to get your kids interested in the garden!

Susan

Yellow pattypans would be a great choice if I didn't have such troubles with the SVBs.

No peashooters in the summer in this climate. I don't usually use them in the game once I achieve the starfruits anyway.

I hadn't thought of peanuts. That's a definite possibility.

The whole thing was my 10yo's idea really because this fall when we were putting in the cabbages he commented that we were planting cabbage-pults. :-D

I might do a haunted house theme at some point. Bloody Butcher and Fantom du Laos toms (the Fantom toms are supposed to glow when ghosts are around)... those are the only 2 veggies I can think of with scary names. Feel free to suggest any if you can think of some. I could totally use Halloween decorations for it. Lol

Abby

Frankenstein Black tomato.

Dale

Here is a link that might be useful: Frankenstein Black

There are a lot of pumpkins with names like Spookie, Jack-o-Lantern, etc. And there is a white eggplant called "Caspar".

Would Dragon Tongue or Rattlesnake beans be too much of a stretch?

Snake gourds? Dinosaur Kale? Flying Saucer squash?

If the SVBs weren't such an issue, I would have the PERFECT starfruit: Flying Saucer squash.

Its so weird it looks like a game artist developed it!

Alas.

Those dratted SVBs!

Here is a link that might be useful: Flying Saucer Squash

This is great! I've lost my bf to that game many a time. :)

Aubade, what's this angry birds game??

I have taken to collecting brass snails in my garden. Absolutely no idea why. lol. but they amuse me. (Maybe subconsiously, I hope they'll scare away the real ones).