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Post by Wheelgarden on Sept 9, 2019 18:14:22 GMT -5
I experiment with different varieties of different vegetables to an extent --- not nearly as much as many folks, but I've narrowed down a few standbys over the years. The things that generally perform well year after year in my soil and clime...like:
Big Beef and Rutgers tomato.
Emerald okra.
Sugar Snap and Cascadia snap peas.
Astro arugula.
Red Russian kale
Serrano and Jalapeno peppers.
I'm curious...what's yours in your place?
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Post by Mumsey on Sept 9, 2019 19:53:58 GMT -5
Great thread Wheelgarden! Oxheart tomatoes Giant Fordhook chard (colored ones don't do so well here) Kentucky Wonder pole beans (saved seed for years) German Hardneck garlic Dutch Late Flathead cabbage Curly Kale Those are the things I will never leave behind! |
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Post by desertwoman on Sept 9, 2019 20:44:05 GMT -5
These are my most reliable and always planted in my garden...no matter what!
Red Russian kale
Cherokee Purple tomato
Sun gold tomato
Sugar pie pumpkin
Hardneck garlic
Black seeded Simpson lettuce
Red Sails lettuce
NM chiles (Big Jim and Sandia)
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Post by octave1 on Sept 9, 2019 22:16:30 GMT -5
Early Girl tomatoes
Elite zucchini
Derby green beans
Touchon carrots
Black Beauty eggplants
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Post by binnylou on Sept 9, 2019 23:11:10 GMT -5
Juliet tomatoes
Yukon Gold potato
Detroit beets
Dwarf Blue Curled kale
Honeycomb honeydew melon
Sugar pie pumpkins
Red Marconi peppers..saved seed
Diva cucumbers
Early White Vienna kohlrabi
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Uproar rose zinnia
Victoria blue salvia..saved seeds
First Lady marigold..it’s yellow, not orange or gold
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Post by gianna on Sept 10, 2019 0:06:33 GMT -5
Tomato - Early Girl
Bush beans - Romano
Chili pepper - Numex Joe E. Parker
Beet - Detroit Dark Red
Potato - Yukon Gold
Lettuce - Sierra
Kale - Dino/Lacinato/Black
English pea- Top Pod
Snap pea - Super Sugar Snap
The first 3, every year. The others, when it hits my fancy.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 10, 2019 13:26:53 GMT -5
I have way too many peppers that I have to plant! It's gotten to the point that I have little space for new ones to try - only one this year, which did not do well.
Superchili (absolute earliest every year)
Thai - various types
Superthai - a hybrid that dropped from the
market, and I'm still trying to stabilize
some seeds
Jalafuego - favorite jalapeño
Chocolate and Red Savina habaneros
Aji Dulce - almost no heat habanero
Hanoi Market
Big Jim - favorite Numex type, to roast
Jyoti
Tomatoes, OTOH, I'm still searching for something heat resistant! And then there's the disease problem, from horrible wetness.
Sunsugar - most heat resistant of everything I
grew this year, though it still slowed.
Big Beef and Amish Gold Slicer - I plant
these, even though they are affected by wet
and heat. Always at the top in taste tests.
Pretty in Pink - probably plant this again,
because it came back from the heat faster
than any large variety.
Butternuts (only ones I can grow) - Polaris stores longer than any I have grown, and produces great numbers!
Kohlrabi - Kolibri
Eggplants:
Ichiban - First ones every year, though not as
heat resistant as others.
Neon - one of the most productive, and heat
resistant varieties - a hybrid that is being
dropped from the market - available nowhere!
Saving seeds, but don't know if it will
stabilize.
Hari - most heat proof variety I have ever
grown, and incredibly productive.
Greens - something else I have too many of!
Senposai
Komatsuna - generic for fall, and summer fest
for spring, as it grows into August!
Mizuna
Bok Choy - Win Win[/i] slowest bolting variety
Tatsoi - most cold resistant
Lettuce - leaf variety, that I saved the seeds
from, since it grew well into summer, and
grew and tasted great!
Swiss Chard and Perpetual Spinach
Okra - Emerald, and now Little Lucy
Beans - Blauhilde, which is a purple podded
variety, that is the earliest every year.
Snap Peas - Super Sugar Snap
Garlic - Estonian Red, and Metechi
Herbs - most that I have are perennials, but a few I plant from seed:
Dill - Dukat, which seems to bolt slower
Parsley - Italian Flatleaf
Epazote - Oaxacan Red
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Post by Mumsey on Sept 11, 2019 4:28:30 GMT -5
Jalafuego - favorite jalapeño Is this a large jalapeño? Somehow we ended up with smallish ones this year, can't say what variety they are. |
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