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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Cool and Warm Season Varietal Suggestions

Suggestions for The Cool Season:

Artichokes (a perennial)
Beets
Burpee’s Golden, Chioggia, Detroit Dark Red, Detroit White,
Broccoli
Nutribud, Waltham. Calabrese, DeCicco 
Brussel Sprouts
Long Island (sometimes "Improved" is added) 
Cabbage (including Oriental cabbage-like greens)
Point One, Early Jersey Wakefield, Copenhagen Market,
Carrots
Dragon, St. Valery, Paris Market, Scarlet Nantes,
Cauliflower – there are purple ones too!
Early Snowball
Chard
Argentata, Five Color Silverbeet,
Fava Beans
Windsor; Aprovecho (sometimes appended with “Select”)
Florence Fennel (bulbing)
Romy, Zefa Fino.
Garlic (this is a long season crop, plant in Fall harvest next Summer)
Kale
Dinosaur (also called 'Lacinata'), Redbor,
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Carina, King Richard
Lettuce
more varieties than you can shake a stick at – or grow a mix!
Onions (also a long season growing; find “short-day” varieties like Italian Torpedo)
Other leafy salad things
Parsley
Peas
Tall Telephone Pole, Dwarf Gray Sugar,
Potatoes
All-Blue, Caribe, Yukon Gold,
Radishes
French Breakfast, Fluo, Easter Egg, Purple Plum, Watermelon
Shallots
Spinach
Bloomsdales’ Long Standing, America
Turnips
DeMilan, Purple Top White Globe

Include all perennial herbs and perennial flowers. In addition, try some fun annuals like calendulas, larkspur, poppies (bread, California or Iceland types), sweet peas, and venidium. Make room for cilantro! Lots of cilantro!!

Suggestions for The Warm Season:

Basil
Lettuce Leaf, Genovese,
Beans - drying
Black Turtle, Calypso, Cherokee Trail of Tears, Hidatsa, Hutterite, Cannelini,
Beans – lima
Christmas,
Beans- snap
Roc d’Or, Romano, Royal Burgundy, Kentucky Wonder, Blue Lake
Sweet Corn
Golden Bantam, Country Gentleman,
Popcorn
Strawberry
Cucumbers
Mideast Prolific, Japanese, Armenian,
Eggplant
Asian Bride, Rosa Bianca, Dusky
Melons
Charantais, Jenny Lind,
Okra
Peppers (Sweet)
Ancho, Corno di Toro, Healthy, Marconi,
Peppers (Hot)
Aji Crystal, Fish (mildly hot), Early Jalapeno,
Pumpkins
Cornfield, Lumina,
Squash (Summer)
Black Beauty, Yellow Crookneck
Squash (Winter)
Acorn, Marina de Chioggia, Potimarron, Queensland Blue, Kaboucha,
Tomatoes
Brandywine, San Marzano, Stupice, Sweet 100’s, Rutgers and thousands others!
Tomatillo
Green Husk, Purple di Milpa,


Plant from seed or buy transplants at a nursery of fun warm-season annual flowers like marigolds, cleome (watch the stickers!), cosmos, sunflowers and zinnias. These warm season flowers make cheerful bouquets. You can also grow everlasting flowers like statice and gomphrena. The widest selection of flowers and vegetables is available to those who start their own from seed, especially if one orders from the internet.   

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