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.