Warm Season Veggies for SoCal

Fried Green Tomatoes anyone? Tomatoes
are the star of most summer gardens
and the varieties to choose from!  

Basil

Lettuce Leaf, Genovese,

Beans - drying

Black Turtle, Cannellini

Beans – Lima

Christmas

Beans- snap

Roc d’Or, Romano, Royal Burgundy

Sweet Corn

Golden Bantam, Country Gentleman

Popcorn

Strawberry

Cucumbers

Lemon, Mideast Prolific, Armenian

Eggplant

Diamond, Rosa Bianca

Melons

Okra

Clemson's Spineless, Red Burgandy

Peppers (Sweet)

Banana, Corno di Toro,

Peppers (Hot)

Ancho, Jalapeňo,

Pumpkins

Sugar Pie,

Squash (Summer)

Black Beauty, Lebanese White, Yellow Crookneck,

Squash (Winter)

Acorn, Chiriman, Queensland Blue,

Tomatoes

Brandywine, Golden Jubilee, Italian Gold, Orange Sungold, Northern Delight, Stupice, Sweet 100’s, Garden Peach, Persimmon and about a thousand others!

Tomatillo

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 and order by mail from the catalogs above and many, many others.