Crop/variety choices for the YRCG -
BUSH BEANS
Dragon tongue wax 60 days juicy and sweet even when large. Heavy producer.
Bush bean mix: all with great eating quality.
POLE BEANS
Rattlesnake 70 days best of all for flavor and 100-degree heat didn’t stop them from producing lots of beans.
Romano 70 days creamy flavor stringless high-yielding unfazed by heat, drought, cold nights, and most pests.
DRY BEANS
Pinto 90 days cooks much faster than other dry beans, even without soaking. May be eaten as a green, snap bean when young.
Soybeans and Edammame
Envy 72 days Upright 2” plants that ripen early. Excellent quality. Ripens all at once-good for freezing or drying. Succession-sow.
BEETS
Bull’s Blood tops 35 days; roots 58 days a staple in salad mixes. Easy even with chilly evenings and poor soil.
Early Wonder Tall Tops 45 days. Ultra-easy to grow, early, great flavor, and lots of greens for cooking – a favorite in home gardens for years.
BROCCOLI
Di Cicco 48-85 days Compact 2-3’ light-green plants. Harvesting the central 3’4” central head stimulates production of numerous smaller side shoots. Quality and long harvest period make it the best broccoli for home gardens. Freezes well. 110 seeds $2.00
Piricicaba 56 days halfway between standard grocery store broccoli and a raab, large plants produce lots of small green heads. Stalks, leaves, also sweet and tender. Good frost tolerance. hot-weather performance. Produces at 90 degrees. 110 seeds $2.00
CABBAGE
All Seasons 85-95 days heat resistant Heads 8” x 10”. 85 seeds $2.00
Red Drumhead 85-100 days excellent flavor, good keeper handles heat well. Waxy heads repel rain and hold well in cold wet weather. Beautiful with flowers. 85 seeds $2.00
CARROTS
Chantenay 70 days wide, deep-orange, shorter roots cope well with problem soils. Yields heavily, keeps well, good eating, freezing, all purposes. Dependable.
Shin Kuroda 68 days very early, short wide 6” carrot extra easy to grow, good for spring or summer crops, all kinds of soils. Excellent flavor for eating, freezing, canning, pickling.
SWISS CHARD
EGGPLANT
Rosa Bianca 80-90 days creamy, mild, totally bitterfree.
Long purple 70-80 days excellent flavor. 22-38” plants with 4 or more 8”x2.5” fruits per plant. Quick-cooking.
Eggplant mix.
HOT-WEATHER GREENS
AMARANTH/edible green– Calaloo, Tampala 40-50 days. Heat-loving green tastes like spinach (couldn’t tell the difference in a taste test). Great for edible landscaping. Pinch top when about 6” to encourage bushy growth. Plant in succession and harvest when 10-14” tall, before it starts to flower. Wants heat and lots of moisture.
Egyptian Spinach 70 days can survive both dry and wet conditions fresh leaves eaten as salad or cooked greens, and dried leaves can be used to thicken soups or for tea. Grows about 2” tall.
Malabar Spinach 90 days on 6’ vines provide abundant tasty greens throughout the summer. Handsome on a trellis or screen.
Purslane 50 days does well in any garden soil. Fleshy, crunchy leaves. Salads, cooking green, braised, steamed, or in soups.
Aurora Orach 37-60 days An amazing rainbow of bright and unusual colors: red, gold, green, pink, carmine, and purple. Leaves shimmery – you really have to see.
LETTUCE
Looseleaf:
Bronze Arrow 60 days “ONE OF THE BEST LETTUCES IN THE WORLD.” Tasty at prime size for about three weeks even in hot weather without bolting. Takes cold equally well, only one left standing when the rest are frozen. Harvest leaf by leaf or as whole heads – grows back either way. Tops for appearance, and sweet flavor.
Merlot 58 days (30 for baby leaves) highest in antioxidants and anthocyanins the most beautiful lettuce in our garden. Very slow to bolt. Leaves have complete resistance to downy mildew races 1-16. Quite frost-hardy.
Butterhead:
Arctic King fall/winter 60-70 days bred for winter growth and resistance to rot and mildew from wet weather unbelievably vigorous fastest sprouting good choice for coldframes 300 seeds GB $2.00
Ben Shemen summer 60-70 days slow-bolting maintains quality in intense heat Large, compact heads very sweet even at 100 degrees+
Marvel of 4 Seasons spring/fall 45-70 days very hardy red butterhead. grows very well in cold spring soil. 300 seeds $2.00
Buttercrunch spring/summer 50-75 days compact green heads with crisp pale heart. 300 seeds $1.75
Stem Lettuce:
Cracoviensis spring/summer/fall/winter 40 days no other letttuce like Cracoviensis - heavily textured like dinosaur kale (making it very cold-hardy). When summer heat causes stem lettuce to bolt, the stalks are sweet and edible. Use stalks like celery. 200 seeds $2.25
Romaine lettuce:
Jericho summer 60-65 days heat-resistant large, dense green heads 12”-14” tall. “It will not bolt unless you beg it to.” Adds crispness to summer salads. 150 seeds $2.50
Winter density spring/fall/winter 55-65 days. Sweet-flavored with large, heavy, dark-green heads 9-10” high. Slow to bolt. crunchy hearts like an iceberg. The most frost-hardy head lettuce. 300 seeds $2.00
WINTER SQUASH
Black Futsu flesh is golden color that has the rich taste of hazelnuts 3-8 lbs each, vines give huge yields Good insect resistancer Pkt. $3.00
Cushaw White (Johnathan Pumpkin) 100 days sweet, pale orange flesh. Easy to grow, huge yields, and good resistance to squash bugs. Popular heirloom from the South.
Butternut - Violina 100 days wrinkled tan skin sweet orange flesh perfect for desserts, roasting, stuffing, and baking.
Butternut - Waltham 100 days Good yields, excellent-tasting, rich, orange-colored flesh. Great baked!
Musquee de Provence 120 days keeps extremely well, and very squash bug-resistant. So sweet and nicely textured that you can even eat fresh in thin slices.
STRAWBERRIES
Baker Creek catalog:
Red Wonder Wild Strawberry large, elongated, red fruits Ornamental delicious
Yellow Wonder Wild Strawberry very tasty Many prefer the taste to the more common red strawberry easy to grow from seed
Bountiful Gardens catalog:
Alpine Strawberry A European favorite. Perennial with no runners. Like a wild strawberry in size and intense, old-fashioned flavor. Popular for edging flower beds, in edible landscapes, window boxes. Bears the second spring from seed, and can crop all summer. Good in any well drained soil. 150 seeds $2.00.
SUMMER SQUASH
ZUCCHINI: Black Beauty, 50 days tender, creamy white flesh, dark green skin. Excellent freezer. Very early and productive. 25 seeds $1.75
TOMATOES
GREEN:
Aunt Ruby’s German Green 85 days Can grow to over 1 lb delicious sweet fruity much tastier than most reds winner of ’03 Heirloom Garden Show’s taste test
Emerald Evergreen 80 days Med-large fruit that stays “evergreen.” Rich and superbly sweet. One of the best popular market variety
CHERRY: Green Grape 70-80 days rich, sweet, zingy makes most red cherries bland in comparison
ORANGE:
Orange banana 80-85 days paste tomatoes that are bursting with fruity sweetness. Perfect for drying, canning, and paste. Also delicious fresh. Orange color is rare in paste tomatoes.
PURPLE:
LIKES HEAT Black Mauri (Black Moor) grape tomato sweet, flavorful, w/ crisp texture. High yields, even in hot conditions perfect salad tomato
FLAVOR Japanese Black Trifele 80-90 days no cracks flavor absolutely sublime heaviest producer for 2004 all summer long a favorite with many seed savers
RED:
LIKES HEAT Cosmonaut Volkov 75 days medium-large yield well even in hot weather perfect for canning or slicing from Ukraine
FLAVOR Cour di Bue 70 days 12 oz delicious sweet taste “ONE OF THE BEST-TASTING I’VE EVER TASTED.” Great for fresh eating or cooking (why not canning? Call and ask)
SAUCES Goldman’s Italian-American thick flesh perfect for sauces good flavor fresh or canned
LIKES HEAT, COLD, WET/EARLY North Dakota Earliana 60 days 6-9 oz produced even in the face of cold wet springs or hot dry summers (We’re gonna have both)
DISEASE-RESISTANT Tappy’s Heritage 85 days good disease resistance, great yields, perfect shape wonderful flavor one of our all-time best-selling varieties
TASTE/PASTE Weeping Charley 80-85 days excellent-tasting, almost paste tomato sweeter and juicier than standard paste varieties heavy production
WHITE:
DETERMINATE /TASTE/PASTE/PRODUCTIVE Cream Sausage 70-75 days elongated paste sweet bushy plants quite productive
FRESH/TASTE/YIELDS Great White 80-85 days 1-lb giant superbly wonderful deliciously fruity one of our favorite fresh-eating tomatoes yields can be very high
TASTE/YIELDS White Tomesol 80 days bursting with fragrance and natural goodness one of the best tomatoes I’ve tasted sweet and rich 8 oz heavy yields
FRESH/TASTE White Queen 70-75 days 4-8 oz one of the best flavors of all tomatoes intensely sweet
YELLOW:
Golden Monarch 80 days sweet and tangy 10-14 oz plants produce lots
TC Jones 80 days from Kentucky 8-12 oz exceptional flavor tall vines produce lots
Yellow Icicle days unknown flesh that is thick, sweet and perfect for paste and canning. Incredible to eat fresh.
CHERRY:
EARLY/YIELD/TASTE/HARDY Dr. Carolyn 65 days burst of fresh, sweet flavor heavy producers hardy plants
SEMI/DETERMINATE (red):
HEAT/DISEASE-RESISTANT/DETERMINATE: Homestead 80-83 days Developed for southern states productive wilt-resistant firm, tasty flesh
HEAT/ DETERMINATE Pearson 80 days Excellent yielder in hot, semi-arid areas large globular fruits perfect for canning
TASTE/ DETERMINATE Rutgers 60-100 days Good for canning, also excellent fresh 8-oz globes Good yields and flavor
SEMI/DETERMINATE CHERRY:
FRESH/TASTE/DISEASE-RESISTANT Chadwick Cherry or Camp Joy 80 days delicious, sweet flavor huge yields disease resistant
FRESH/ DETERMINATE/TASTE/EARLY/PRODUCTIVE Koralik 65-70 days (55 from transplanting) sweet flavorful enormously productive for a determinate
BELL PEPPERS (Baker Creek catalog)
Albino Bullnose 3-4” cream color mild, sweet flavor loads of fruit from early summer until frost on very compact, dwarf plants. 10 seeds $2.00
Ashe County Pimiento sweet produces red fruit very early incredible yield thick flesh that is ideal for preserving or fresh eating. Pkt $3.00
Emerald Giant heavy yields good variety for the South. Pkt. $2.00
Jimmy Nardello Italian Long, thin-skinned frying pepper dries easily such a rich flavor that this variety has been placed in “The Ark of Taste” by the Slow Food organization. Pkt $2.50
Large Sweet Antigua long, tapering bell pepper very sweet and highly flavored tall plants highly productive Pkt $2.50
Lipstick 70 days delicious 4” fruit early super sweet. Pkt. $2.50
Melrose superb heirloom frying pepper 4” fruit start producing very early very sweet. Great fried or fresh Pkt $2.50
Orange Bell Super sweet, good-sized among the best-tasting of all peppers. Large yields. Pkt. $2.75
Patio Red Marconi perfect in raised beds. on compact plants that are perfect for limited spaces. Sugary sweetness. Pkt. $250
Purple Beauty 75 days produces loads of beautiful bells on compact, bush plants. Crisp texture
Quadrato D’Asti Giallo 80 days giant yellow very thick walls, flavor is outstanding very heavy yields. Superb pepper Pkt. $2.50
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