Here is my list of vegetables I’ll be growing this year

TOMATOES
I organized the tomatoes by how many days to harvest from the day they are transplanted outside. Of course this is just an estimate depending on where you are growing them and other conditions. In the past, I’ve organized by color only, but wanted to get a better representation of early, mid, and late tomatoes. In the past, I’ve grown too many late tomatoes forcing me to wait all season. All are Heirlooms or Open-Pollinated (OP) except for a few hybrids which are listed. as such. I always try a few new ones-keeps my interest up!

CHERRY TOMATOES

—Black Cherry-dark purple-65-70 days to harvest
––Super Sweet 100s -red-cherry-65 days to harvest-very sweet and very prolific
—Moby-yellow-dwarf plant-65 days to harvest-slightly larger cherry tomato
NEW! California Sungold-supposedly a little bigger and crack resistant than original Sungold

EARLY SEASON

—Goliath Pio-HYBRID-red-65 days to harvest-excellent old fashion tomato flavor
NEW! Matina-red- 65-70 days to harvest-prolific early tomato
NEW! Prudens Purple-67 days to harvest-New to me!

MID-SEASON
—Black Krim-black/purplish-75 days to harvest
—Cherokee Carbon-Black/purple-75 days to harvest
—Cherokee Chocolate-brick color-70-75 days to harvest
—Jaune Flamme-orange-70 days to harvest-super prolific-super tasty
—Black Prince-70-75 days to harvest?
—Paul Robeson-black/brick color-75 days to harvest

LATE SEASON
NEW! Black Beauty-black-75-80 days to harvest
-I grew this years ago
NEW! Striped German-yellow with pink blush inside-big-78 days to harvest
—Virginia Sweets-yellow bi-color-80 days to harvest
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OTHER VEGGIES

BEANS-William Woys Weaver-TBD-He sends rare bean seeds for me to grow out for his 501c3 every year

GREEN BEAN-Fresh eating
—Rattlesnake-fresh eating green/purple splashes on pods-good in heat/droughts

SUMMER SQUASH
—Friulana -Does not attract squash bugs as much as other varieties of summer squash in my garden. These produce an abundance of light yellow, “bumpy” fruit. They aren’t beautiful, but they taste great. Doesn’t get watery when cooked. This is the most common zucchini in the markets of Venice in summer.

WINTER SQUASH
—Waltham Butternut-Does not attract squash bugs as much as other varieties in my garden.

PEPPERS
-the last few years I’ve been trying different sweet peppers from around the world.
—Lava Red-from Italy-70-80 days to harvest-a variety of Corno D’ Toro/sweet-thick wall
—Jimmy Nardello- from Italy/80-90 days to harvest/sweet-thin wall
—Calabrian Caviar-from Italy/75-95 days to harvest/sweet-thick wall
—Piquillo Lodosa-from Spain/Basque/75 days to harvest/sweet-thin wall
—Poblano-from Mexico//65-80 days to harvest/mild heat-thick wall
—Criolla de Cocina-from Nicaragua-78 days to harvest-sweet-thin wall
—Doux D’ Espagne-from Spain/75 days to harvest/sweet-thick wall
—Shishitos-from Japan-small tapas green pepper
—Habanada-like Habanero but no heat-mall orange pepper
NEW! Bridge to Paris-from Italy-prolific red 8-9” thick skin
NEW! Giant Aconcagua– from Argentina huge red pepper
NEW! Marconi-from Italy-huge 8-12” peppers from Italy

CUCUMBERS-FRESH EATING
—Poona Kheera-our favorite fresh eating cuke to eat-never bitter

CUCUMBERS-PICKLING
—Bothsby Blonde-good for Bread n butter pickles/sweet pickle relish

CAULIFLOWER
—Freedom-white variety
—Cheddar-orange variety

WINTER/SPRING LETTUCES

—Santoro–butterhead
—Yugoslavian Red-butterhead
—Speckles Troutback-butterhead
—Italienischer-oakleaf

ARUGULA
—Rocket

SPINACH
—Bloomsdale-early
—Space-early

ONION
NEW! Purple Bunching onion (scallion)

SUMMER/FALL LETTUCES-Batavians or Summer Crisp lettuce (plant seeds in June)
—Salanova-Batavia-red and green
—Jester-Batavia
—Joker-Batavia

CHARD
—Ruby chard

—Argentata-white stems-most cold hardy
—Orange chard

KALE
NEW! Red Russian

OKRA
NEW! Jing Orange

RADISHES
—Pusa Gulabi and Pusa Jamuni-beautiful tasty radishes
—Watermelon radish

PEAS
Super Sugar Snap-grows 5’ tall

CARROTS
—Dragon purple
—Kyoto Red
—Black Nebula
—Scarlet Red

BEETS

—Cylindra
—Badger Flame
—Chiogga

ASPARAGUS
NEW! Jersey Knight-plants will be delivered in March