End year round up of Vegetable Varieties.

This year's crops were less than stellar.

Broccoli - Arcadia = Average size, bland taste, purple leaves in the cold

Cauliflower - Symphony - Average Size, Sweet Taste, Strong Smell!, not cold tolerant

Cabbage - Bronco - Average Size, Good taste, Slow Growing

Head Lettuce - Excalibur - Good Size, Good Taste, High % of deformed heads

Carrots - Sweetness II - Excellent Size, taste and tolerance!

Zucchini - Meteor - Horrible, few zucchinis, poor taste

Jalapeno Pepper - El Jefe - Excellent growth, taste, fruit size, and diseases/insect resistance

Okra - Cajun Delight - Short plant, slow growth, good pod production

Cantaloupe - Athena - Excellent all around

Cucumber - Sultan - Excellent growth, sweet taste, slightly oily cucumber

Bell Pepper - X3R Red Knight - Excellent growth, taste, diseases resistance

Tomato - Big Beef - Good Growth, Large excellent tasting tomatoes, poor resistance to leaf spot

Tomato - Rose - Large plant, large tomato, good taste, few tomatoes


As you can tell, few of the varieties really stood out this year, but that is what the garden is for! We have to weed out the bad ones so you don't waste your time growing them.

For your spring garden I would recommend:

Cabbage - Parel

Broccoli - Premium Crop

Cauliflower - Fremont

Head Lettuce - Tiber

Carrots - Sweetness II or III

These would need to be planted out side around the first of March.