Garden planning time: What is your no fail favorite variety?

[Kassaundra]

Oh then I may not be in 7B I don't know anything about new zones.

 

[Peaches Lee]

Heirloom pumpkins and squash. Delicious, unique shapes, stunning colors. Really a pleasure to grow and eat and make soups, pies, and breads with. Some of my favorites are Australian Butter, Galuex d'Eysines, Rouge Vif d'Etampe, Black Futsu, Butternut and Blue Hubbard--to name a few.

Striped Roman tomato, awesome! Various cherry tomatoes. Will be expanding this year with green, white, yellow, orange, pink, and black (purple) varieties because I've never had any of those. Garlic, always good to grow. So excited for the season to roll in!!

 

[chickencrazymamahen]

Just crusing the catalogs today! Stonehead Cabbage, Packman Broccoli, Delicious, Better Boy, Amish Paste Tomatoes, Super Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes; Fat n Sassy Peppers, Mariachi Hot Peppers; Merit and Stowells Evergreen Sweet Corns; Okra and Cantaloupes from seed we have saved forever, have no idea what it is; Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans; Derby Bush Beans; Sweet Potatoes from ones we started saving years ago; Red Sails, Green Ice and Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Flat Leaf Parsley, Big Leaf Basil, Cobbler and Red Pontiac potatoes; Straight Eight Cucumbers, Snowball Cauliflower; Bloomsdale Spinach. I think we are in zone 6 unless they moved us. SE Missouri

 

[3goodeggs]

Please tell me about the Amish paste tomatoes. I have been wanting to try them and just have not gotten around to it. I assume they would can well, Do you make sauce with them? The Romas are my no fail tomato, they do not pickle well, or make a great sandwich, but they stand up to our heat and insects.

 

[trailchick]

Periennal asparagus, then up every year without planting! make a whole area for it,
OKRA, I love it fried!!!

Sunflowers, any & all kinds, i saved all i grew last year to replant.....

 

[redhen]

Periennal asparagus, then up every year without planting!     make a whole area for it,
OKRA, I love it fried!!!                    e          :yiipchick
Sunflowers, any & all kinds, i saved all i grew last year to replant.....             

Asparagus,.. thats my next thing to try..
How do i get plants for that though?? Better in shade or full sun?

 

[trailchick]

RE: Asparagus
I do gather seeds from heritage plants because they grow in the water ditches
around here, but take WWaaayyyyy too long to get a harvest from seed.....

I throw em in that part of the garden for bio-diversity.

Any catalog will have roots for a buck a piece, generally 10/$10.00,
any variety. They do take a yr or so to start collecting.

plant em in a group, they will be coming up every year,
after it gets hot, no more harvesting, let em grow to begin next yr .

Full sun.......

 

[redhen]

Thanks!!!!!

 

[Mattemma]

I like getting varieties of tomatillos.Ground cherries are good too. Various cucumbers for the chainlink fence. I liked the round lemon cucumbers. Dh likes things stuffed so I get various shaped zukes.We are in Ohio zone 5-6

 

[Capvin]

Living in Central Florida also, I have begun my plants for the garden. In my last garden (Sep -Dec) I tried a variety called black cherry. It was very prolific, easy to grow and care for, and was just about the best tasting tomato I ever had.