season 2011.

[jack66]

Which varieties of vegetables and fruits do you plant the next year ?

Tell us please !

[garnetmoth]

oh noes! already!?

OK I do have some picked-
tomatoes:
I really missed Clear Pink Early and will grow it again next year
loved Black Cherry, will grow again
Probably found some Bloody Butcher seed (these are the only for-sure so far)

Beans-
Barnes Mt. Pole - want to try making leather britches (dried beans)
red yardlong bean (dont know if its red noodle, the only named variety I had is Baker Creek Red Seeded from a few years ago but they are certainly burgundy podded!)

Okra-
Didnt get many to germinate but tried Red Velvet- they sure are pretty and will get a 2nd try

New Zealand Spinach- even in a bad location, rambles and makes a nice hot weather spinach substitute.

Salad burnet- seems totally cold hardy, and has been great in this years dry weather also. I prefer it in the cold wet weather (more tender) but our kept rabbits like it all the time

1- year old Cornus Mas may get their spots picked out and put in the yard....

[jack66]

Cool !garnetmoth !

Me, I prepare already my ground

Next Friends .

[roper2010]

This is some of what I'm growing next spring.
Tomatoes: Spears Tennesse Green, Belize Pink Heart,
Tumbling Tom Yellow, Principe Borghese, Christmas
Grape, Kosovo, Thai Red Turtle Egg, Thai Pink Egg,
Persimmon, Amish Paste.
Peppers Hot: NuMex Heritage Big Jim, NuMex Pinata,
Datil, Onza, Red Carribean, Tobago Seasoning, Limon,
Chocolate Habanero, Boonie Pepper, Goat's Weed,
Giant Jalapeno, , Chinese Five Color, Fatalli, Hot
Finger, Aji Dulce#2, Costeno Amarillo, Aji Panca, Fefferoni,
and whatever I order from Peppermania.
Sweet Peppers: Jimmy Nardello's, Sweet Pickle, Carmen,
Fat'n'Sassy, Gypsy, Lipstick, Quadrato Asti Giallo, Florina
Orange Sun, Banana Pepper.
Beans: Rattlesnake, King of the Garden Lima, White
Dixie Baby Butterbean, Sugar Snap, Roma II Bush Bean,
Dixie Speckled Butterpea.
Okra: Emerald, Burmese.
Herbs: Genovese Basil, Anise, East Indian Lemon Grass,
Siam Queen Basil, Dill.
Eggplant: Thai Long Green, Rosa Bianca, Listada De
Gandia.
I just ordered a small Kaffir Lime & Persian Lime 'Bearse'

[Joseph Lofthouse]

I grow most of my own seed: Things that have worked well for my family and I over the years. In most cases we have long since lost track of the original variety names or they have been so co-mingled that a variety name does not make sense any more, other than to call them Joseph's cantaloupe or Jim's onions.

My land-race tomatoes: Earliest Ripening, Earliest slicers, main season slicers/canners, large fruited, largest fruited, and 20 or so varieties from the nursery to see if any of them are suitable for including in the land-race for 2012. (Except that I have misplaced my earliest slicer seeds that I collected a few months ago. Hopefully will reacquire them before spring.)

My land-race cucumbers: Mostly marketmore, garden, and english types.

Commercial Lemon cucumbers.

My pickling cukes (Wisconsin SMR).

My green beans. My snap-bean land-race.

My land-race moschatas: necked pumpkins, butternuts, cheese, and moschata pumpkins.

Commercial Sweet corn: Ambrosia, Bodacious

My sweet corn: Colorful selection of Astronomy Domini, Spero's Sparkler se+, and ~20 varieties of F1 segregating corns. The first homozygous sugary enhanced corn from my breeding project.

Painted Mountain flour corn
My popcorn
My Ornamental Indian corn

My purple top white globe turnips.

Commercial Radish mix.
Commercial Lettuce mix.
Brite lites swiss chard.

My carrot variety (Mostly orange Danver's and short Nantes types with some purple influence.)

Commercial Red carrots.
Commercial Parsnips.

Commercial Onions: Walla Wall. Big Daddy. Yellow. Purple.

My land-race slicing onions. My walking onions.

Garlic (Sure need a new variety!!!!)

Commercial varieties of summer squash: gray patty pan, yellow patty pan, 8-ball zucchini, black zucchini, gray zucchini, crookneck, yellow straightneck, yellow zucchini. (And any other pepo summer squash that looks interesting.)

Blacktail mountain watermelon (working on adapting it to my farm)

My Charleston Gray watermelon subvariety

My land-race cantaloupe.

Looking for non-wrinkled varieties of spinach.

My land-race short vined shelling peas.

My land-race sweet peppers. (Banana and bell)

Commercial varieties of jalepeno and poblano peppers.
Commercial pimento peppers.

Commercial Maxima squashes: Hubbard, Banana, Buttercup, That Orange Warty Thing.

My tiny early hubbard type squash.

Commercial Howden Pumpkin.

My gourds. Commercial gourds.

Jerusalem artichokes.

Commercial Day neutral Tribute strawberries.

Commercial Winter pea cover crop.

Feral land-race wheat.

Silverline melons. Would like to grow other early maturing melons other than muskmelons.

Would like to find rice beans.

I am interested in finding more smaller squash varieties.

And no doubt during the winter I will find a couple dozen varieties of things that just have to be added to this list.

[wildseed57]

Boy just got done with cleaning out this years garden and might yet plant a quick fall crop of greens, Kale, Brocs, mustards and lettuce.
For next spring several shelling and sugar snap peas lots of lettuces, then as things warm up beans Purple pole, along with one called Giant purple, some green snap been which will be pole types also lots of yard long beans to. I will be looking for a yellow pole type over the yellow wax bush beans (to much bending there) maybe some more soy beans for a late harvest, onions, garlics, maybe some wild ones, Later when the soil is warm enough I have cukes that I will be planting. I save seeds of some cukes, Also I have a large jar of tomato seeds that I grow each year Okra same thing I have a jar that I take seeds out of and put seeds back in at the end of the season, I really would like some melons, I have some saved seeds of these also. No Corn, I just don't have the room maybe some summer squash. This year I wasted space growing Cardoon which is a close cousin to the Artichoke we didn't know just how to fix them by wrapping them with newspaper so that they will blanch the darn things are so bitter else wise. So out they go I'll replace them with eggplants Yum my favorite along with lots of sweet peppers and a good long row of my wild species of pepper and some super hots like my Bhut Jolokia and 7 pods, and chocolate congos. , plenty of Thai basil I really use a lot of it. I'm still trying to work up a section for some Peruvian plants like Yacon, Chia plants , Maca and some others, I want to get a section going for some perennial vegetables that will come up year after year. Most of this will happen for sure, what might happen is that I may not be here to plant all the goodies, Right now I'm trying to get my life back on track and get some bills taken care of. I might have to drop my DSL and Satellite and maybe my phone for a month or so till I can see daylight again. I have 8 potted rare pepper species that I have planned to overwinter, but now I may have to find them a home. So that is some of whats happening for the garden next year.
George W.

[Penny]

Hmmmm, i cant honestly decide yet.

[bluelacedredhead]

Long Pie Pumpkin is on my list to try in 2011.
Tomatoes that I tried this year for the first time and which will be returning are:
Jersey Giant
Wisconsin 55 Gold
Guernsey Island Pink Blush (thanks Grunt !!)
Taos Trail (also Thanks Grunt!!)

[jack66]

Seeding predictions in my garden seasons 2011.


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[jack66]

Seeding predictions in my garden seasons 2011.

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[klorentz]

God is this ever a loaded question. With all the maters peppers and punkins/winter squash seeds I have.I want to get several other crops out next year like green beans ,snap peas,cukes,greens,melons and root crops. Would love to have my berries again too.Wish I could be more exact on varieties but with over 100 tomatoes and all my other seeds I would be here typing way more than my fingers could stand it.

[littleminnie]

Joseph I was thinking yesterday that you should breed a yellow fingerling and call it "Goldfinger".

I am stumped on varieties especially for brassicas this season. I need to buy less varieties in greater bulk to save money and it scares me a little. Some things sound so good in the catalog and then perform so poorly.

Here is what I think now (2011 catalogs haven't come yet though)
beans- saved rattlesnake and provider
beets- gold and chioggia from Baker's
Broccoli- not sure yet- want heat tolerance and good side shoot production
bok choy- have one that bolted too quickly, trying mei qing choi next season
cabbage- still deciding -like the ones in Pinetree especially Point One but don't want to order from them this season
Napa cabbage- Johnny's Rubicon
Carrots- a mix package and purple Dragon from Irish Eyes
Cauliflower- green, purple and Romanesco from Baker's, may spring for some Cheddar seeds
Cucumber-Beit Alpha in Bakers sounds good but too few seeds for what I need, want just one OP variety
Eggplant- have some seeds from trade but they are too late maturing- looking for a neat small Italian variety ok in MN
Edamame- envy again I think
kohlrabi- have Vienna but don't want to grow many kohlrabi
leeks- plants from Johnny's
lettuce- mixed baby leaves, also one butter and one oakleaf
melons- Delicious 51 and Crimson Sweet
Onions plants- from Irish Eyes - more sweets for customers
scallions- Guardsman from Johnnys is good
peas- Super Sugar Snap from Johnnys and Wando from Irish Eyes, maybe another shell pea
Parsnip- saved thousands of Harris Model
Peppers- plenty of sweet bells, also Banana and Marconi (not Gourmet Orange- that one is not good!)
hot peppers-bhut jolokia again, Thai, Laotian, lemon yellow and a lot of real big hot peps for market like poblano, anaheim, jumbo jalapeno and numex
Potatoes- only Rose Finn Apple, Reddale and Carola- trying to get some scab resistance!
pumpkin- have Cinderella and some small pepo seed
radish- trying to choose a really early and mild normal red variety for customers, plus watermelon (no more Black Spanish)
Rutie- Laurentian
Spinach- Tyee and Emu from Johnny's
Summer Spinach- maybe something from Bakers
Summer Squash- looking for PM resistance. Anton, Zephyr, crookneck and pattypan (no round this year)
winter squash- saved TN sweet potato, also will grow any c. pepo I can get seeds for like acorn, dumpling, delicata
moschata- either Long Island Cheese or Fairytale (musque de provence) all the pepos should give people something to buy
sweets- beauregard again
swiss chard- may grow rainbow mix
turnips- red stem and yellow
tomatoes- for sure a OP sungold, persimmon, flamme, stupice, green zebra for market, brandywine, Underground Railroad, JD Texas, Sicilian Saucer, Coustralee...
sunchokes- yellow and red
garlic- planted about 300 hard and 300 softneck- Chesnok Red, Purple Glazer, Music, Chinese Pink, Transylvania, Nootka Rose, Simonetti and some unnamed.
Shallots- regular and some red, round from Asian market

Any advice on broccoli, cabbage, cucumbers, eggplant, potatoes or winter squash would be appreciated. I'm really worried about the broccoli since I always grow a mixed packet with good results but want to start getting a larger amount cheaper.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

My local seed store has started carrying more mixes: Mixed radish, mixed lettuce, mixed carrots, etc. Wherever such mixes are available they are what I grow. It's just too hard for me to predict what varieties will do well for me based on a photo in a catalog.

[wildseed57]

I posted earlier what I had plan to grow, but I have been thinking about some of them. I need to find some that are real heavy producers that still have real honest to god flavor. I will be growing some of my hot peppers so there is no problem there, the sweet peppers I will have to look at some of them, I really like the Marconi peppers but some times they just take to long to really get going, this is where I'm flexible and I may pick up a hybrid or two. My eggplants are Ok there isn't many varieties that are really produce a lot I have four varieties so I'm covered there. I think I need to find at least one or two Tomatoes that will put out 1/2 to two pound tomatoes like mad and at least one of the two needs to be a Indeterminate variety so that I will have tomatoes all season long. I grow some of the yellow and orange ones along with some orange/red Bi-colored
tomatoes, most of which are big beef steak types I did save seeds from a hybrid early red beef steak that had lots of disease resistance to it because I'm hoping to pass on some of its resistance to some of my other tomatoes that don't have any, its flavor though was to store bought and the skin was to thick, you almost had to skin it before you could cut it into pieces and at times I ended up with a large piece of tomato skin in my mouth which I don't like, and even though it had lots of blight Resistance to it it was the first to bite the dust when the blight hit. Although it was highly rated I may look at another hybrid to see if it is any better than the one I had last season.
My snap pole beans did really good but I need to find a yellow pole rather than a bush yellow wax, which means I will have to do some looking to find one. I grew some LuneVille melons, but i need to work on knowing when its getting ripe so I can cut back on watering. My Okra did well enough this year but I found one variety that was mixed into my seeds that was quite spiny, so I have to remove all the spiny ones that may come up. Well this is turning into a long post so i will cut it short, as I still have a lot to think over and look at what i might replace some with.
George W.

[klorentz]

Well it is my hope to have more planted next year. A lot more variety and better planing and not have to scramble to get everything out. Some things we lacked this year like beans and peas and root crops.Here is what is on the table for next year so far.

Beans:

Jade green beans

Fordhook Lima beans

Cherokee Wax

Peas:

Lacy Lady 2 (snap)

Lincoln

Carrots:

Little Finger

Not sure what other ones.

Beets:

Detroit Dark Red : I am the only one that likes good pickled beets.


Potatoes : had good luck with Red LaSoda a few years back.They where awesome.They did better than Red Pontiac. Not sure yet on russet. Yukon Gold is another one that has done well for me.Thinking about one fingerling.


Garlic: Any variety that will do good here. We love our garlic. I know they should be in the ground now but it is most likely we will be moving.


Melons: There are so many tasty melons out there it is hard to choose what ones to get. I want to find a good heirloom watermelon with good disease resistance. This year Sugar Baby died from a wilt of some kind so I want to get something that is a bit more hardy.


Radishes

Onions: If I can would love to get some plants from Dixondale Farms.

Herbs: Want to have a good selection of kitchen herbs to help make my own seasonings and sauces.


Turnips: Purple Top White Globe


Tomatoes: Lots of tomatoes

Ditto on the peppers

Summer squash

Pumpkins/Winter Squash

Corn

Cucumbers

Eggplant

I think that covers everything Lots to think about so I figure I will be spending the winter selecting varieties.And that is part of the fun of gardening.

Kevin