Chelan/Douglas Master Gardeners share their success reports, and when its something for our table, its a tasty find. Chelan Master Gardeners list some of their favorite vegetable varieties they grew in 2012. A plus + sign indicates more than one MG recommends the variety.
Vegetable | Type | Variety | Source | What’s So Great? |
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Bean | bush | Tender Pod | plant at intervals for full season production. + | |
pole | Blue Lake | + | ||
pole | Kentucky Wonder | |||
pole | Fortex | long, stringless. + | ||
Cabbage | Red Acre | beautiful and delicious. + | ||
Cucumber | slicer | Lemon | Various | best peeled, hard to determine when to harvest. + |
slicer | Straight Eight | Various | ||
Eggplant | Japanese | Fairy Tale | mini-sized- 4-5″ long by 1″ wide | |
Garlic | Chesnek Red | |||
Spanish Red | ||||
Lettuce & Kale | leaf lettuce | Red Sails | ||
leaf lettuce | Deer Tongue | |||
kale | Red Russian | |||
kale | Lacinato | |||
Onions | white | Copra | good for storage | |
Pepper | ancho | Magnifico | Territorial Seed | + |
paprika | Hungarian | |||
hot | Hot Thai | |||
hot | Sweet Heat | mild hot. + | ||
sweet | Lipstick | Territorial Seed | ||
Squash & Zucchini | butternut | Waltham | + | |
buttercup | Very productive, drum-shaped, very tasty | |||
pumpkin | Sweetie Pie | |||
zucchini | Gold Rush | yellow | ||
Tomato | slicer | Early Girl | Various | short season, productive |
slicer | Big Momma | 5″ long x 3 wide. meaty, few seeds. Fresh or cooked | ||
slicer | Bonnie Best | medium size, canning, fresh | ||
roma | Ranger | |||
heirloom | Mortgage Lifter | large, prolific | ||
heirloom | Stupice | |||
cherry | Gold Rush | Territorial Seed | bright apricot color, delicious | |
cherry | Super Sweet 100 | best of show, MG tomato tasting | ||
mini-Plum | Nugget | Bright apricot, delicious | ||
grape | Iris Candy | pear-shaped, prolific, sweet | ||
Spinach | Tyee | |||
Herbs | dill | Fernleaf | more leaves, compact | |
basil | Summerlong | small, compact, slow to bolt | ||
cilantro | Calypso |