Tomatoes
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Better Boy
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Mentioned by two respondents. One said, “My personal favorite is
Better Boy for a full size tasty tomato that bears up until frost.”
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Park’s Whopper
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Brandywine
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Kellogg Breakfast
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Sweet 100 (cherry)
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“I love the sweet, small fruit that is prolific most of the summer.
When the heat, drought, insects and disease have stifled my other tomatoes, I
know I will still have cherry tomatoes from my Sweet 100 plant!”
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Brandy Boy
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Big Mama
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“best for putting up”
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Early Girl
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4th of July
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Black Cherry
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“just wonderful”
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Wuhib (paste type)
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“Amazing productivity and disease resistance.”
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Beans, Pole
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White Mountain Half Runner
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One gardener will only grow the ones from the Ferry Morse seed
company.
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Blue Lake
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Rattlesnake
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Chinese Yard Long
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Musica
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“a VERY heavy producer”
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Kentucky Blue
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Beans, Bush
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Roma
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Festiva
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Soleil (a yellow bean)
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Emerite (French filet bean)
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“tiny and tender and flavorful”
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Peppers, Sweet
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Sweet Goliath
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King Arthur
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Chocolate Bell
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Sweet Banana
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Christmas Bell
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Camelot
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Big Bertha
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Colossal
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Peppers, Hot
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Lemon Drop
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Bhut jolokia (very hot)
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Jalepeno
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Lettuce
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Red Sails
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Black Seeded Simpson
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Heirloom Speckles
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Marvel of Four Seasons
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Buttercrunch
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Red Oak
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Swiss Chard
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Rainbow
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Perpetual Spinach
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Watermelon
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Moon & Stars
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Georgia Rattlesnake
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Spinach
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Renegade
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Shallot
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Ambition
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Garlic
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Mr. Pope’s
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“being developed by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange”
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Peas, Green
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Sugar Snaps
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Mentioned by two respondents.
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Telephone
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Sugar Ann
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Peas, Southern
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Purple Hull
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Pigott Family Heirloom
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Zipper Pea
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Kale
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Tuscan Lacinato
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Fennel
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Fino
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Florence
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Potato, Sweet
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Vardamon
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Potato, white/Irish
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Fingerling Russian Banana
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Yukon Gold
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Russet
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Kennebec
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Purple Majesty
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Red Pontiac
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Pumpkin
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Rouge d’etampes (Cinderella)
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Knucklehead, Goosebumps
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From the “Superfreak” Series
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Turnip
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De Milan Rouge
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Squash, summer
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Yellow Crookneck
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Yellow Straightneck
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Squash, winter
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Chinese Pumpkin Squash
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Okra
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Clemson Spineless
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Collards
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Morris Heading
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Beets
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Chioggia
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Cantaloupe
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Ambrosia
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Hale’s Best
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Cucumbers
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Any burpless hybrid
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Straight Nine
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There are so many varieties available that choosing is difficult, and there are some varieties in catalogs and on seed racks that won't work well in our soils and climate and with our diseases and pests. The hope is that this list will help other gardeners as they plan their upcoming gardening year.
UGA also lists vegetable varieties that have been shown to do well more generally in gardens across Georgia. The list is part of the Vegetable Planting Chart that helps gardeners decide when to plant each kind of vegetable. Dates on the chart are for middle Georgia, which means that gardeners in Cobb County will need to adjust the planting dates by one to two weeks (later for spring planting, earlier for fall crops).
UGA also lists vegetable varieties that have been shown to do well more generally in gardens across Georgia. The list is part of the Vegetable Planting Chart that helps gardeners decide when to plant each kind of vegetable. Dates on the chart are for middle Georgia, which means that gardeners in Cobb County will need to adjust the planting dates by one to two weeks (later for spring planting, earlier for fall crops).
