Veggie Garden Seed….. Doug’s Pic
During one of my past KBND Radio “Garden Talk” shows I had a question in regards to some of my favorite and better performing veggie seeds. That said here is a list of some of my old and reliable varieties as well as a couple of newer introductions that should do very well for gardeners in colder, short season, High Desert regions.
Beans: Kentucky Wonder / Burpee Stringless / Romano Beets: Detroit Red Carrots: Nantes Cucumbers: Marketmore / Lemon / Calypso (pickling) Corn: Early Sunglow Chard: Bright Lights Radish: Champion / Cherry Belle Lettuce: Red Sails / Red Salad Bowl Melons: Ambrosia Pea: Little Marvel / Thomas Laxton / Wando Spinach: Bloomsdale Squash: Black Beauty Zucchini / Waltham Butternut Tomato: Sungold / Brandywine / Juliet
A few flowers that I must also mention that tend to do quite well in our unique gardening zone would have to include the likes of: Alyssum Asters / Calendula / Sweet Peas / Marigolds / Cosmos / Zinnias / Nasturtium / Bachelor Buttons (I just had to mention this one as it was one of the first seeds (along with a few fragrant early blooming Sweet Peas) I planted with my most wonderful grandmother in the small town of Frenchglen at the early age of about five or six!
I hope this small lister will help you in your plantings here on the “High Desert”. As I am sure you well know, now matter which ones you select the results are NEVER guarnteed. I sum the art of sowing seeds as a “Trip to Las Vegas”……… always a gamble….. and no… I don’t take trips to that city…. I just happily garden…… Doug
