Tried and True Or New What S Good for You

Tried and True or New--What’s Good For You OSU Master Gardener State Conference 2016 Jeanne Poremski, OSU MGV, Stark & Summit Counties

3. Eat IN the garden 4. Dragon Tongue Bean, Phaseolus vulgris; crisp, juicy, stringless 5. Mexican Sour Gherkin, Melathria scabra; 2” fruit, grow up on trellis 6. Lunchbox Pepper, Capsicum anuum; Nearly seedless snacker, from johnny’s 7. Pepper Escamillo; big sweet golden meaty bull’s horn pepper with recessed stem 8. Bull’s Horn Pepper, Como di Toros; Carmen 2006 AAS National Winner, Escamilla 2016 AAS National Winne 9. AAS-All American Selections; regional and national selections of vegetable and flower introductions 10. Tomato Celebrity, 1984 AAS National Winner, consistent fruit shape and flavor, disease resistant 11. Tomato Indigo Pear Drops, golden with purple shoulders, delicious 12. Tomato Indigo Rose, Galapagos ancestor, baseline for ongoing breeding 13. Tomato Indigo Cherry Drops, delicious; Chocolate Cherry, delicious with interesting flavor 14. Tomato Experimental #34, #35; tasty hybrids in the pipeline 15., 16. Tomatoes, endless shapes, forms, colors, flavors 17. Tomato, Tangerine; “...better source of lycopene...” USDA 18. Celery Redventure; can be successful in OH, grow for leaf, seed as well as stem for seasoning 19. Okra Red Burgundy, Abelmoschus esculentus; grow for fruit as well as garden ornamental 20. Okra Candle Fire; 2017 AAS National Winner, smooth ribless fruit, orange-red 21. Eggplant Ping Tung, Solanum melongena; slim and firm, not bitter, can be pickled 22. Cucumber Marketmore 76, Cucumus sativus; dependable, disease resistant 23. Cucumber Suyo Long; Chinese origin, long, attractive, flavorful, most disease resistant in 2014 24. Cucumber Lemon; round, yellow, over-mature fruit are not bitter 26., 27. French Charentais Melons, Cucumus melo; Petit Gris de Rennes (left), possibly Savor (right) exceptional flavor, intoxicating fragrance, small plants and fruits 23. Watermelon Mini Love, Citrullus lanatus; 2017 AAS National Winner, luscious, small 24. Wild cabbage, ancestor of all brassicas we eat today, cliffs bordering the Mediterranean 25. Brassica oleracea and its forms: non-heading kales--acapitata heading cabbages--capitata swollen stemmed kohlrabi--gongylodes Brussels sprouts--gemmifera broccoli--cymose cauliflower--botrytis 26. Broccoli Artwork, Brassica oleracea; 2015 AAS National Winner; calabrese sprouting type with small heads, produces over long season, flavorful 27. Broccoli Romanesco; broccoli x cauliflower cross, exceptional flavor, heavy feeder, requires a very long growing season, usually not as pretty as pictures 28. Cabbage Caraflex; pointed head of small size, needs less space in the garden, sweet, single- meal size 29. Kalettes; Kale x Brussels Sprouts cross, heavy feeder, large plant, a very long season plant that may never mature in our latitude 30. New Zealand Spinach, Tetragonia tetragonoides; tastes like cool weather spinach but not related, harvest throughout summer, can be used as a ground cover 31. Onion Sets, for bunching onions; Onion seeds and plants, for bulb onions 32. Candy Onion; very successful in Ohio in both the north (long day latitude) and in the south (intermediate day latitude) 33. Squash Winter Honeybaby, Cucurbita muschata; 2017 AAS National Winner, short and shrublike vines, mildew resistant, short, fat and sweet 34. Zucchini Eight Ball, Cucurbita pepo; good flavor as small ball, great for stuffing when 5”. 35. Squash Delicata x Spaghetti = Stripetti; quick grower with very sweet Delicata flesh and separating nutty flesh of Spaghetti, sweet at time of harvest 36. Winter Cover Crop; another crop for the garden, as important as the food, include summer variety, fall variety and winter variety, select for varieties that winter kill or mature and die in spring; chop plants for mulch, plant between stubble to keep roots in the ground or, if you insist, transfer to the compost pile. Late cover mix pictured: cereal rye, oilseed radish, hairy vetch, crimson clover; visit Walnut Creek Seeds.com 37. Vegetable gardens can be beautiful if that is the plan; design for season long ornamental interest

Jeanne Poremski 1290 Desert Street NE Uniontown, OH 44688

entomology.osu.edu/welty; Celeste Welty, Ph.D., [email protected]

Sally Miller, [email protected] https://u.osu.edu/vegetablepathologylab/; https://u.osu.edu/vegetablediseasefacts/;

Cover Crops: Walnut Creek Seeds, Carrol, OH http://www.walnutcreekseeds.com

Soil Health: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/health/ Vegetable Seed Sources 2016 Jeanne Poremski, Master Gardener Volunteer, Summit Co., OH (WEBSITES BELOW; COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER)

Adaptive Seeds www.adaptiveseeds.com Artistic Seeds-Le Jardin du Gourmet artisticgardens.com Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds www.rareseeds.com Berlin Seeds, 3628 State Rt. 39, Millersburg, OH, 44654 Botanical Interests www.botanicalinterests.com Bountiful Gardens www.bountifulgardens.org Burpee Seeds www.burpee.com Crosman Seeds www.crosmanseed.com Evergreen Seeds, Asian vegetables www.evergreenseeds.com Fedco Seeds www.fedcoseeds.com Heirloom Seeds www.heirlooseeds.com High Mowing Seeds www.highmowingseeds.com T.J.Hudson, Seedsman www.tjhudsonseeds.net Gourmet Seed International www.gourmetseed.com Johnny’s Selected Seeds www.johnnyseeds.com New World Seeds and Tubers www.newworldseeds.com Nichols Garden Nursery w ww. nicholsgardennursery.com Ornamental Edibles www.ornamentaledibles.com Otter Farm, British www.shop.otterfarm.co.uk Park Seed Co. www.parkseed.com Pennard Plants, British www.pennardplants.com Pinteree Garden Seeds www.superseeds.com Plant World Seeds, British www.plant-world-seeds.com Renee’s Garden Seeds www..reneesgarden.com P.L.Rohrer & Bros. www.rohrerseeds.com Sand Hill Preservation Center (sweet potatoes) www.sandhillpreservation.com R.H.Shumway’s www.rhshumway.com Seed Savers Exchange www.www.seedsavers.org Seeds from Italy www.growitalian.com Seeds of Change www.seedsofchange.com Stokes Seeds www..stokeseeds.com Sustainable Seed Co. www.sustainableseedco.com Synergy Seeds www.synergyseeds.com Territorial Seed Co. www.territorialseed.com Turtle Tree Seed Farm www.turtleseedtree.org Terroir Seeds, Underwood Gardens www.underwoodgardens.com Vesey’s Seed Co. www.veseys.com Victory Seed Co. www.victoryseeds.com

There are many, many other domestic seed suppliers that list standard high quality seeds that are probably already delivered to your mailbox.