Home Vegetable Varieties for El Paso County by Bill Hodge and Bill Mead Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service El Paso County Master Gardeners

Vegetable Recommended Varieties

Asparagus UC157, Jersey Giant Bean, field dry Dwarf horticultural, Pinto, UI-114 (Univ. of Idaho-114) Bean, bush Contender, Topcrop Bean, yellow Improved Golden Wax Bean, Pole Snap Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder Bean, Bush, Lima Henderson Bush Bean, Pole, Lima Florida Speckled Beets Ruby Queen, Detroit Dark Red Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage, Chinese Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) Ambrosia

Carrots, Baby Short ‘n Sweet Celery Utah 52-70 Chives Onion or Wild Chives (Allium schoenoprasum), Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) Collards Georgia Southern Corn, Sweet Kandy Korn Corn, Sweet, White Silver Queen Cucumber, Slicing Sweet Slice, Sweet Success, *Lemon Dill Bouquet, Mammoth Eggplant Black Magic Eggplant, Oriental *Ichibon Endive, Broad Leaf, Florida Deep Heart Endive, Curly Leaf Green Curled, Salad Green Garlic Elephant, *Silver Rose Horseradish Maliner Kren Kale

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Vegetable Recommended Varieties

Kohlrabi Early White Vienna Leek American Flag Lettuce Leaf Buttercrunch, Paris Island, *Romaine Lettuce, Head Iceberg, Ruby, *Salad Bowl Mustard Southern Giant Curled Okra Simpson Spineless, Lee Onion, Bulbing *TAMU Supersweet (1015Y), White Ganex, Yellow Ganex Onion, Bunching (Scallions) Evergreen Parsley Plain Italian Parsnip Hollow Crown Peas, English Green Arrow Peas, Edible Pods Dwarf Grey Sugar, Sugar Snap Pepper, Sweet *California Wonder, Big Bertha, Sweet Banana Peppers, Hot Hungarian Wax,*Long Red Slim Cayenne, *Mild Jalapeno,*Serrano, Habanero Potatoes *Red LaSoda, *Kennebec Jack O’Lantern, Small Sugar, Big Max Radish White Icicle, Cherry Belle Rutabaga American Purple Top Southern or Cowpeas California #5, Crowder, Mississippi Silver, Pink Eye Purple Hull Spinach *Baby’s leaf, New Zealand Spinach Squash, Summer, Yellow *Early Prolific Straight neck, Sunray, Early Summer , Summer, Green , Summer, White Pattypan, St. Pat Scallop Squash, Winter Table Ace, Butternut, Vegetable , , Green Fordhook, Green Whopper II Squash, Zucchini, Yellow *Gold Rush Sweet Potato Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant, Lucullus, Rhubarb Chard, Ruby Red Tomato, Large Fruit *Celebrity,*Better Boy,*Early Girl,*Heat Wave, *Big Boy, Roma, *Viva Italia Tomato, Small Fruit *Porter Improved, *Red Cherry, Tomato, Small Fruit Yellow *Yellow Pear Turnip *Purple Top White Globe Watermelon Crimson Sweet, Mirage, Jubilee

* Denotes those vegetables grown by Master Gardeners at Vegetable Demonstration Garden

Acknowledgment: Revision of Home Vegetables for El Paso County by John White, CEA; date unknown.

Rev. October 2018