Here are my favorite veggie that I grew for 2017 . nous you I ’m super picky and I ’m sure there are many other varieties out there wait to be tried that are majuscule . That ’s what keeps it interesting for me . Also I give you where I bought the seeds or transplanting . You may be able to buy these elsewhere but this is where I purchased them from .
2017 Tomato Winners
- ALL - TIME FAVORITE TOMATOLucky Cross : MY FAVORITE TOMATO - Bigger tomato . Starts chicken then flex more pinkish yellow on the exterior with red marbling inside . perfumed and delectable with few cracks . Ripens later in the time of year but before the remainder of the time of year . Part Brandywine and tastes like them . DELICIOUS ! Not to be confused with Little Lucky tomato . Seeds fromVictory Seeds
REDGoliath : A very abundant and nice sizing red tomato . No cracks and old - fashioned tomato look - excellent . Seeds fromTotally Tomato seeds
Costoluto Genevese : Beautiful fluted love apple with old - fashioned tomato sapidity from Italy . seeded player fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Marmande Garnier Rouge : A medium to heavy dreary - red slightly flute love apple from France - first-class old - fashion tomato feel . Seeds fromSecret Seeds combine
swelled Zac : vast , red unfermented tomato - takes all season to mature but still one of my favorites - worth the wait . Transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
PASTEGoldman ’s Italian American : My favorite for a sauce tomato - Unique , beautiful and large tomatoes have a pear form , being guy and pleated . These have an intense red-faced colouring and rattling savour when right . duncish , red flesh is unadulterated for delicious tomato sauces . Ripens towards end of season . Seeds fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds
PINKNEW!Stump of the humans : Big pinkish tomato with sweet flavor . Good at eminent altitudes . seed fromTomato Growers
PURPLE or BLACKPurple Cherokee : Dusky purple with gloomy shoulder - Always a favorite - sweet , flavor . Seeds fromSeed Savers Exchangeor transplant fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Paul Robeson : Dark brown with green shoulder - Always a pet - sweet , earth flavor . Seeds fromSeed Savers Exchangeor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
BI - COLORPink Berkeley Tie Dye : Dark pink with greenish grade insignia - great sweet flavor . come fromWild Boars Farmsor transplantation fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Black and Brown Boar : dark-brown - ruddy tomato with green band - skillful , angelical , earthy flavor . seed fromWild Boars Farms
NEW!Summer of Love : orotund and very meaty red / jaundiced bi - color beefsteak with violet anthocyanin splashes on the sun - kissed fruit - wonderful flavor . Seeds fromWild Boars Farms
NEW!Lover ’s Lunch : A very beautiful and tasty striped reddened / yellow with bi - coloured form . This declamatory , meaty , fruity and sweet-scented tomato plant has stand - out savour . ejaculate fromWild Boars Farms
NEW!Lucid stone : First they ripen yellow , than more of an orangeness when very advanced . Very attractive with black purple anthocynin splashes on shoulder that line with the yellow skin . Flavor is very good- Sweet with fruity tones . Very meaty , very few Seeds – One of the best varieties for heat tolerance . semen fromWild Boars farm
NEW!Solar Flare - XL : self-aggrandizing than the regular Solar Flare - very sweet-scented red with weak yellow stripes . seed fromWild Boars farm
CHERRY TOMATOESArtisan Blush Tiger : I love this one - fruity flavor . seed fromJohnny ’s Seedsor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Pink Bumblebee : Great sweet relish . Seeds fromJohnny ’s Seedsor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Black Cherry : One of my deary that I grow EVERY twelvemonth . Seeds from Seed Savers Exchange or transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Sungold : One of my few hybrids - Always a best-loved - super sweet chickenhearted cherry tree tomato . Transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
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2017 vegetable winners
ARUGULAWasabiarugula : This garden rocket gives the same nozzle - tingle mavin as the wasabi condiment used in Japanese bag . This variety is very agile to dash but scrumptious . maturate in early spring before hotness . Seeds fromJohnny ’s Seedsor graft fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
BEANS - DRYNEW!Borlotti‘Lamon’beans : mount beautiful pick , red spattered shell on alfresco with beans being a pale garden pink with red splotches at heart if you let them dry out . I like to harvest them when ironical . According to the Venetians , Lamon’sare “ THE ” bean for ‘ pasta fagiolo’ . Seeds fromSeeds of Italy
BEANS - GREENÉmériteFilet Pole Bean : Émérite is a true Filet Bean from France , produced on graceful vines acquire to 8′ magniloquent . When pick too soon and often , the beans are tender and have outstanding flavor . semen fromJohn Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds
BEETSCraupadine : I’ve tried this one before - poor sprouting every year except for one year and the one year it did germinate , it smack FANTASTIC - sweetish beet I ’ve ever eaten . Will attempt to start source inside this year to see if I get better sprouting . Would really like to get this one again . Seeds fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds
BOK CHOYViolettabok choy : A beautiful green with imperial tip leaves and tastes great sautéed . Transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
CABBAGEKalibosRed lolly : This easterly European heirloomcabbage has a pointed physique and intense red / purplish leaves . Beautiful and sweet flavor . seeded player fromSeed Savers Exchange
CHARDArgentatachard : Has gullible leaf with big white chaff that when fix , melt in your mouth . Plus it is the most inhuman tolerant mixture in my garden outlasting many other potpourri of spinach beet . seed fromJohn Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds
CUCUMBERSPoona Kheera : My all - time favorite eating cucumber . Seeds fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds
EGGPLANTFairy Tale : my favorite - never bitter or tough skin . No need to peel this small brinjal . I just cut them in one-half and saute or BBQ them . Transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
FENNELFlorenceFennel : A incandescent lamp case common fennel from Italy . Wonderful mild aniseed gustation to add to Chippino or Boulabaise . I chop it and freeze it for employment later . Seeds fromSeeds of Italyor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
PEPPERJimmy Nardello : first-rate sugared , ruby-red pepper - commodity for sauteing or cook on BBQ . It is thin - walled . safe cooked or bare-assed . cum fromSeed Savers Exchangeor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
SPINACHCarmel : A fabulous early spring prickly-seeded spinach with great smell . The only spinach to survive wintertime with row cover . seed fromJohnny ’s Seedsor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
SQUASH - WINTERWalthamButternut : I grow it because I had heard it does n’t get squash bugs and that was true for me - good flavor too . Seeds fromSeed Savers Exchangeor transplants fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
Rogosa Violina “ Gioia”Butternut : An Italian interpretation of Butternut . Grew much larger with excellent flavor and no squash hemipterous insect - YAY!Seeds fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds
SQUASH - SUMMERCostata Romanescozucchini : This is the most flavorful zucchini I ’ve ever tasted - sweet nutty flavour . Seeds fromBaker Creek Heirloom Seedsor transplant fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
WATERMELONMoon and Stars : This has a beautiful dark light-green skin with yellow ‘ star topology ’ . Taste is super fresh and it ripened before the end of the season . ejaculate fromSeed Savers Exchangeor transplantation fromAgua Fria Nurseryhere in Santa Fe
