Registered: Mar 2006
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This is way off topic , but it's warmed up and will soon be garden planting time. For you experianced gardeners , what is your favorite variety of sweet corn , tomatoes , and green beans ? I'm thinking about trying some new ones this year and wondered what you prefer ?

Last year I did well with:

Celebrity tomatoes

Peaches and Cream sweet corn

Blue lake bush green beans

What are your favorites ?

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here's what i like:
tomatoes - cerleberty, big boy, better boy, yellow boy and brandywine

beans blue lake and top crop

corn peaches and cream and illini super sweet

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LOL I like these off topic ones.

Corn : Silver King and Silver Queen so I will try some peaches and cream if I can get it.

Beans: Favorite is Kentucky Wonder pole beans, but they did not do good last year and my trellis is still up so I am going to no-till Kentucky Wonder down one side and Blue Lake Runners down the other and let the best bean win. I also have some Blue Lake Bush that are reliable.

Tomatoes: Big and Better Boy, Celebrity and going to try some Brandywine if I can get them. I have problems with fusarium wilt at times so I can't deal with Heirlooms much.

Potatoes : Red LaSoda they are about three inches tall already .

Cowpeas: Texas cream 40 is a little sweet pea I love. Colossus and -- Purple Hull crowders do good if I can keep the deer out. The big Colosuus don't go through my pea sheller as easy though.

Okra : Clemson Spineless.

Pepper : all kinds but only a couple bushes of Habanyaro, they go a long way. LOL

First crop of sweet corn just emerging today and planted 2 rows of Blue Lake bush today. I set Vidalia onions last month and some dividing onions. Over here the Vidalias only get about as big as a golf ball. The dividing onions sure are good as greens in any soup.

I'm probably too late already with Broccoli and Cauliflower and Spinach.

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For a sandwich, you just cant beat a MR. Stripey tomato. They fill the bread with one slice, have low acid, and an awesome taste. And they look pretty cool too.

Pioneer used to put out a sweet corn, I believe they called it Incredible. It was the best I'd found, but I think they quit makin it.

I usually put out Blue Lake beans also.

Can't seem to plant enough of them Ambrosia melons. I've got to get to them before the cat does, he likes em too. That one took me a while to figure out what was eatin out of my garden. A vegan kitty.

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We grow mostly heirloom tomatos and heirloom apples. Everything else is pretty modern.

Tomatoes are Brandywine, Black Krim, Cherokee Purple and Mr.Stripey.

Sweet Corn we go with Bodacious or Peaches and Cream.

Stonehead Cabbage, German Butterball potatoes and Contender green beans. Mary Washington Asparagus and Ozark Beauty Strawberries.

Heirloom Apples are Yellow Delicious, Newtown Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin and Song of September. We also have two old Macs that produce real well.

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I like Big Boy and Better boy tomatoes.

Sweet corn- I've used Bodacious and Ambrosia. Can't go wrong either way with these.

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I grow a few Early Girl tomatos for an early crop but my main crop is Big Boys.

I like Illini Extra Sweet corn but grow other varieties.

I mainly grow Top Crop green beans.

I have already got onion sets, radishes, turnips, beets, and musturd greens planted. I have a portable green house and I will start alot of my summer crops a month early in the green house in peat pots and then transfer them to the garden. I will put in some rows for a 2nd crop and I try to have 3-4 plantings to stagger my crops. I will put in a few potatoes on Good Friday. I have gardened since I was a boy, my grandmother got me started. I studied green house horticulture when I went to college. You can't beat green beans with new potatoes, a slice of fresh onion, a tomato slice, a radish, a ear of fresh sweet corn, and a slice of ham for supper. Hey Frances Gail, is supper ready yet? LOL

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when i have a place to garden,,,,,,Pic Red or Celebrity on the tomatoes..


i prefered field corn over sweet....

on the beans,,,,in the grocery stores down in texas they have a brand of pinto beans called Casserole,,,,,id just plant them.......its a mix of around 4 differnt type of pinto's...

PURPLE HULLS PEAS!!!

yellow straight neck squash.ground bn breakingthe

noonday onions... white/sweet

red taters that would have been breaking the ground by now...

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tomatoes: roma, brandywine and and early girl started
parsley and oregano started

cal. wonder for peppers and i usually throw a couple jalapenos in the garden and some banana peppers for stuffing

blue lake green beans, spaghetti squash, jersey giant asparagus, and hopefully some yukon gold taters.

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plant some serendipity corn you wont ever plant anything else garenteed

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We didn't do any green beans or corn last year, but did have decent luck with Big Boy and Better Boy tomatoes, which is all my daddy ever planted when I was a kid.

I think this year we'll probably do the tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, and zucchini. Maybe some bell peppers. I have to have my fried squash and zucchini during the summer! Can't hardly keep everyone from eating them all as soon as you take them out of the fryer. We had a time keeping the deer out of everything in Daddy's garden last year, and I got too busy to do much thinning of the herd around there last deer season so I guess corn will be a no go this time around.

Too bad more young folks these days don't get to experience planting and harvesting their own food. I've got a lot of good childhood memories of helping in the garden, canning, snapping peas, shelling beans, shucking corn, and making homemade salsa. Then getting to catch some fish to fry with it all. Wouldn't trade those memories for the world now!

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Better Boy Tomatoes

Peaches and Cream Corn

Half Runner Green Beans

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not sure of the spelling but,try ambrossa sweet corn the best i think.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SCBluetickGal
[B] We had a time keeping the deer out of everything in Daddy's garden last year, and I got too busy to do much thinning of the herd around there last deer season so I guess corn will be a no go this time around.

TO KEEP DEER OUT. PUT A STRING AROUND IT ABOUT3 TO 4FT HIGH TIE WHITE PLASTIC BAGS TO IT EVERY 5 OR 6 FEET
IT WORKS BEEN DOING IT FOR 5 OR 6 YEARS

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Corn- Silver Queen
Beans- Blue Lake
Okra- Clemson Spineless
Maters- Better Boy
Onions- Texas sweet
Squash- Crookneck
Cucumbers- Can't remember what kind, but I like 'em
Peas- Purple Hull

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