Every year I have must grows, mostly in peppers (of course!
), but a few single varieties, like
County Fair cukes, because nothing else I have found is resistant to bacterial wilt, even when they claim to be.
Polaris is the best butternut I have found, so I grow it every year, but I keep trying a new one next to it, and something doesn't add up with the new one - the number of fruits, disease resistance, lateness, or the ability to store for long periods.
With beans,
Blauhilde purple pole beans I grow every season, as it is the earliest every season.
Fortex is a favorite, but not heat resistant, and drops blossoms.
Withner White I discovered a couple of years ago, and it turned out great, for size, and heat resistance, and last season I tried
Thai red Long Bean, which produced before Blauhilde, and produced great numbers, all the way through to the cold.
Tomatoes I don't have a large number of must grows, compared to how many I've grown, as so many have failed, in one way or another. So I'm always trying new ones. Here are the few I grow every year. Others I've grown several times, but not for many years.
Amish Gold Slicer
Big Beef
Green Tiger
Peppers I don't grow as many new ones every season, because I have so many that I must grow! Here's a list of the seeds I used last season, that I have grown before:
20+ Aji Dulce 2018
10 Aleppo 2017
30+ Chocolate Habanero 2017
30+ Fresno, saved 2018
30+ Gold Bullet tall 2017
30 Hanoi Market, saved 2018
7 Jalafuego 2017
30+ Jyoti 2018
10 Mosquetero Ancho 2018
30+ Numex Big Jim 2016
20+ Red Savina 2018
20 Superthai, saved 2018
5 Thai Dragon F1 2018
10 Thai Vesuvius 2017
There were others that I had grown before, but not always.
Then there are countless greens and herbs! With greens I keep trying new varieties, but can't get some things to grow well, like spinach. So Asian greens are what I stick with - much faster, and cold resistant.
Senposai,
komatsuna, some
bok choys (Win Win my favorite), and
mizuna I always have planted.
Swiss Chard I also plant all year.
Kohlrabi is a favorite vegetable of mine, and
kilibri is my favorite. It is a purple hybrid, which grows fairly large, without turning hard, like some.
Most of my herbs are perennials, but the basil isn't, and I usually start that from cuttings. My favorite variety is
Serrata, which is the slowest to bolt of all of the varieties I've grown, and is short and very bushy, with an incredible flavor. The other variety of basil I have to grow is
Siam Queen - the best Thai basil I have tried. Flat leaf parsley is pretty much generic, so I don't have to worry about varieties.