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Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« on: January 28, 2011, 09:14:18 PM »
(I'll work on parsing this list out to the individual groups later)

Vegetable Varieties for North Central Texas  (from http://tarrant.tamu.edu/garden/vegvar.htmlbad link now (2/2012) --that's why I copy text!)

ASPARAGUS Jersey Giant, UC 157

BASIL Sweet, Spicy Globe

BEANS, SNAP BUSH Blue Lake 274, Top Crop, Tendercrop, Contender, Tendergreen, Derby

BEANS, YELLOW BUSH Goldcrop, Improved Golden Wax

BEANS, PINTO Improved Pinto

BEANS, SNAP POLE Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder

BEANS, LIMA BUSH Henderson Baby Bush, Jackson Wonder

BEANS, LIMA POLE Florida Speckled, King of the Garden

BEETS Pacemaker III

BROCCOLI Spring only: Premium Crop, Emperor Spring or fall: Green Comet, Galaxy, Packman

BRUSSELS SPROUTS Prince Marvel, Royal Marvel

CABBAGE Early Jersey Wakefield Ace (wrinkled leaves)

CABBAGE, CHINESE Jade Pagoda, Michihli, China Pride, China Flash(Napa type)

CANTALOUPE -Hybrids: Magnum 45, Ambrosia, Mission, Explorer, Caravelle, -Non-Hybrids: Uvalde, Perlita

CARROT Royal Chantenay, Burpee's Toudo, Park's Nandor, Danver's 126, Red Cored Chantenay

CAULIFLOWER Snow Crown

CHARD, SWISS Rhubarb (red color), Lucullus, Fordhook

COLLARDS Blue Max, Georgia

CORN, SWEET Yellow: Golden Queen, Guadalupe Gold Bicolor: Sweet G-90, Honey & Pearls White: Silver Queen, Frontier

CUCUMBER, PICKLING Carolina

CUCUMBER, SLICING Sweet Slice, Burpless, Dasher II, Slicemaster

EGGPLANT Florida Market

GARLIC Texas White

KALE Dwarf Blue Curled, Blue Knight

KOHLRABI Grand Duke

LEEKS American Flag

LETTUCE, BUTTERHEAD Buttercrunch

LETTUCE, LEAF Salad Bowl, Black Seeded Simpson, Red Sails (red color)

LETTUCE, COS or ROMAINE Romaine

MUSTARD Florida Broadleaf, Southern Giant Curled, Tendergreen

OKRA  Lee, Emerald, Clemson SpinelessTexas Extension in Tarrant County http://tarrant.tamu.edu/garden/vegvar.html

ONION BULBING Yellow: Texas Supersweet (Grano 1015Y), Yellow Granex; Red: Red Granex, Burgundy White: Crystal Wax, White Granex

ONION, BUNCHING (SCALLIONS) Beltsville Bunching

PARSLEY  Moss Curled, Plain (Italian)

PEAS, ENGLISH  Little Marvel, Wando

PEAS, EDIBLE-PODDED Spring only: Sugar Snap(bush) Spring or fall: Sugar Ann(bush), Sugar Pop(bush), Super SugarMel(vine)

PEAS, SOUTHERN Blackeye #5, Mississippi Silver, Purple Hull, Zipper Cream Crowder, Colossus Crowder

PEPPER, HOT Hungarian Yellow Wax, Long Red or Slim Cayenne, Jalapeno, TAM Mild Jalapeno

PEPPER, SWEET BELL  Green: Big Bertha, Jupiter (mature color: red), SummerSweet 860 (mature color: yellow)

PEPPER, SWEET SALAD Gypsy, Sweet Pickle, Cubanelle

POTATO, IRISH Red: Norland (early season), Red LaSoda (midseason)    White: Kennebec (late season)

POTATO, SWEET  Jewell, Centennial, Vardaman

PUMPKIN  Connecticut Field, Spirit, Small Sugar, Autumn Gold, Jack Be Little(ornamental)

RADISH  Red: Inca, Champion, Cherry Belle    White: White Icicle, Snow Belle

RUTABAGA  American Purple Top

SPINACH  Melody, Coho, Fall Green

SQUASH, SUMMER Multipik, Dixie, Sun Drops, Burpee's Butterstick

SQUASH, SUMMER PAN-TYPE  Yellow: Sunburst  Green: Peter Pan

SQUASH, WINTER  Early Butternut, Sweet Mama, Table Ace, Table King Bush  Acorn, Cream of the Crop

SQUASH, ZUCCHINI  Green: Senator, President   Yellow: Goldrush

Note Regarding Tomatoes: Cultivars listed as determinate are the bush type whereas those listed as indeterminate are the vining type. "A" indicates genetic resistance to Alternaria,
"F1" to Fusarium wilt race 1, "F2" to Fusarium wilt race 2, "N" to root knot nematodes, "S" to Stemphylium (gray leaf spot), "T" to tobacco mosaic virus, "V" to Verticillium wilt.

TOMATOES, LARGE-FRUITED Spring: Determinate: Celebrity VFNT, Carnival VFNT, Surefire VF1, President VFNT, Merced VF1F2ST, Heatwave VF1F2SA     Indeterminate: Champion VFNT, Quick Pick VFNT, Simba VFNT, First Lady VFNT, Superfantastic VFN, Park's Whopper Improved VFFNT Fall: Determinate: Surefire VF1, Heatwave VF1F2SA

TOMATOES, PASTE Indeterminate: Roma VF, San Marzano

TOMATOES, SMALL-FRUITED Indeterminate: Porter, Cherry Grande, Sweet 100

TURNIP Spring or fall: Tokyo Cross, Royal Globe II, White Lady, Fall only: Just Right

WATERMELON   -Regular: Crimson Sweet, Sugar Baby, Royal Sweet, Orange Golden, Star Brite -Triploid or seedless (transplants only): Jack of Hearts,Supersweet 5032, Tiffany

This list was developed to inform the gardener of some of the better varieties of vegetables in this area. These varietiesTexas Extension in Tarrant County were selected for their productivity, their resistance to common diseases and for their adaptability to Tarrant County. Using recommended varieties will not necessarily produce the desired results. Proper watering, fertilization, weed control, etc., are also important aspects of successful gardening. Varieties are listed at random and not in order of preference.
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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2011, 07:53:58 AM »
Collin County Master Gardeners has a list also:
http://www.ccmgatx.org/Plants/Vegetables.asp

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ASPARAGUS (Asparagus officinalis):
Jersey Giant, Jersey Knight

BEANS, SNAP BUSH (Phaseolus vulgaris var. humilis):
Blue Lake 274, Top Crop, Tendercrop, Contender, Tendergreen, Derby

BEANS, YELLOW BUSH (Phaseolus vulgaris var. humilis):
Goldcrop, Improved Golden Wax

BEANS, PINTO (Phaseolus vulgaris):
Improved Pinto

BEANS, SNAP POLE (Phaseolus vulgaris):
Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, Jade

BEANS, LIMA BUSH (Phaseolus limensis var. limenanus):
Henderson Baby Bush, Jackson Wonder

BEANS, LIMA POLE (Phaseolus limensis):
Florida Speckled, Sieva Carolina (early)

BEETS (Beta vulgaris):
Detroit Dark Red, Ruby Queen

BROCCOLI (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis):
(spring only)
Premium Crop, Emerald Pride, Packman, Patron, Lucky, Green Magic

CABBAGE (Brassica oleracea var. capitata):
Bravo, Blue Vantage, Rio Verde, Savoy King (wrinkled leaves)

CABBAGE, CHINESE (Brassica pekinensis):
Jade Pagoda, Michili

CANTALOUPE (Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis)
Spring only:
TAM Dew, TAM Uvalde, Ambrosia, Israeli, Caravelle, Cruiser

CARROT (Daucus carota var. sativus):
Purple/Maroon Dragon, Nantes, Imperator 58

CAULIFLOWER (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis):
Snow Crown, Snowball Improved

CHARD, SWISS (Beta vulgaris var. cicla):
Rhubarb (red color), Lucullus, Bright Lights

COLLARDS (Brassica oleracea var. acephala):
Georgia Southern

CORN, SWEET (Zea mays var. saccharata)
yellow:
Kandy Korn, How Sweet It Is, Merit, bicolor, Sweet G-90
white:
Silver Queen

CUCUMBER, PICKLING (Cucumis sativus):
Calypso

CUCUMBER, SLICING (Cucumis sativus):
Sweet Slice, Burpless, Dasher II, Sweet Success, Poinsett 76

EGGPLANT (Solanum melongena var. esculentum):
Ichiban (Oriental), Black Beauty

GARLIC (Allium sativum ):
Texas White

KALE (Brassica oleracea var. acephala):
Dwarf Curled Vates

KOHLRABI (Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes):
Grand Duke Hybrid, Early White Vienna

LEEKS (Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum ):
American Flag

LETTUCE, BUTTERHEAD (Lactuca sativa):
Buttercrunch

LETTUCE, LEAF (Lactuca sativa):
Salad Bowl, Red Salad Bowl, Red Sails

LETTUCE, COS or ROMAINE (Lactuca sativa):
Paris Island

MUSTARD (Brassica juncea):
Tendergreen

OKRA (Abelmoschus esculentus):
Emerald, Lee, Clemson Spineless, Cajun Delight

ONION, BULBING (Allium cepa)
yellow:
Texas Grano 1015Y, Texas Grano 502, Yellow Granex
red:
Burgundy
white:
White Granex

ONION, BUNCHING [SCALLIONS] (Allium cepa):
Evergreen Bunching

PEAS, ENGLISH (Pisum sativum):
Little Marvel, Wando

PEAS, EDIBLE-PODDED (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon)
spring only:
Sugar Snap, Sugar Ann, Sugar Bon, Dwarf Gray Sugar

PEAS, SOUTHERN (Vigna unguiculata var. unguiculata)
California #5, Cream 40, Zipper Cream, Texas Pinkeye

PEPPER, HOT (Capsicum annuum var. longum):
Small Serrano (VERY hot), Small Cayenne (VERY hot), Habanero (VERY hot), Anaheim Chili (Hot Chile), Big Jim (Hot Chile), Hungarian Yellow Wax (Hot), Large Red Thick (Hot), Hot Jalapa (Hot), Jalapeno (Hot), TAMU Mild Jalapeno (Mild), TAMU Mild Chile (Mild)

PEPPER, SWEET BELL (Capsicum annuum var. grossum)
Big Bertha, Jupiter (mature color: red), Gypsy, Sweet Banana, Bell Tower, Pimiento (pimento)

POTATO, IRISH (Solanum tuberosum)
red:
Norland (early season), Red LaSoda (midseason)
white:
Kennebec (late season)

POTATO, SWEET (Ipomoea batatas):
Beauregard

PUMPKIN (Cucurbita pepo var. pepo):
Connecticut Field, Spirit Hybrid, Small Sugar, Big Max (or Big Mac), Jack Be Little (ornamental), Jack O'Lantern

RADISH (Raphanus sativus)
red:
Champion, White Icicle

RUTABAGA (Brassica napus var. napobrassica):
American Purple Top

SPINACH (Spinacia oleracea):
Melody, Coho, Fall Green, Malabar

SQUASH, SUMMER (Cucurbita pepo var. melopepo):
Multipik (yellow straight neck), Dixie (yellow crook neck), Sunburst (yellow), Sweet Mama (summer and winter), Black Magic (green), Patty Pan or St. Pat (white), Cougar (yellow straight neck), Gold Rush (yellow zucchini)

SQUASH, WINTER (Cucurbita moschata):
Early Butternut, Waltham Butternut, Table Ace, Table King Bush, Vegetable Spaghetti

Note Regarding Tomatoes: "A" indicates genetic resistance to Alternaria, "F1" to Fusarium wilt race 1, "F2" to Fusarium wilt race 2, "N" to root knot nematodes, "S" to Stemphylium (gray leaf spot), "T" to tobacco mosaic virus, "V" to Verticillium wilt.

TOMATOES, LARGE-FRUITED (Lycopersicon esculentum)
Early:
Bingo VFFTAST, Celebrity VFNT, Carnival VFNT, Sunpride, Sunchief, SunLeaper, Amelia and Solar Fire, Florida 47 & 91, Top Gun, Tomato 444 (or BHN 444)

TOMATOES, PASTE (Lycopersicon esculentum):
Roma VF, San Marzano (vining)

TOMATOES, SMALL-FRUITED (Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme)
Porter, Cherry Large, Sweet 100 (vining), Cherry & Grape, Red Cherry, Yellow Pear, Tomatillo

TURNIP (Brassica rapa var. rapifera)
White Globe

WATERMELON (Citrullus lanatus)
regular:
Crimson Sweet, Allsweet, Black Diamond, Charleston Gray, Jubilee, Tendersweet (yellow flesh), Jamboree, Sentinel, Ole, Mickeylee (small fruited)
triploid or seedless (transplants only):
Triple Crown, Tri-X 313, Millennium, Sweet Slice, Seedless Sweetheart
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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2011, 05:44:35 PM »
Great info!  Thank you!

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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2011, 10:40:45 PM »
This is Heather's (AKA Head Texas Worm Rancher) list of favorites:

Arugala—Rocket Salad
Beans (Pole)(Spring Planting): Kentucky Wonder, Scarlet Runner-for hummingbirds.
Beans Bush (Fall planting): Royal Burgundy, Blue Lake
Beet: Early Wonder, Gourmet Blend
Bok Choi: White Stem
Broccoli: Di Cicco and Waltham
Brussel Sprouts: Long Island
Carrot: Baby Finger, Scarlet Nantes, Carnival
Cucumber: Straight Eight, Homemade Pickles
Edamame: Envy
Eggplant: Black Beauty, Fairy Tale, Ichiban
Garlic: Gourmet Garlic Gardens Warm Winter Mix
Kale: Red Winter and Nero Toscano
Lettuce: Valentine Mix, Mesclun, Romaine Freckles, Romaine Parris Island, Romaine
Rouge D’Hiver, Buttercrunch
Melon: Honeydew, Hale’s Jumbo
Mustard: Red Giant
Okra: Clemson Spineless
Pea: Wando, Sugar Snap, Oregon Sugar Pod
Pepper: Habanero, Italiano, Yellow Banana, Jalapeno
Radish: French Breakfast
Spinach: Bloomsdale, Lavewa
Squash: Waltham Butternut (vine borer resistant), Black Beauty Zucchini, Early Prolific
Straitneck, Acorn, Spaghetti,
Swiss Chard: Bright Lights Blend
Tomato: For success: Matt’s Wild Cherry, Sun Gold (great taste too), Sapho, Juliet,
Super 100. For Taste: Cherokee Purple—winner on taste! Good Slicers: Cherokee
Purple, Celebrity. Best Paste Tomato: San Marzano
Watermelon: Moon and Stars, Icebox, Sugar Baby
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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2011, 02:30:06 PM »
"Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Region B - North and Central Texas" - Texas AgriLIFE Extension







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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2017, 01:30:04 PM »
Recommended fruit tree varieties for north central Texas (DFW area, Dallas/Fort Worth, North Texas, Southern Oklahoma)
from https://lazygardener.co/2017/01/04/recommended-fruit-tree-varieties-for-different-regions-of-texas/

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Apples: Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Winesap, Jonathan, Arkansas Black, Granny Smtih, Pink Lady, Honeycrisp

Peaches: Elberta, Belle of Georgia, Red Skin, Loring, Red Globe, Dixieland, Tex Royal, La Feliciana

Plums: Methley, Santa Rosa, Ozark Premier, Morris, Bruce

Apricots: Blenheim, Royal, Moorpark

Nectarines: Karla Rose, Sunglo, Red Gold

Pears: Ayers, Warren, Orient, Bartlett

Figs: Celeste, Brown Turkey, Texas Everbearing, LSU purple
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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2018, 05:38:47 PM »
Recommended Varieties by Collin County Master Gardeners  https://www.ccmgatx.org/media/4186/vegetable-varieties-CCMGA-10-3-09.pdf

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Asparagus
 UC157 excellent, green, slow to fern
 Atlas new, purple-tipped, slow to fern
 Purple Passion mild flavor, purple, less productive
Beans
 Blue Lake old standard, reliable, good flavor
 Contender vigorous, easy to pick, good flavor
 Nash heat tolerant, good flavor
 Festina reliable, good flavor
Beets
 Detroit Dark Red do well early spring through summer, mulch well, greens are great when young
 Lutz Green Leaf good for greens
 Golden tasty and beautiful, heirloom
Bok Choy
 Red Choi good flavor when small, grows well in containers, red foliage
 Joi Choi fast maturing, heat tolerant
Cabbage
 Savoy types grows well here, slow to bolt in heat, tastes good, needs consistent BT applications for cabbageworm
 Mammoth Red Rock large red cabbage, overwinters pretty well, heirloom
Cantaloupe
 Ambrosia very prolific, sweet 2 - 3 lb. melons, about 14 per plant
 Caravelle produces a large amount of melons with great taste
 Superstar
 French Orange super sweet, firm, produces June - October
Carrots
 Rainbow F1 mixed colors of very sweet slender carrots
 Danvers Half Long broad shoulders, very tasty, will oversummer without much damage
 Sweet Treat short, sweet
 Purple Dragon dark purple skin, sweet orange inside
Caluliflower/Broccoli
 Violet Queen purple intermediate type with cauliflower leaves and broccoli-like head, delicious, gorgeous, takes light frost
Corn
 Hickory King white, open pollinated For grits or tortilla flour, harvest in late summer when dry or harvest young for roasting ears.
 Mirai short plant, excellent flavor
 many varieties but should be 65 day corn for here to avoid high temperatures and earworms
Cucumber
 Sweet Success average length, needs lots of mulch
 Sumpter pickling size, stays sweet
 Dasher II large size, good tasting slicer
Eggplant
 Dusky late to produce so you can plant seedlings later in spring
 Ichiban long cylindrical type for slicing
 Gretel 2009 AAS winner, lots of long, small, slender white fruits, medium sized plant, good in containers
Garlic - Red Toch softneck, redstreaked, large bulbs, matures a bit earlier
Leek - Giant Musselburgh huge, overwinters well, heirloom
Lettuce
 Buttercrunch sweet, butter head
 Green Ice consistent, loose-leaf
 Prize Leaf red-tipped loose-leaf
 Little Caesar good flavor, romaine
 New Red Fire looks good, large heads, tastes great
 Simpson Elite
Okra
 Cajun Delight lower, produces more per linear foot of rows
 Clemson Spineless 2 or 3 plants per family are plenty, pick often
Onions
 Yellow Granex Hybrid 33 sweet mild flavor
 White, Yellow or Red Granex consistent and sweet, flat
 1015 large, sweet, round, yellow
 Bermuda old favorite, hard to find, flat, sweet
Peas
 English Pea - Maestro sweet, moderately mildew resistant, raised bed only
 Sugar Snap Pea
 Super Sugar Snap sweet, plump, productive, raised bed only
 Sugar Ann good producer of fat, edible pod snap peas
Peppers
 Big Daddy light yellow, marconi-type sweet pepper, very prolific
 Fish variegated foliage and fruit, gorgeous, ethnic heirloom, containers
 Fat and Sassy reliable, green to red
 Tequila beautiful lilac, productive
 Orange Sun sweet and beautiful
 Early Sunsation large, green to yellow, sweet
 Holy Mole very prolific, hot pepper used to make traditional Mole sauce
 Hungarian Wax small but prolific plants with fairly hot fruit, heirloom
 jalapeno easy to grow, compact plant, does well in containers
 jalapeno 'mucho nacho' plump red, not mild, but not real hot
 Mariachi hybrid spicy taste with mild heat, ripens in cream color and then turns red, 4" long, 2" wide, prolific, 65 days to harvest
 Mexibell hot, but looks like a bell pepper
Potatoes
 LaSoda good quality, red skinned
 Kennebec large, white keeper
 Yukon Gold flavorful, yellow, small to medium
 Desiree Excellent, small, yellow, gourmet
 Caribe pretty, purple skinned, white
 Russian Banana easy to grow, versatile fingerling potato, disease resistant
Radish
 Easter Egg mixed colors, tasty, easy to grow, matures quickly
 French Breakfast elongated red radish with white tip, mild flavor, easy to grow
 Nero Tondo Spanish black radish, gets quite large, very tasty and easy to grow
Squash
 Zebra Zuke delicious, striped, productive
 Sunray yellow, mild
 Gentry yellow crookneck, apparently bred for the South
 Greyzini matures and produces extra early before vine borers take hold, great flavor
 Zephyr a bi-colored 3-way hybrid of yelllow crookneck, delicata and yellow acorn squash, delicious, polific
Swiss Chard
 Bright Lights very easy, withstands high heat without bitterness, cut-and-come-again growing habit, pretty
 Fordhook Giant very large and very tasty, attractive landscape plant if gorwn in rich soil
Tomatoes - Large
 Early Girl easy to grow, tasty, matures quickly
 Celebrity tasty, disease resitant, handles uneven moisture better than most so less cracking, firm, easy to slice
 Carnival old favorite, large, flavorful
 Carbon dark fleshed, excellent flavor
 Paul Robeson brick colored, complex flavor, heirloom
Tomatoes - Small
 Juliet small red paste tomato, abundant elongated fruits, good flavor, keeps producing in summer, ripens in 60 days
 Sweet Baby Girl amall red cherry tomato, tender, sweet flavor, produces over long period of time ripens in 65 days
 Sweet Gold yellow cherry tomato, abundant clusters of yellow-gold tomatoes, fruity flavor, tender, long season, ripens in 60 days
 Porter small red tomato, less cracking than sweet 100s
 Sugary very tasty, large producer
 Yellow Pear incredibly prolific, indeterminate, heirloom
Turnips
 Purple Top
These varieties have been recommended by members of the Collin County Master Gardener Association as plants they ha
successfully grown. You may need to order seed to grow some of these plants. There are many other varieties
available and there are many other lists of recommendations. Go to our website www.ccmgatx.org for more information.
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Re: Recommended Varieties for North Central Texas
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2018, 03:23:26 PM »
Haley from the facebook group uncovered some good information from Baker Creek:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthTexasVegetableGardeners/permalink/10158687404174852/

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Haley Schmidt Salazar shared a link.

Just wanted to share this email i recieved from Baker Creek in regards to my inquiry on best choices for the DFW area:

Greetings Haley,

Here is a link to a page with some of our heat tolerant varieties that should perform well for you.

https://www.rareseeds.com/search/?r=1%7CHeat-Tolerant&mpp=50&keyword=vegetable

You may also access these selections and many others by using the search function on our page. You can enter broad crop types such as "vegetable" or "greens" or more narrow fields like "squash" or "tomato."
After searching a field there will be some filters on your left hand side, which include things like heat tolerance, drought tolerance, as well as geographic filters. These will be most useful to you, however there are many others you can toy around with.

Below are some more recommended selections:

Abu Rawan Tomato
Basrawya Tomato
Al Kuffa Tomato
Atkinson Tomato
Anasazi Bean
Gold Coast Okra
Kazakh Melon
Ancient Watermelon
Desert King Watermelon
Hopi Pink Flour Corn
Glass Gem Corn
Blue Speckled Tepary Bean
Egyptian Okra
Chapolote Corn
Painted Mountain Corn
Red Aztek Spinach
Aswad Eggplant
Full Red Radish
Galilee Spinach
Singara Rat's Tail Radish
Lucid Gem Tomato
Pusa Meghna Cauliflower
Estaceno Chili Pepper
Tesuque Hot Chili Pepper
Bolita Bean
Cana Dulce Sorghum
1500 Year Old Cave Bean
Chihuahua Landrace Squash
Bateek Samara Melon
Arka Surymukhi Squash
Ali Baba Watermelon
Nineveh Tomato
Afghan Honeydew Melon
Syrian Goat Horn Pepper
Syrian Green Lettuce
Tadifi Eggplant
White Sonora Wheat
Zuni Gold Bean
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