Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Polk County

Mark Currie, County Extension Agent-Agriculture and Natural Resources Phone: 936-327-6828 Email: m-currie@tamu.edu 602 East Church Street, Suite 127, Livingston, TX 77351 polk-tx.tamu.edu

Asparagus
Variety Apollo Atlas Jersey Gem Jersey Giant Jersey Knight Purple Passion UC-157 300 300 300 300 300 300 300

Jackson Wonder Bush

65 90 80

China Pride Jade Pagoda Michihili

85 65 80

Days to Harvest King of the Garden Pole Sieva or Carolina

Pole
Kentucky Wonder Northeaster Purple King Rattlesnake Smeraldo 60 56 75 63 55 Variety Big Top Bolero

Carrot
Days to Harvest 65 78 70 65 70 65 70 70 62

Nantes Half Long Purple Dragon Red Core Chantenay

Basil
Variety Spicy Globe Sweet Days to Harvest Variety 88 88 Chioggia Detroit Dark Red Pacemaker II

Beet
54 56 50 53

Days to Harvest Royal Chantenay Scarlet Nantes Sweet Treat Touchon (Heirloom)

Bean
Variety

Days to Harvest Red Ace

Baby
Short'n Sweet 68

Bush
Blue Lake Derby Dwarf French Tendergreen Early Contender Festina Florence Goldcrop Wax Improved Golden Wax Jade Long Tendergreen Maxibel Nash Tendercrop Topcrop 60 57 55 55 56 60 55 52 60 50 60 54 54 50 Variety Ace Variety Diablo Royal Marvel Tasty Nugget Variety Bonanza Early Dividend Green Comet Packman Premium Crop

Broccoli
Days to Harvest 55 45 40 50 55

Processing
Danver 126 75

Cauliflower
Variety Alverda (Green) Brocoverde (Caul/Broc) Majestic Days to Harvest 68 68 66 60 64

Brussels Sprouts
110 120 78

Days to Harvest Snow Crown Violet Queen (Purple)

Collards
Variety Champion Days to Harvest 70 55 75

Cabbage
78 53 75

Days to Harvest Flash Georgia Southern

Lima
Florida Butter Pole Florida Speckled Pole Fordhook Henderson Bush 85 85 75 65

Early Jersey Wakefield Ruby Perfection

Corn
Variety Days to Harvest

Chinese
Brisk Green China Flash 50 75

se: Sugary Enhanced

Ambrosia (Bicolor) Kandy Korn (Yellow) 75 89

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Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Polk County

Legend (Yellow) Sugar Buns (Yellow) Tendertreat (Yellow) 65 72 95 Variety Pingtung long 65 Vulcan Red 52

Garlic
Days to Harvest Freckles 120 120 120 Giant Caesar Little Caesar Plato II

Romaine
55 70 70 53

sh2: shrunken, supersweet, extra sweet Elephant

Crisp-N-Sweet (Yellow) Florida Staysweet (Yellow) Honey n Pearl (Bicolor) How Sweet It Is (White) Mirai Summer Sweet 85 85 78 87 70 81 Joi Choi Pac Choi Variety Mexican Purple New York White

Greens, Specialty
Days to Harvest Variety

Melon
Days to Harvest

Cool Season
50 50 Ambrosia Caravelle

Cantaloupe
86 80 75 80 90 80 85 85 85

su: Normal Sugary

Bonanza (Yellow) Merit (Yellow) Silver Queen (White) Sweet G-90 (Bicolor) 82 75 91 90

Kale
Variety Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch Dwarf Blue Curled Vates Nero di Toscano 55 55 50 50

French Orange Days to Harvest Magnum 45 Mainstream Mission Perlita Sugar Queen TAM Uvalde

Triple Sweet
Honey Select Serendipity 79 82

Rebor

Kohlrabi
Variety Days to Harvest 55 45 40

Cucumber
Variety

Honeydew
Honey Girl Honey Star Sweet Delight TAM Dew 75 76 90 100

Days to Harvest Early White Vienna

Pickling
Calypso Carolina H-19 Little Leaf Sumter 52 49 55 50

Grand Duke Purple Danube

Leek
Variety American Flag King Richard Days to Harvest 130 80

Mustard
Variety Florida Broadleaf Savanna Days to Harvest 40 35 50

Slicing
Diva Spacemaster Sugar Crunch Suyo Sweet Slice Sweet Success Sweeter Yet 58 55 57 61 62 55 50

Lettuce
Variety

Days to Harvest Southern Giant Curled

Butterhead/Bibb
Buttercrunch Esmeralda 70 55 Variety Cajun Delight

Okra
Days to Harvest 49 55 58 55 50

Crisphead/Iceberg
Prizehead 50

Clemson Spineless Emerald Louisiana Green Velvet

Eggplant
Variety Fairy Tale Neon Purple Rain Days to Harvest Brunia Red 50 65 66 Green Ice Red Fire Red Sails Redina 61

Looseleaf
50 45 48 52 55 49

Silver Queen

Onion
Variety Days to Harvest

Bulb
Bermuda Crystal Wax (Short Day) 95 60

Oriental
Ichiban

Salad Bowl (green)

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Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Polk County

Early Grano 502 (YWR, Short Day) Granex (YWR, Short Day) Red Burgandy (Short Day) Yellow Sweet Spanish (Long Day) Yellow TX Supersweet 1015 (Short Day) 80 100 110 125 110 Anaheim (Chile) Cherry Bomb Hidalgo Serrano Kung Pao Long Red Cayenne Mexibell 65 65 Mucho Nacho Jalapeno Super Cayenne TAM Jalapeno 75 65 85 85 65 75 75 70 70 75 65 Baby Boo 65 70 70 65 70 70 75 65 65 75 75 68 70 80 80 70 75 75 70 Variety Bloomsdale Melody Space Tyee Variety American Purple Top Variety Champion Cherriette Cherry Belle Easter Egg French Breakfast White Icicle Jack Be Little Small Sugar Triple Treat Howden Jack O'Lantern Variety Russian Banana (Fingerling) White Cobbler Yukon Gold 90 80 90

Pumpkin
Days to Harvest

Bunching
Evergreen Long White Southport White

Large
Connecticut Field 120

Medium
105 110

Parsley
Variety Italian Flat Leaf Moss Curled Pagoda Plain Italian Triple Curl 75 75 75 78 75

Days to Harvest Tequila Vera Cruz Jalapeno

Small
90 95 95 110

Sweet
Banana Supreme Big Bertha (Bell, Green) Blushing Beauty (Bell, YORI) Cubanelle (Green/Red)

Pea
Variety

Radish
Days to Harvest 20 24 22 25 25 30

Days to Harvest Early Sunsation (Bell)

English
Little Marvel Maestro Mr. Big Sugar Bon Sugar Mel Sugar Snap Sugar Sprint Wando 63 60 60 55 65 72 62 68

Fat 'N Sassy (Bell) Golden Giant II (Bell) Golden Summer (Bell) Gypsy (Bell, YOR) Jackpot (Bell) Jupiter (Bell, Red) Karma (Bell, Red) Lilac (Bell, Lavendar) Orange Sun (Bell) Senorita (Mild Jalapeno) 60 60 65 Summer Sweet (Bell, Yellow) Sweet Pickle (OYR) Sweet Spot (Banana, Yellow) TAM Mild Jalapeno 65 65 65 65 60 75 All Blue Caribo Desiree Kennebec (White) Variety

Rutabaga
Days to Harvest 90

Snap
Cascadia Sugar Ann Super Sugar

Spinach
Days to Harvest 45 42 40 53

Southern
Blackeye #5 Colossus Mississippi Silver Pink Eye Purple Hull Texas Pinkeye Zipper Cream

Potato
Days to Harvest

Squash
Variety Days to Harvest

Irish
90 95 95 80 80 100

Summer
Ambassador (Zucchini) Burpees Butterstick (Yellow, Straightneck) Conqueror III (Yellow, Straightneck) Dixie (Yellow, Cookneck) Early Yellow (Crookneck) 51 50 45 45 42

Pepper
Variety

Days to Harvest Norland (Red)

Hot

Red LaSoda

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Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Polk County

Eight Ball Tigress (Zucchini) Gold Rush (Zucchini) Goldbar (Yellow, Straightneck) Goldrush (Yellow, Straightneck) Horn of Plenty (Yellow, Crookneck) Lioness Magda (Zucchini) Multipik (Yellow Straightneck) Patty Pan (White, Scallop) Peter Pan (Green, Scallop) Prelude II (Butternut) President (Zucchini) Senator (Zucchini) Sunburst (Scallop) Sundance (Yellow) Sundrop (Yellow) Sunray (Yellow Straightneck) Sweet Gourmet (Zucchini) 35 52 43 52 41 50 45 50 60 50 40 49 41 50 52 62 50 50 Variety Days to Harvest San Marzano (Heirloom) 80 75

Large >12 oz
Better Boy (I) Big Beef (I) Big Boy (I) Bush Beefsteak (D) Bush Goliath (D) Capello (I) Carmello (Heirloom) Sunny Goliath Super Fantastic (I) West Virginia Sweet Meat (Heirloom) 70 75 78 62 68 85 70 70 70 80

Viva Italia (D)

Small <3 oz
Black Cherry (I) Blitz Cherry Grande (D) Dasher Dona (I) Gold Nugget (Cherry, D) Golden Gem (Cherry, I) Husky Cherry Red (I) Jolly (I) Juliet (Grape, I) 65 70 74 70 65 55 65 65 70 60 75 65 65 65 55 62 65 65 65 68 70

Medium 4-11 oz
Bush Early Girl (D) Carbon (I) Carnival (D) Carolina Gold (D) Celebrity (D) Champion (I) 54 80 70 75 70 70 65 52 66 69 72 72 68 70 72 69 75 78 72 73 74 68 65

Large Red Cherry (I) Small Fry (D) Sugar Snack (Cherry, I) Sun Gold (Cherry, I) Suncherry (Cherry, I) Sunsugar (Cherry, I) Sweet 100 (Cherry, I) Sweet Baby Girl (Cherry, D) Sweet Chelsea (Cherry, I) Vita-Gold (D) Yellow Cherry (I)

Winter
Acorn Types Buttercup Types Cream of the Crop Early Butternut Spaghetti Types Sweet Mama Kabocha TabIe King (Acorn) Table Ace (Acorn) 75 100 75 82 100 85 75 75

Dona (I) Early Girl (I) First Lady (I) Golden Girl (Heirloom) Golden Jubilee (I) Golden Sunray (Heirloom) Heatwave (D) Husky Gold (I) Lemon Boy (Yellow, I)

Turnip
Variety Royal Globe White Lady Days to Harvest 45 40

Sweetpotato
Variety Beauregard Centennial Jewel Vardaman 150 150 150 100

Days to Harvest Miracle Sweet (I) Paul Robeson (Heirloom) Porter Improved (I) Solar Fire (D) Solar Set (D) Sunmaster (D)

Roots & Greens

Just Right Purple Top White Globe Shogoin Tokyo Cross 50 50 42 35

Swiss Chard
Variety Bright Lights Bright Yellow Fordhook Giant Rhubarb Red 55 57 50 59

Watermelon
Variety Black Diamond Bush Sugar Baby Days to Harvest 90 75 85 84 85

Days to Harvest Sweet Tangerine (D) Taxi (Heirloom)

Paste
Classica (D) Golden Rave (I) Roma (D) 75 67 75

Crimson Sweet Crimson Tide Desert King (Yellow)

Tomato

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Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Polk County

Golden Crown Jubilee Legacy 800 Mickylee Minilee OrangeGlo Starbrite Tendersweet (Orange) Yellow Doll 80 95 85 85 68 95 85 85 68

Seedless
Tiffany 85

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