The Best Plants for Your Garden

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Growing a garden can give you the most delicious and nutritious fruits and vegetables around, but deciding what you want to plant can be hard. These are some of the things I think about when choosing the plants I want to grow in my garden. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]If you want to know more about what I'm growing in my garden this year, here's a full list. I've divided the plants into categories to make it a little easier to find what you're looking for.

Beans

  • Provider (bush, snap)
  • Rattlesnake Snap (pole, snap)
  • Calypso (bush, dry)
  • Good Mother Stallard (pole, dry)
  • Turkey Craw (pole, snap or dry)

Beets

  • Detroit Dark Red
  • Chiggia
  • Burpee's Golden

Broccoli

  • De Cicco

Cauliflower

  • Early Snowball

Cabbage

  • Prize Choy
  • Early Jersey Wakefield
  • I also plan to grow some fall varieties, but I haven't selected those yet. I'll add them here once I do.

Carrots

  • Dragon
  • Paris Market
  • St. Valery

Collards

  • Vates

Corn

  • Smoke Signals Popcorn

Cucumber

  • Parade

Ground Cherry

  • Aunt Molly's

Kale

  • Lacinato
  • Red Russian

Lettuce

  • Bronze Arrowhead
  • Crisp Mint
  • Forellenschluss
  • Green Oakleaf
  • Mantilia
  • Mizuna
  • Red Velvet
  • Sylvetta Arugula
  • Tango
  • Yugoslavian Red

Melon

  • Boule D'Or
  • Petit Gris de Rennes

Peas

  • Amish Snap
  • Champion of England (shell)

Peppers

  • Aji Crystal (hot)
  • Bull Nose Bell (Sweet)
  • Chocolate Beauty (Sweet)
  • Jimmy Nardello's (Sweet)
  • Martin's Carrot (hot)
  • Mustard Habanero (hot)
  • Thai Hot (...hot :D)

Radish

  • Cincinnati Market
  • Early Scarlet Globe
  • Watermelon

Summer Squash

  • Black Beauty Zucchini
  • Summer Crookneck

Swiss Chard

  • Five Color Silverbeet (Rainbow Chard)

Tomatillo

  • Green
  • Purple

Tomato (Cherry)

  • Black Cherry
  • Blondkopfchen
  • Green Grape
  • Mexico Midget

Tomato (Large)

  • Aunt Ruby's German Green
  • Gold Medal
  • Italian Heirloom
  • Jaune Flamme
  • Kellogg's Breakfast
  • Paul Robeson

Turnip

  • Purple Top White

Watermelon

  • Blacktail Mountain
  • Orangeglo

Winter Squash

  • Marina di Chioggia
  • Thelma Sanders
  • Winter Luxury Pumpkin

Herbs

  • Basil, Genovese
  • Basil, Thai
  • Borage
  • Catnip
  • Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Feverfew
  • English Lavender
  • Lemon Balm
  • Lovage
  • Greek Oregano
  • Rosemary
  • Sage
  • Spearmint
  • Thyme

Flowers

  • Beary's Giant Zinnia
  • Blue Boy Bachelor's Buttons
  • Butterfly Weed
  • Calendula mixture
  • Lupine
  • Globe Amaranth
  • Titan Sunflower (edible seeds)