Q. What vegetable varieties are best to grow in Southern California?
A. That is a big order when you ask for favorite veggies but here are a few that we love growing here in Southern California. Since I do all of the Trials here at Community Gardens, I find a lot of gems that become mainstays here.
Tomatoes:
Big Beef is our main crop.
First Lady is a great tasting early tomato
Enchantment also wonderful flavor. It is a salad sauce tomato. Egg shaped
Orange Russian
Akers
Striped Marvel
First Born
Big Ugly Red
Cucumbers:
Burpless Tasty Green (my favorite)
Sweeter Yet—wonderful flavor
Squash
Already wrote about them in another post
Eggplant
Neon—-great taste and beautiful color
Plant gets at least 3 to 4 feet tall
Corn
I don’t grow it because of the corn ear worm
Lettuce
Nevada
Green Ice
Bronze Mignonette
Thai Green
Broccoli
Small Miracle(gives long period of side shoots)
Packman
Cauliflower
Wentworth(self wrap)
Cabbage
Savoy Express
Copenhagen
Regal Red
Kilosa (savoy)
Beets
Chioggia
Carrots
Sweet Sunshine
Artichokes
Violetta
Swiss Chard
Lucullus
That is it. These are my personal favorites.
Joanne
