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24 Comments
Now can you do a fruit list?
Here’s the full list (which I cross-referenced with the MIGardener website):
Cucumbers
Tendergreen Cucumber
National Pickling Cucumber
Muncher Cucumber
Poinsett 76 Cucumber
Ashley Cucumber
Squash
Zucchini Black Beauty
Italian Striped Zucchini
Long Pie Pumpkin
Bianco Di Trieste Zucchini
Butterneck Squash
Beans
Antigua Bean (Bush)
Provider Bean (Bush)
Blue Lake Bush Bean
Strike Bean (Bush)
Contender Bean (Bush)
Tomatoes
Champagne Bubbles Tomato
New Yorker Tomato
Rose De Burne Tomato
Opalka Tomato
Pineapple Tomato
Peppers
Emerald Giant Bell Pepper
California Wonder Bell Pepper
Fresno Chili Pepper
Tam Mild Jalapeño
Big Jim Pepper
Lettuce
Tango Leaf Lettuce
Pablo Lettuce
Hanson Improved Crisphead Lettuce
Ruby Red Leaf Lettuce
Bibb Butterhead Lettuce
A tomato I love that I never see mentioned anywhere is Sioux. It looks like just a plain red tomato but the flavor is exquisite.
Luke, it ended up being a 30 minute video anyway. 😉
When eating keto, the only low-carb squash is spaghetti.
Nice list..
How about a top heirlooms for us seed savers
Some I already had on my wishlist or had bought from MIG before, but you introduced several varieties I wasn't familiar with. I still consider myself a new gardener, so it was helpful! Rounded out the cart so I could get my order going. 🙂
Great video! I love that you included photos but I think the pineapple tomato pic was a ground cherry. Also it would be helpful if you put the names on the screen cause I don’t know how to spell some of these to look them up as easily.
I’m going to add one of my favorites in each category you mentioned. For cucumbers I’d like silver slicers a prolific white skinned variety. As for the green bean category I’m going with purple podded pole beans, an 8’ foot row fed me from the end of June through October. I ate most of them fresh, but froze several bags and gifted plenty as well, very prolific! Now for squash, white scallop squash does really well for me. It’s tasty and creamy. Tomatoes are the queen of the garden and my all time favorite is the pink brandywine! It’s a big beefsteak variety that for me has unbelievable flavor, though huge in size they aren’t the most prolific, but I love them! On to peppers, I personally not a fan of sweet peppers, but I do like hot peppers, not those insanely hot ones though. My pick is a somewhat hard heirloom to find called hot Portugal pepper. It makes excellent fermented hot sauce, if you can find them you really should try them. As for lettuce I have to go with nostalgia. The first vegetable seed I ever planted when I was 12 was black seeded Simpson and that was 52 years ago! It’s a beautiful light green leaf lettuce with a buttery soft texture. I plant it for both as a head lettuce and for cut and come again leaves. This was a great video Luke!
If you’re getting into gardening and starting to really plan your seed purchases, I can’t suggest MIgardener enough. He doesn’t talk himself up but he should, it is honorable that he has made a commitment to keep his seeds at 2$. Spend time looking around to find your favorite seeds, but I promise you, eventually MIgardener will be your primary seed provider each year.
I need to grow garbanzos. I only grow organic varieties, though. I've been a steadfast Territorial customer for over a decade…but they don't sell organic edamame any longer. I'll check out your seeds. They are definitely less expensive.
My favorite wax bean to grow is Golden Butterwax Bean. These plants are great producers, they can great, have a great flavor, never rusted, and are tender. I’ve grown contender and provider green beans and they are similar and can well. Pepperoncini peppers I grow yearly. They have a spicy flavor that reminds me of pizza which I use on as well as sandwiches. Great Lakes, red rouge and Bibb lettuce are my favorites. I tried growing iceberg lettuce few years and sow and pill bugs and slugs devastated the plants. Our daughter can grow iceberg lettuce with no problems and she lives an hour away. lol
I love this video and all the information. I think there's much more to the squash category and I feel the summer squashes and winter squashes should be 2 categories because there are many more delicious options in each.
We all ❤you, and of course we are all spring dreaming and about to inundate you with orders. lol Have you grown Amana Orange tomatoes? They are phenomenal! I also wrote down all of your cucumber suggestions, I haven't had luck with them till last year, but then the squirrels found them. It's always something. Can't wait to get growing again!😃
This was so helpful! Getting insight from a dedicated seed guy is priceless. Can’t wait to go shopping on your site!
I like Amish paste tomatoes and solar flare cherry tomatoes. We like the Delicata winter squash. I love purple pole beans they don't ripen all at once and produce till frost. I grow the purple pole beans in with my Astronomy Domine sweet corn.
I LOVE the Silver Slicer cucumber, it is prolific and I found it from Jess Sowards from her first garden tour years ago. It never fails, isn't bitter and I planted my first seeds on July 4th (when the seeds arrived) and got a great harvest that lasted until frost. It will always have a spot in my garden. Even when you miss one and the seeds are hard, scoop out the seeds and enjoy because it still isn't bitter. National pickling has never done well for me, they are always misshapen, tiny at the stem, and large at the bloom end, even with consent watering.
I’m surprised you stated that the California Bell is disease resistant. I had problems with bacterial wilt for two summers and I read that the California Bell might be the problem as compared to the other peppers I was growing. Once I eliminated them from my garden the bacterial wilt disappeared. I know it could have been a coincidence, but I love, love, love peppers and wouldn’t want to chance the return of bacterial wilt by trying them again. Maybe I had bad seeds (not yours), but I’m nervous about trying them.
I’m surprised you stated that the California Bell is disease resistant. I had problems with bacterial wilt for two summers and I read that the California Bell might be the problem as compared to the other peppers I was growing. Once I eliminated them from my garden the bacterial wilt disappeared. I know it could have been a coincidence, but I love, love, love peppers and wouldn’t want to chance the return of bacterial wilt by trying them again. Maybe I had bad seeds (not yours), but I’m nervous about trying them.
I almost didn’t watch this one but I’m glad I did. You gave such great information on why you like each of the varieties. But now I’ve gotta go seed shopping 😅
Thanks for sharing, I definitely want to try some of your top 5. I love buying seeds from your store. The price is amazing and the customer service is also amazing. I once received a couple of bad garlic heads, can happen from anywhere, but the store helped to make it right with what I felt was a smile. I also had another experience when I realized I missed ordering 2 more seed packets and would have had to pay for shipping and the person at the store had someone pull my order, which was about to be taken to be shipped and opened and added the seed packets for me. I was grateful and very impressed with the customer service.
Thanks for sharing, I definitely want to try some of your top 5. I love buying seeds from your store. The price is amazing and the customer service is also amazing. I once received a couple of bad garlic heads, can happen from anywhere, but the store helped to make it right with what I felt was a smile. I also had another experience when I realized I missed ordering 2 more seed packets and would have had to pay for shipping and the person at the store had someone pull my order, which was about to be taken to be shipped and opened and added the seed packets for me. I was grateful and very impressed with the customer service.
When you say the cucumbers are disease resistant, does that include disease spread by cucumber Beatles? I have a problem with them every year and therefore have problems getting almost any cucumbers to the point of harvest which makes me so sad because they are my husband and granddaughter’s favorite.
I love the Dr. Wyche tomato and the Ajvarski pepper.