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3 Recommended Variety List Garden Vegetables Varieties in bold type are especially recommended for freezing. Variety Snap Beans* Provider Earliness with good quality Top Crop 2nd Moderate quality & dependable Raider 3rd Heaviest Straight, round pods, long flowering period Roma (3rd) Straight, flat wide pods, good flavor Beets Boltardy Intermediate Does not go to seed, solid dark red, and round Spring Red Uniform round Cylindra Burpee Golden Intermediate Intermediate Long, cylindrical Round, golden instead of red flesh Broccoli Green Comet Large central heads Waltham 29 2nd early Medium central heads, many rals Coaster (Hybrid) Medium central heads, many rals Brussel Sprouts Jade Cross Uniform size sprouts, fair quality Catskill Moderate Variable size sprouts, excellent quality Cabbage Jersey Wakefield Marvel High quality, pointed head, heads burst early quality, round head all heads mature over a short period Hybrid Golden Acre quality, round head, long core Stonehead Firm, uniform head, long core Alaska 6467, variable Suitable for storage, numerous head types Storage Green, uniform Use transplants, will not mature from seed Red Meteor Stores well until early spring, high quality Chinese Hybrid Harvest early to avoid seed stalk emergence Carrot Super Nantes Small cylindrical, sweet, stores well Nantes Coreless Medium cylindrical, sweet, tender, stores well c Special Nantes 616 Hi Pac to High quality, cylindrical, blunt end Long tapered commercial type, high quality Spartan Bonus 1 Very good Long tapered commercial type, high quality

4 Variety Carrots (cont) Bonanza to Long tapered commercial type, high quality Gold King Very good Medium to large diameter, fair quality Royal Chantenay Very good Large diameter, large core, fair quality Cauliflower Super Snowball Very Light heads, do not get ricy or purple Perfected Snowball Very Medium heavy heads, fair leaf cover Snowmound Large dense heads, fair leaf cover, excellent quality Igloo Very Transplant because direct seeding may not mature Celery Utah Long stalks, dark green Chives Wild of Alaska Perennial, onion like flavor Cucumber* Victory Sets 1st 4 or 5 fruits without pollination, no male flowers produced (slicing) Gemini Very Sets 1st 4 or 5 fruits without pollination, no male flowers produced (slicing) Liberty Black spine, uniform, fairly blocky (pickler) Green Star White spine, uniform, blocky (pickler) Premier White spine, uniform, straight (pickler) Kale Green Curled Scotch Medium size plants Kohlrabi Purple Vienna Substitute for turnip where turnip root maggot control is impossible White Vienna Both keep well into winter in common storage Greens Spring Red Beet Use beet and tops when beets are one inch diameter Fordhook Giant Chard Vigorous, large leaf and petiole Bok Toy Mustard Distinct mustard flavor, goes to seed early Seven Top Turnip Use turnip and tops when root is one inch diameter Vates Collards Mild mustard flavor

5 Variety Lettuce Head Lettuce Cornell 456 Dense, small heads, will tipburn Ithaca Less likely to tipburn than others Great Lakes 659 Tolerates more cold than others Butter head Buttercrunch 2nd Excellent quality, withstands some frost, long season of use Looseleaf Salad Bowl Does not go to seed as early as others Grand Rapids Best adapted to low light intensities Onion Bunching Evergreen Bunching Bulb area enlarges more than others Sets Ebenezer Yellowish flesh, very mild, stores well White Portugal White flesh, mild Parsley Extra Curled Dwarf Suitable for garden or indoor culture Parsnip Hollow Crown May be left in garden if winter is mild Green Pea Sprite 10 day picking period trellising unnecessary Trumpet \e 10 day picking period trellising unnecessary 2nd 8 day picking trellising unnecessary / Mars Signet Freezonian 3rd 4th 2nd Continuous 8 day picking trellising unnecessary 10 day picking trellising unnecessary Continuous but only a few at a time must trellise Dwarf Gray Sugar Edible pod pea trellising unnecessary Sugar Snap Edible pod pea trellising desirable Potato AklO-11 Uniform size, uniform emergence Red Skin Alaska Red1 Uniform shape for market gardening Kennebec Space seed 7 to 9 inches or tubers will get too large and hollow Ak14-1> Very resistant to scabbing of tuber skin Alaska Frostless1 Denali1 to to Grows after others are killed by frost, no need for hilling Best quality for baking Snowchip1 to Baking and chipping quality Alaska 1141 to Tough white skin Green Mountain to Widely adapted, tender skin Bakeking to Uniform tuber shape

6 Variety Potatoes (cont) Russet Skin Highlat Allagash Butte to to to texture and flavor baked, fine p Uniform tuber shape, coarse p Long tuber shape, fine p Pumpkin* Cheyenne Bush May mature if transplanted through polyethylene film Radish Cherry Belle Burpee White Chinese White Champion 2nd Small top, round root, crisp Tender, mild and crisp Long large diameter, for winter storage Uniform roots, good quality Rhubarb MacDonald Cooks red, high quality Rutabaga York American Purple Top High quality, club root resistant High quality, not resistant Spinach Marathon Best quality, resists early bolting Squash (summer)* Elite Castle Pride Black Jack Caserta 2nd 2nd 2nd Dark green zucchini Yellow, crook neck Germinated well in cold soils More flavorful than zucchini type Squash (winter)* grow under clear polyethylene to Gold Nugget Faribo R Golden Hubbard Kindred Sweetmeat lengthen growing season Small fruit Boston marrow type Long fruit Turban tendency Short blue hubbard type Sweet Corn* growing season must be lengthened by growing with dear po/yethy/ene Polar Vee Very good Short cob, short plant Earliking Long cob, good quality Pathfinder Borderline Very good Excellent quality, small cob Royal Crest Borderline Very good Excellent quality Tomato* Sub Arctic 25 Tanana Poor ripe fruits Several fruits mature per plant Turnip Tokyo Cross Purple Top White Globe May bolt to seed Mild flavor

7 Variety Cucumber Uniflora D Gemini Attractive, long, European type Standard type, sets 5 fruit without pollination Challenger Surecrop 2nd 2nd Standard type, excellent quality Standard type, excellent quality Sweetcorn Polar Vee Earliking Super Sweet Sundance 2nd 3rd Small ears, good quality, plants 6 feet tall Medium ears, very good quality Very long ears, superb quality, plants 8 feet tall Medium ears, very good quality plants 8 feet tall Tomato Tropic Vendor Girl Ultra Girl Desirable for flush culture Short vine for low ceiling houses resistance to leaf mold Attractive fruit Small Fruits Variety Strawberry Matared1 Susitna1 Pioneer Skwentna1 Low Deep red fruits, excellent quality, winter hardy if mulched Medium red, holds shape when frozen, winter hardy if mulched Low quality, prolific plant maker, frequently survives without mulch Medium red, distinctive flavor, excellent frozen Raspberry Trent Indian Summer Excellent quality, mild flavor Excellent quality, very mild Gooseberry Champion Pixwell For coastal locations More winter hardy than Champion Currant Red Lake Stevens #9 Long Bunch Holland Very large fruits and seeds Large fruits, medium size seeds Small fruits and seeds

8 Tree Fruit Variety Apple Chinese Golden Sweet, pleasant, ripens in August Rescue Crisp, juicy, sprightly, red, early September Summerred Midfall Crisp, juicy, sprightly, red, September Crabapple Quality Small, yellow astringent, good preserving Jacques Firm, yellowish-red, remove calyx bake whole and 'Originated at the Agriculture Research Center, Palmer, Alaska *Crops for Production Through Polyfilm Bean, cucumber, pumpkin, summer squash, winter squash, sweet corn and tomato have a much better chance of maturing fruit when seeded under clear plastic than when planted in the open. As the seedlings grow, slits are made in the film just above the desired plants to allow them to develop above the plastic film. For very short growing season areas, the following varieties of crops are suggested: Provider bean, Victory and Liberty cucumber, Cheyenne Bush pumpkin, Elite summer squash, Gold Nugget and Faribo R winter squash, Polar Vee sweet corn and Tanana tomato.

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vegetables and fruits for alaska ill, %fsh COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA, USDA & SEA GRANT COOPERATING recommended variety list for SOUTHCENTRAL,s Alaska A-OOO31 Revised February