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 1984
Variety Maturity Yield Comments Carrot (cont) Gold Pak to late Long tapered commercial type, high quality. Needs deep soil. Bonanza to late 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 late Transplant because direct seeding may not mature Celery Utah 52-70 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 late 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 Seven Top Turnip Distinct mustard flavor, goes to seed early Use turnip and tops when root is one inch diameter Vates Collards Mild mustard flavor
Variety Maturity Yield Comments Lettuce Head Lettuce Butterhead Looseleaf Salinas Cornell 456 Ithaca Great Lakes 659 Buttercrunch Salad Bowl Grand Rapids 2nd Tipburn resistant, firm head Dense, small heads, will tipburn Less likely to tipburn than most others Tolerates more cold than others Excellent quality, withstands some frost, long season of use Does not go to seed as early as others Best adapted to low light intensities Onion Bunching Sets Evergreen Bunching Ebenezer White Portugal Earliest Bulb area enlarges more than others Yellowish flesh, very mild, stores well 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 Spring Trumpet Venus Sparkle Dwarf Gray Sugar Alaska Freezonian Mars Patriot Progress No, 9 Green Arrow Sugar Snap Earliest Earliest & continuous & continuous to midseason to midseason 10 day picking period trellising unnecessary 10 day picking period trellising unnecessary Trellising unnecessary 8 day picking trellising unnecessary Edible pod pea trellising unnecessary Small pod, small pea, light color Continuous but only a few at a time must trellis 8 day picking trellising unnecessary Trellising desirable Trellising desirable Continuous trellising unnecessary Edible pod pea trellising desirable Potato AklO-11 Alaska Red1 (red skin) Kennebec Alasclear1 Superior Alaska Frostless1 Denali1 Snowchip1 Alaska 1141 to late to late to late to late Very heavy Uniform size Uniform shape for market gardening Space seed 7 to 9 inches tubers green quickly when exposed to light Very resistant to scabbing of tuber skin Processing quality, heavy yield when irrigated Grows after others are killed by frost, no need for hilling Baking and chipping quality Baking and chipping quality Tough white skin
Variety Maturity Yield Comments Potato (cont) Green Mountain Bakeking Highlat Butte Lemhi to late to late to late to late to late Very Widely adapted, tender skin, boiler Uniform tuber shape, good baker texture and flavor baked, fine fine plate Long tuber shape, fine plate Long tuber shape, fine plate, baker 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 Money Maker Castle Pride Black Jack Caserta 2nd 2nd 2nd Dark green zucchini Yellow, crookneck Yellow, crook neck Germinated well in cold soils More flavorful than zucchini type Squash (winter)* grow under clear polyethylene to lengthen growing season Gold Nugget Faribo R Golden Hubbard Kindred Sweetmeat Small fruit Boston marrow type Long fruit Turban tendency Short blue hubbard type Sweet Corn* growing season must be lengthened by growing with clear polyethylene 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
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