Vegetable varieties for Grays Harbor/Pacific County
We have a short season, with low heat levels. Check for taste, disease resistant AND shortest number of days to maturity.
Artichoke Green Globe, Imperial Star
Asparagus Mary Washington, Jersey Knight,
UC 157
Beans Bush Tender Crop
Totem
Roma II-flat type pod, stringless, tender & very tasty
Royal Burgundy
Wax bush Goldenrod
Pole-Kentucky Wonder
Nickel
Purple Pod-easy to pick, young tender pods, or mature on vine for dried beans
*If you like small ones (3” or smaller”)
Vernandon, Dragon Tongue, Scarlet Emperor & Painted Lady
Beets Detroit Dark Red, Chiaggo
Broccoli - set out transplants in April or May –
Green Comet
Packman-55 days
Umpqua - 60 days
Brussels Sprouts-Plant in June for winter
Bubbles 88-92 days, Jade Cross “E”
Cabbage Parel”-50 days, Dynamo
Bok Choy
Chinese cabbages *China Express, Joi Chio,
Carrots Nantes Small round- Paramax, Thumbelina, Danvers ½ long
Cauliflower Snow Crown 50-60 days, Early Dawn SG
Chard Fordhook Giant, Bright Lights
Corn - not good for coastal, windy areas
Peaches & Cream-yellow & white, sweet & tender-eat right in the garden!
Ornamental corn-
Lil’ Indian- small, colorful ears, great for decorating, harvest when dry & will keep for years
Corn Broom- beautiful “broom like” tassel- birds love the seeds, used for fall decor
Cucumber Burpee Hybrid
Endive Green curled, Batavian
Garlic
Kale Winterbor, Vates, Winter Red
Lettuce Leaf lettuce Salad Bowl, Oaky Red Splash
Mesclun, Mild-plant in pots on deck or patio,
start harvesting when about 3”, shear with scissors for fresh salad every 5-6 days
Onions/chives Walla Walla if you like them small or go with green onions, Redwing
Parsley Triple Moss Curled, Dark Green Italian Plain
Peas Shelling: Corvallis, Novella II, Green Arrow
Edible pod: Oregon Sugar pod II, Sweet 100’s
Snap peas, bush: Sugar Daddy, Cascadia
Snap peas, pole: Sugar Snap
Peppers Golden Bell & California 300 -65 days
Potatoes Yukon Gold, Yellow Fin, Norgold Russet, Red Pontiac, All Blue
Radishes French Breakfast, Cherry Bell, Sakurajima Mammoth
Spinach Olympia
Squash *Straightneck (Butterstick), Sunburst (yellow scallop) Sundance (crookneck),
Tomatoes - cherry or grape work best or the small varieties Cherokee Purple-heirloom, indeterminate, medium, excellent flavor
Early Cascade-stake 70-75 days
Sweet million-stake 65-75 days
Golden Nugget-60 days
Honeybunch-grape –stake
Grape Juliet-grape, indeterminate, great for salads
Legend-68 days
Mortgage lifter
Northern Delight-65
Oregon Spring-75-80
Red Robin-determinate, large cherry type, great for hanging baskets
Roma VF
Santiam-65-70
Sun Sugar- indeterminate, extra sweet, gold cherry, eat like candy
Sweet Baby Girl
Sweet 100
Siletz-70-75
Taxi-65-70 days-bright yellow, very productive, even in 2008 with an ice- age summer, we harvested Taxis!
Yellow Pear-75-80 days
Zucchini *Gold Rush (yellow)), French White (greenish white), Spineless (light green)
Sources
Favorite varieties from Grays Harbor/Pacific County Master Gardeners
Some are from Coastal Gardening in the PNW, by Carla Albright, a MG, Tillamook Co.
*These varieties came from The Oregonian