What started as a “lets grow a pumpkin patch” conversation last year, turned into a full on garden with the opportunity to grow and research several varieties of vegetables as well as offer some amazing produce to our customers! Here’s a run down of some of our favorites for our home gardeners, seasoned and beginners looking for varieties they may have not tried before!
Tomatoes
While not a surprise, tomatoes were a highly sought-after commodity. We grew many varieties, but four varieties stood out. Supersauce, has made its way to many home gardens, but it seems like it may still be a little known secret of how great it truly is! This sauce type tomato produces fruit much larger than Romas and has great flavor. Replacing your typical sauce type tomato with Supersauce would be a great move! Super Fantastic and Goliath were both great tomatoes for slicing, with Goliath producing before Super Fantastic. Both varieties were heavy producers, and had good flavor. We were blown away by how heavy Super Fantastic continued to produce well into fall. Lemon Boy, our popular yellow variety was a nice variety to see grow and have an option for low acidity with good production.
Cucumbers
The love of cucumbers is real. While we did not grow many varieties our best slicing and pickling cucumbers were quite evident. Telegraph cucumbers are an English type of cucumber and are a heavy producer of slender, delicious slicing cucumbers. We picked English cucumbers for many weeks, each one looking and tasting like those harvested several weeks before. Homemade Pickles, which has always been a favorite pickling variety, proved why we love it as well. Consistent production of pickling size cucumbers was always ready for us to harvest.
Beets & Pumpkins
We also grew two kinds of beets, the traditional red and gold. Customers told us the flavor of the gold was amazing! Purple, red and banana potatoes found a spot and were favorites of customers as well. And of course, our pumpkins were very productive, with our large 175+ pumpkin being our focal point of the season!
This coming year you can expect more great produce here at the store. We are working on bringing you more variety of all types of vegetables, but we are most excited for our pumpkin selection! You will be blown away by the selection of colors! Almost all of the varieties mentioned will be available in our greenhouses, grown from seed by us here at Parkview if you love to grow your own vegetables. So, here’s to planning our gardens, and planting a plentiful garden this season!
