New things:
Pepino Melons - require a longer season and more heat. waiting for them to ripen... plants are inconsistent in setting fruit.
Litchi Tomatoes - Nice thorns! Fruit looks like is should be something special with all the thorns but the taste is 'meh'. Not worth doing a gain.
Golden Berries - worth doing again. A cousin of ground cherries and much less prolific, but very worth doing again.
Purple Tomatillos - Worthwhile. Color is great. Taste is OK. Prolific but ends the season sooner than the weather does in Indiana.
3 additional kinds of yard long beans
three commercial 'asian' cucumber varieties -
Suyo - Wow. Awesome eating cucumbers. Like we remember from China.
Yamato - Smooth skin. Looks like a long western cucumber. Taste with skin is slightly waxy.
Tokiwa 'Tokyo Green' - long. speckled. Yellows quickly. Tend to be longer than Tokiwa. Taste with skin is slightly waxy. Greenery lasted longer in the season than the other two.
two new varieties of Okra -
Burmese (Rareseeds/Heirloom seeds) - awesome! prolific, early, even 12" pods are tender
Bowling Red (Rareseeds/Heirloom seeds) - Hard to tell the difference between these and burgundy
Several varieties of tomatoes
Beauty King - (Tomato Growers) - Beautiful! Taste is good. Fruit is a bit large - not quite as large as tomatoes adverised as beefsteak but large enough to struggle to produce unblemished fruit.
Brandywine black (planted 2020, Tomato Growers) - Very blue black ~ 2" tomatoes, prolific... but why? low taste, splits like crazy.
Great White, White Beauty (Tomato Growers) - Beefsteak = likes to split at both ends. Pale yellow - mild taste. In general I don't like Beefsteak because they are prone to splitting. (Rain is unpredictable in Indiana.) The taste on these was not spectacular
Snow White (Tomato Growers) - Cherry - Not prolific. Bigger than sunsugar. Taste is not great, but better than principe borghese.
Principe Borghese. Supposedly indeterminate, but really determinate. Split like crazy crazy.
Not new this year:
Opalka- taste is exceptional for any tomato! ANd they are paste tomatoes. Can be large and prone to blossom end rot some years. Some seed sources are not clean.
Sunsugar- taste is exceptional. Prolific. great for drying.
San Marzano - love these. Hang on the plant waiting to be picked. Prolific and better than normal paste tomatoes
peppers
Kale (Walking stick, thousandhead, russian red, jagallo nero)
Jagallo Nero is awesome flavor. Russian red is second. both worth planting agian. Others are palatable
Two new varieties of cabbage
Maybe we goth them in late - they struggled to make heads before shooting taller and making elevated heads.
