At today's Harvest Market, we put out a quiz asking people to try to match vegetable variety names with the type of vegetable. We grow all of these and they are all open-pollinated and most are heirloom/heritage varieties.
Our winner got 9 of the 12 correct! Congratulations Sophie! Sophie will get a 2012 GFF T-shirt once the order is made in January/February.
Napolean Sweet d- Pepper
Grandpa Admires h- Lettuce
Costata Romanesco l- Zucchini
St Valery's j- Carrot
Marina di Chioggia i- Winter Squash
Black Valentine c- Green Bean
Pintung Long b- Eggplant
Sweet Genovese e- Basil
Helios k- Radish
Boothby's Blonde a- Cucumber
Gigante f- Kohlrabi
Nebraska Wedding g- Tomato
The most common correct answer was Sweet Genovese Basil, most likely because it is still an industry standard variety. Next most common correct answers were Napolean Sweet Pepper and Nebraska Wedding Tomato. Also not a surprise since heirloom varieties are better known for these crops.
Somehow, Black Valentine Green Beans managed to evade everyone who participated. We'll work to remedy that. The great thing about Black Valentine is that the plants can be very productive with beans that are a little 'crisper' than other varieties. But, what makes them standout is the dual nature of these beans. You can eat them as snap (green) beans or you can let the pods dry and use them as a dry bean. We like that because we can grow more of these and when the green beans overwhelm the amount of time we have to pick, we can let them go and still get a useful crop out of them. With other green beans, you could save the pods for seed, so not a complete loss, but they are not so good if you want to eat them.
Thank you to all who attended today's harvest market - we appreciate the efforts you made to come visit us!
Rob & Tammy
Our winner got 9 of the 12 correct! Congratulations Sophie! Sophie will get a 2012 GFF T-shirt once the order is made in January/February.
Napolean Sweet d- Pepper
Grandpa Admires h- Lettuce
Costata Romanesco l- Zucchini
St Valery's j- Carrot
Marina di Chioggia i- Winter Squash
Black Valentine c- Green Bean
Pintung Long b- Eggplant
Sweet Genovese e- Basil
Helios k- Radish
Boothby's Blonde a- Cucumber
Gigante f- Kohlrabi
Nebraska Wedding g- Tomato
The most common correct answer was Sweet Genovese Basil, most likely because it is still an industry standard variety. Next most common correct answers were Napolean Sweet Pepper and Nebraska Wedding Tomato. Also not a surprise since heirloom varieties are better known for these crops.
Somehow, Black Valentine Green Beans managed to evade everyone who participated. We'll work to remedy that. The great thing about Black Valentine is that the plants can be very productive with beans that are a little 'crisper' than other varieties. But, what makes them standout is the dual nature of these beans. You can eat them as snap (green) beans or you can let the pods dry and use them as a dry bean. We like that because we can grow more of these and when the green beans overwhelm the amount of time we have to pick, we can let them go and still get a useful crop out of them. With other green beans, you could save the pods for seed, so not a complete loss, but they are not so good if you want to eat them.
Thank you to all who attended today's harvest market - we appreciate the efforts you made to come visit us!
Rob & Tammy
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