A visit with Farmer Roger

Here are a few of my favorite crop varieties.

Draw a line to match them with the crop.

If you are stumped, I suggest you do a search, I don’t plan to provide a key. 

Black Cherry                                                        Apple

Blue Lake                                                              Beet

Chioggia                                                                Cherry tomato

German Butterball                                           Cucumber

Miniature White                                                Green bean

Purple Cherokee                                                Heirloom tomato

Zephyr                                                                   Lavender

Royal Velvet                                                       Potato

William’s Pride                                                   Pumpkin

Winter Luxury Pie                                             Summer squash

This is by no means an exhaustive list of my favorites. I didn’t even attempt to add winter squash; I would have to invent a half-dozen subcategories to feature enough of my favorite winter squashes.

Neither are these my only favorite varieties for these crops. On another day, I might favor a different variety, depending on mood and what we were planning for dinner.

There are a lot of other good choices, but if you were limited to a single variety of each crop you grew, the choices here would be an excellent place to start.

Sometimes you just have to have more than one. I love a tomato salad with 3 or 4 different color tomatoes. And you don’t have to sacrifice flavor to get the color.

I can’t really say which gives the greater satisfaction, the anticipation of a long-time favorite variety once again coming back into season, or the anticipation and discovery of a great variety new to me. I plan to keep on enjoying both.