Vegetable Varieties For Gardeners
The 2007 Selected list of Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners in NYS is now available via the Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners’ info page.
We are eager to recruit lots more vegetable gardening enthusiasts to submit their opinions at the Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners project website about the vegetable varieties they have grown.
As it stands now we have 1,304 registered vegetable gardeners, nearly 400 from 59 of the 62 NYS counties. Collectively NYS gardeners have submitted 640 of the more than 2,000 total vegetable varieties reviews we have collected. Our Ontario County takes the lead in the number of reviews posted at 129. Second place is a tight race among Tompkins County (60 reviews), Ulster County (57 reviews) and Oneida County (48 reviews). Tompkins County takes the lead in the number of registered gardeners at 48.
Click on the link below to find some additional figures on participation from each NYS county and from across North America (we have participants from all 50 states, D.C. and 6 Canadian provinces).
We do hope someday soon to generate our recommended varieties list from gardeners’ opinions shared on this site so please help us build some depth across NYS by spreading the word in your county.
Email Lori (ljb7@cornell.edu) if you have a core group of volunteers that are vegetable enthusiasts. I’d love to visit and recruit them to lead a special vegetable varieties effort of their design in their communities.
Lori Bushway | CALS, Campus News, GBLearning, Program Work Team