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Johnny's breed specific planting guides for staggering
seed savers fall planting guide
cucumber to try
brush trellis
container gardens
northern varietals:

Pumpkin - The pumpkin that I have found the easiest to grow where I live (northern Oxford County) is New England Pie Pumpkin. Disease and insect resistant and grows like a weed. Averages about 4 pumpkins per hill. They're fairly small pumpkins. One pumpkin will make a pie.

Winter Squash - The easiest non-pumpkin winter squash that I have ever grown is Sweet Dumpling. It also grows like a weed and is fairly bug resistant. It's a stuffing squash. I personally like it stuffed with rice and vegetables, microwave for 4 mins. Excellent. THE best stuffing type squash I have ever had.

Zucchini - Jackpot grows the best for me. It's vigourous, bush type, and parthenocarpic. Parthenocarpic means that every female blossom will produce fruit even if it doesn't get pollinated. It'll just be seedless without pollination. It does get powdery mildew real bad, though it doesn't affect the fruit any.

Yellow Crookneck Squash - Horn of Planty. Very prolific. Also parthenocarpic.

Green Beans - Improved Tendergreen grows the best for me.

Cucumbers - Lemon and Miss Pickler tie for the easiest, though they don't start producing fruit till the end of summer.

Sunflowers - Black Oilseed is extremely easy to grow. Large flowers and edible seeds. For perennial sunflowers, I recommend Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes. Pretty 2-3" flowers in the summer and edible tubers.

Carrots - Oxheart grows well in just about any soil. 3-4" wide and about 6" long. The taproot doesn't split when it hits a pebble. Second easiest is Red Cored Chantenay (sp?). Third easiest is Purple Dragon.

Bell Pepper - King of the North. I have found that peppers grow best when grown as a perennial. Grow each plant in a pot and bring inside in the winter. Loads of fruit the second year and every following year. If this isn't feasible, King of the North still produces adequately the first year when grown in the ground.

Herbs - Peppermint, Oregano (very invasive), Spearmint, Apple Mint, Dill, Chives, Catmint, Rosemary (take inside in the winter), Parsley, Marjoram, Monarda.

Tomatoes - By far the easiest and most dependable is Celebrity.

Scallions - Redbeard grows okay, but Egyptian Onions grow so much easier and make a passable scallion substitute.

Egyptian Onions - Egyptian Onions are very versatile and grow like a weed. They make topsets (bulbils) in the summer. Plant a topset in the late summer. Next spring the plant can be pulled up and used like scallions. If left in the ground, the plant will go dormant in August at which point the bulb can be pulled and used like a shallot. If that is left in the ground, the following summer, the plant will be mature and produce topsets that can be eaten as a garlic substitute, dried and ground to make a wonderful onion powder, or planted to start the cycle all over again.