lauribob's Plant List

A note from lauribob

I am not interested in selling or trading live plants. I do save seeds once in awhile and would be willing to trade those.

Plant	Status	Notes
Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Early Wonder')	Will Vegetables	50 days. Heirloom. Sometimes sold as Early Wonder Tall Top because they have great greens. We've grown them several times with good results. 2022: Planted May 9. Doing well this year. Cool, wet spring. We ended up with a bumper crop of beets this year. These do have great greens. The beets were kind of small, but there were so many we didn't care. 2021: They got lost in the weeds. There's probably some out there. 2019: Love those greens, and the beets are good too.
Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Golden')	Prev Vegetables	55 days. Heirloom. Gold-fleshed. 2017: We tried these one year to keep from staining the chopping block. We both thought they were rather tasteless.
Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Red Cloud')	Prev Vegetables	50-60 days. Hybrid. 2020: They came up OK, but we ended up with a pretty sparse row of beets. They never amounted to much - looked like tiny carrots. We were having gopher problems that year.
Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Ruby Queen')	Will Vegetables	60 days. Heirloom Love the name! 2022: Planted May 9. Both doing well. Two rows of beets, two varieties. They both did well and produced a bumper crop of small beets. They were really good. 2021: Planted these along with another variety. They all got lost in the weeds. 2013: We had tons of beets this year! Yum.
Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla 'Bright Lights')	Prev Vegetables	50 days. OP. A tasty swiss chard with brightly colored stems of yellow, orange, and pink. Very jolly. We have grown these with good success many years. 2022: Planted May 9. Haven't grown these for a few years. They were the first of the cold crops to come up. Lots of lush, leafy greens in this cool, wet spring. I'm embarrassed to say that we had so much spinach, in addition to a huge crop of beet greens, that we didn't even cook any of these up. We both like the other greens better. 2014: We had a nice crop of these this year.
Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla 'Orange Fantasia')	Prev Vegetables	59 days. OP. These are lovely shades of orange and yellow. 2013: These did well. We got quite a bit of chard and it was tasty.
Betony (Betonica officinalis subsp. officinalis 'Hummelo')	Have Veggie Garden Perennials Z5	Veg: In with the daylilies Z5: Along the circle
Mountain Fleece (Bistorta amplexicaulis 'Firetail')	Have Front Front Bank	Mine are much paler than other photos show - a soft pink. I did buy this as Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail', however. Persicaria has since changed to Bistorta, but the cultivar should be the same. Not sure why mine is so pale, as it is at Deb's house. Could be a mismarked 'Pink Elephant' or 'Rosea'. 2019: I had to thin these out in the front garden so the sprinkler could get past them. I moved a bunch to the front bank next to the Bishop's Weed.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea 'Excalibur')	Will Vegetables	78 Days, Hybrid A green cabbage with medium to large heads, good for sauerkraut and coleslaw. 2020: Got 4 plants from '19 seed started inside. They did OK, could have used some more weeding so they didn't get very big, and were buggy. We didn't pick most of the cabbage this year. 2019: Tried starting inside again and did get some germination, but they didn't make it. 2018: Tried to start inside, but it was a fail. I direct seeded them later and got some really nice big cabbages.
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Gypsy')	Will Vegetables	57 days. Hybrid I think I've given up on broccoli. It doesn't do well for me most years - it gets hot too fast and it bolts. There was one year that these produced really well, so if I do try it again, it will be this one. 2015: Can't remember what the weather was like this year, but we were still harvesting broccoli well into the heat of summer!
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Miranda')	Prev Vegetables	90 days. 2020: Grew some of these. They were pretty plants, but I wasn't impressed overall. They were supposed to form a main head and then side shoots. I didn't get any real heads, but instead, small to medium clusters of what I would call side shoots. There was never enough to make a meal out of it. I gnawed on some raw, it tasted like broccoli.
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Purple Peacock')	Prev Vegetables	70 days. OP. This is a cross between kale and broccoli. 2017: These were really pretty plants, but I don't remember them as being impressive to eat. I don't remember them forming much of a head and I'm not a big fan of kale.
Red Cabbage (Brassica oleracea 'Ruby Perfection')	Will Vegetables	75 days. Hybrid 3# Deep purple heads. 2020: Started inside and got 4 starts on the second try. Planted out in mid May, but didn't weed and all the cabbage was small and buggy. 2013: I direct planted these really late, so they didn't get very big. They were really pretty little things though. We harvested a few for salad.
Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis 'Cheddar')	Will Vegetables	60-70 days. Hybrid A bright orange cauliflower. I had really nice ones one year from purchased starts several years ago. They were so festive in salads. 2012: They came up, but I didn't get anything off them. Tiny things. No garden time. 2010: They came up and did pretty well. We got a few.
Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis 'Early Snowball')	Prev Vegetables	55 days. Heirloom. Snowy white heads 5-6" across. 2016: These grew really well and we had nice big heads. I was so pumped to have some home-grown cauliflower. They were so infested with earwigs that I couldn't even cook them. Greg hosed them off and picked them off before he brought them in the house to soak in salt water. A million more came out of them. (I didn't know this at the time.) When I started to cut them up, they just came boiling out and I threw them all right out the door. Nope, just nope.
Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis 'Graffiti')	Will Vegetables	70-80 days. Hybrid Beautiful bright purple heads. I grew these a couple years from purchased starts and they did pretty well. 2010: From seed. They did OK and we got some from smallish plants. Not a big harvest, but they brighten up a salad.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata 'Early Golden Acre')	Will Vegetables	55 days. Heirloom. 'A very early round headed green cabbage with ball shaped heads up to 5 pounds. Short stemmed with few outer leaves, and excellent flavor.' 2020: My seeds were just called 'Golden Acre' but I'm assuming they are this one because they were touted as "earliest". Started in the gh. First go around was no germ. 2nd time I ended up with 4 nice starts. Planted out sometime in mid-late may. They didn't get much weeding and didn't get much size to them as a result. They were also buggy. We didn't harvest much.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata 'Red Express')	Will Vegetables	60 days. Open pollinated. 2020: 4 plants from '19 seed, started inside. Cabbage was neglected this year and so was small and buggy. We didn't harvest much. 2019: Tried to start in the GH. I only ended up with 1 seedling, but did have decent germination. The one looks real healthy and is right there with the store bought starts. I think I should maybe just direct seed into the garden next year and see how that goes.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata 'Savoy King')	Will Vegetables	2019 Grew from starts. They produced well and got to a good size. Tasty cabbage for sourkraut.
Brussels Sprouts (Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera 'Long Island Improved')	Prev Vegetables	85 days. Heirloom. 2016: Direct seeded, these came up and they were doing well. It's a fairly long-season crop. Before we could harvest any of them, they were so aphid infested that I yarded them out. Probably won't try them again. 2011: They didn't come up at all.