Most Popular Vegetable Varieties:
Curious which vegetable varieties might grow best in your garden? Cornell researchers are, too. They have developed an Internet site that compiles information from your fellow gardeners to help you decide what to try. You can participate in this Citizen Science program by sharing your own opinions about the vegetable varieties that you prefer. The information you supply can also influence breeding efforts and seed availability. Over 1,500 gardeners have shared information about more than 4,000 vegetable varieties and you can see how other gardeners have rated many of them.
Currently the most popular vegetable is a tomato – and the most popular tomato with over 40 people recommending it is ‘Sun Gold’. It’s an early-season, hybrid, cherry tomato. Grows on 3- to 5-foot, indeterminate vines that bear sweet, 1 3/8-inch by 7/8-inch, oval to oblong, firm, meaty, clustered, golden-orange fruit with few seeds and free of cracking. For greenhouse or field production. Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus and fusarium race 1. Days to maturity 57 to 60 days. Sun Gold received 4.5 stars out of 5 for taste; 4.7 stars for yield; 4.7 stars for ease or reliability with 4.5 stars rating overall.
The next most popular tomato was ‘Brandywine’. It’s an Open-pollinated. Main season, heirloom, standard tomato with 10- to 24-ounce, deeply lobed fruit with deep pink skin and red flesh. Indeterminate, potato-leaved plants. Days to maturity 80 to 90 days. Brandywine received 4.4 stars out of 5 for taste; 2.9 stars for yield; 3.4 stars for ease or reliability with 3.7 stars rating overall.
Source: Cornell University vegetable variety site: http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/index.php