Some Recommended Vegetable Varieties for Fall and Winter Planting in the Desert

Here is a recommended vegetable variety list for the Mojave Desert. Some varieties perform better than others under desert conditions. These are vegetables to be planted in in the fall months from seed and in some cases transplants. Onions transplants of course are planted in the spring so this is by seed.

Recommended varieties of vegetables for fall months. Please add to this list in your comments if you have actually grown a variety you liked, not one you read about and it was under desert conditions. Thanks!

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Asian Greens

Tatsoi

Bak Choy

Pac Choy

Beans, bush

Contender

Top Crop

Blue Lake

Venture

Royalty Purple Pod

Beans, pole

Kentucky Wonder

Blue Lake

Kentucky Lake

Beets - don’t forget to use the beet leaves

Detroit Dark Red

Detroit Supreme

Golden

Chioggia

Bull’s Blood

Red Ace

Warrior

Red Cloud

Broccoli

Atlantic

Pacman

Green Comet

Green Goliath

Premium Crop

Cauliflower

Amazing

Carrots

Scarlet Nantes

Parisien

Sweetness

Tendersweet

Kuroda

Chard

Pink Flamingo

Rainbow

Barese

Greens

Vaites (collards)

Kale

Nero of Toscano (Dinosaur)

Tronchuda

Reo Russian

Onions, bulbs

Candy

Big Daddy

Red Candy Apple

Texas Super Sweet

Sterling

Onions, bunching

Tokyo Long White

Onion, specialty

Red of Florence

Tropea Longa

Bianca di Maggio

Peas, Bush

Lincoln

Peas, sugar snap

Cascadia

Oregon Sugar Pod

Sugar Snap

Radishes

Easter Egg

French Breakfast

Purple Run

White Icicle

Cherry Belle

Chinese Watermelon

Spinach

Bloomsdale

Melody

Olympia