Curious which vegetable varieties might grow best in your garden? Cornell researchers are, too. This site compiles information from your fellow gardeners to help you decide what to grow. Read more about this Citizen Science program. The information you supply can also influence breeding efforts and seed availability.
View ratings
Search (box at left and on every page) or browse to see detailed descriptions of more than 5,000 vegetable varieties and how other gardeners have rated many of them.
Rate varieties
Share your own opinions. Create a profile and let your fellow gardeners build on your experiences of what worked and what didn't in your garden.
If you've already created a profile, login before rating varieties.
Need Help?
If you are not familiar with using on-line forms, see How To Use This Site to preview the site's features before you begin.
Help promote Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners
Help us spread the word about this site. Use these promotional materials to recruit gardeners in your area to rate and review varieties.
- News release. Help spread the word through your newsletter, Master Gardener group, local media, bloggers, etc. Also available as a Word .doc.
- Bookmarks. This .pdf file has eight Vegetable Varieties For Gardeners bookmarks on a sheet. We print them out on card stock and cut them to size to provide people with an easy reminder of the the website address.
- Flier. This .pdf file has little more information for interested gardeners than the bookmark and can be printed on regular paper and in color or black and white.
- PowerPoint. This PowerPoint (.ppt file) provides a 5 minute introduction to the Vegetable Varieties For Gardeners project and website. Each slide is meant to be self explanatory so you can set it to automatically move from one slide to the next, have it loop if it is part of a display or print out each slide on a regular sheet of paper then laminate each and place in a binder for displays where no computer is available. Here's a .pdf version for easy printing.
- Poster. (Screen-sized .jpg file.) We have printed and laminated this colorful 2 by 3 foot poster for displays. If you are interested in a purchasing a copy please contact Lori Bushway (ljb7@cornell.edu). We can customize the lower right section with your organization's name, print the poster, laminate it and ship it to you for $30.
Comments or feedback? Email Craig Cramer: cdc25@cornell.edu
|
Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners on
'Real Dirt Radio'
Garden writer Ken Druse interviews Sr. Extension Associate Lori Bushway. Download mp3 podcast.
Vegetable
Varieties
Investigation
Vvi is a new intergenerational
citizen science project that
bridges the technology divide.
Through this real-world
opportunity, youth connect
with gardeners in their community, learn survey
skills, and explore biodiversity
through the whimsical world of
vegetable varieties.
Find out how you can get involved!
In the news
Vegetable Varieties website featured in Mother Earth News - Magazine's editors checked out your reviews before writing America’s Favorite Tomatoes in their Feb./Mar. issue.
See also: 'Amazon.com' for vegetables helps gardeners pick and choose their varieties in the Cornell Chronicle.
 Tasty tomatoes
An excerpt from Cornell student Jessica Schisano’s reflective journal from HORT 201, The Art of Horticulture
As a child I spent much time in my grandmother’s fruit and vegetable
garden in New Paltz, N.Y. The garden was always bursting with
color. The blood red tomato, the deep purple eggplant, and the yellow
squash made the garden a mosaic of life.
Every summer the garden would overflow with plump, sweet tomatoes in every
shape and color. My grandmother grew different varieties of tomatoes such
as beefstake, plum, cherry, and grape -- each beautiful in their own way.
The grape tomatoes were always my favorite because they were the smallest
of the tomatoes. They looked so delicate and fragile as they dangled from
their vines. Read more.
|
|
