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This publication lists vegetable variety recommendations for the state of Georgia. Most of these varieties have been trialed and grown successfully in the state. These are not the only varieties that can grow well in Georgia but provide new gardeners with a starting point to increase their chances of success. Gardeners may need to search print catalogs and online to find the vegetables they are looking for, as local garden centers may not always carry the varieties listed here.

Asparagus

• Jersey Giant
• Jersey Knight
• Jersey Supreme
• Millennium
• Purple Passion
• UC 157 (or UC-157)
• Viking KB3

Beans

Bush (Snap) Beans

• Blue Lake 274
• Caprice
• Half-Runners (State, White, and Volunteer)
• Kentucky Runner
• Kentucky Wonder
• Provider
• PV857
• Top Crop (or Topcrop)

Romano Bush Flat Beans

• Forrester
• Roma II (or Roma 2)
• Velero

Pole Beans

• Blue Lake
• Dade
• Fortex
• Kentucky Blue

Lima Beans

• Early Thorogreen
• Henderson Bush
• Jackson Wonder (Speckled)

Pole Lima Beans

• Florida Speckled
• King of the Garden

Beets

• Boro
• Detroit Dark Red
• Merlin
• Red Ace
• Ruby Queen

Broccoli

• Eastern Crown
• Emerald Crown
• Green Magic
• Marathon
• Packman
• Premium Crop

Cabbage

Standard Cabbage

• Bravo
• Bronco
• Cheers
• Early Thunder
• Megaton
• Quick Start
• Thunderhead
• Cairo (red cabbage)
• Red Jewel (red cabbage)
• Blue Vantage (red cabbage)
• Ruby Ball (red cabbage)

Chinese Cabbage

• Bilko
• Blues
• Emiko
• Merlot (red head)
• Rubicon

Cantaloupe

• Ambrosia
• Athena
• Goddess
• Sugar Rush

Carrot

• Barracuda
• Bolero
• Goldfinger
• Hercules
• Moonraker
• Royal Chantenay
• Scarlet Nantes
• Thumbelina (small)

Cauliflower

• Absolute
• Amazing
• Cheddar (orange color)
• Early Snowball
• Graffiti (purple color)
• Imperial
• Snow Crown
• Symphony
• White Magic

Collards

• Blue Max
• Georgia Southern
• Hi-Crop
  
• Top Bunch

Corn

Corn varieties are distinguished by their genetic type, which is indicated in the parentheses next to the cultivar name:
su = sugary
se = sugar enhanced
sh2 = super sweet
Triple sweet, Sy, and shA have a combination of gene types

Yellow Corn

• Bodacious (se)
• Golden Queen (su)
• Honey Select (Triple sweet hybrid)
• Mirai 131Y (Triple sweet hybrid)
• Seneca (su)
• Candice (sh2)
• Sugar Buns (se)

White Corn

• Avalon (Triple sweet)
• Glacial (sh2)
• How Sweet It Is (sh2)
  
• Xtra-Tender (sh2)
• Seneca Sensation (se)
• Silver King (se)
• Silver Princess (se)
• Silver Queen (su)
• Nicole (shA)

Bicolor Corn

• Ambrosia (se)
• American Dream (sh2)
• Butter & Sugar (su)
• Honey ’n Pearl (se)
• Mirai 301 (Triple sweet)
• Peaches & Cream (se)
• Serendipity (Triple sweet hybrid)
• Sweet Breed Chorus (also called Sweet Chorus; multi-gene variety)
• Montauk (Sy)
• Rosie (shA)
• Providence (Triple sweet hybrid)
• Obsession (sh2)
• Trinity (se)

Cucumber

Slicing Cucumbers

Bush Cucumbers

• Salad Bush Hybrid
• Bush Crop
• Fanfare
• Patio Snacker
• Spacemaster 80

Standard Cucumbers

• Bristol
• Burpless Hybrid
• Dasher II
• Diva
• Marketmore
• Straight Eight
• Sweet Slice
• SV4719CS

Long European / Japanese Cucumbers

• Taurus
• Sweet Success
• Summer Dance Hybrid
• Tasty Green
• Early Spring Burpless Hybrid
• Poniente

Pickling Cucumbers

• Bush Pickle
• Calypso
• County Fair Improved Hybrid

Eggplant

White Eggplant

• Ghostbuster
• Santana
• Snowy
• Casper
• Gretel

Purple Eggplant

• Black Beauty
• Classic
• Epic
• Hansel
• Patio Baby
• Thanos

Kale

• Black Magic (Tuscan Kale)
• Blue Armor
• Blue Knight
• Darkibor
• Rainbow Candy Crush
• Vates

Lettuce

Romaine Lettuce

• Chalupa
• Green Towers
• Super Jericho
• Sunland

Bibb Lettuce

• Buttercrunch
• Fire and Ice
• Little Gem
• Summer Bibb

Loose Leaf Lettuce

• Black Seeded Simpson
• Majesty
• Multigreen 3
• Red Sails
• Red Salad Bowl
• Royal Oakleaf
• Ruby

Mustard Greens

• Florida Broadleaf
• Red Giant
• Savannah (or Savanna)
• Southern Giant Curled

Okra

• Annie Oakley II (or Annie Oakley 2)
• Burgundy
• Cajun Delight
• Clemson Spineless
• Emerald Green
• Jambalaya

Onion

Intermediate Day Onions

• Cabernet (red)
• Candy (white)
• Sierra Blanca (white)
• Super Star (white)

Short Day Onions

• Red Creole
• Texas Early White
• Vidora (yellow)
• Yellow Granex

Pea

Garden Peas (English)

• Lincoln
• Jackson Wonder
• Little Marvel
• Green Arrow
• Early Frosty

Edible-Pod Peas

• Sugar Daddy
• Snow Pea
• Sugar Snap
• Royal Snap

Southern Peas

Blackeyed Peas

• California #5 (or California No. 5)

Pinkeyed Peas

• Purple Hull FVR

Cream Peas

• Texas Cream

Crowder Peas

• Mississippi Silver
• Zipper Cream

Snow Peas

• Avalanche
• Oregon Sugar Pod
• Royal Snow

Pepper

Bell Peppers

• Aristotle
• Antebellum
• Autry
• Big Bertha (extra long)
• Green Machine
• Paladin
• Karisma
• Flavorburst
• King Arthur

Hot Peppers

Cayenne Peppers

• Red Ember
• Red Rocket
• Cayenne Long Slim
• Bottle Rocket
• Golden Cayenne

Habanero Peppers

• Helios
• Orange Habanero
• Brown Flamethrower

Jalapeño Peppers

• Orizaba
• Mucho Nacho
• Pantera
• Jedi
• Bambino

Specialty Hot Peppers

• Mad Hatter
• Padron
• Capperino
• Time Bomb
• Scorpio (hot banana)
• Ghost Pepper
• Carolina Reaper (Caution: extremely hot)

Sweet Longhorn Peppers

• Carmen
• Giant Marconi
• Cortes
• Cornitos

Banana Peppers

• Goddess
• Sweet Banana
• Sweet Sunset

Potato

Irish Potatoes

• Norchip
• Red LaSoda
• Red Pontiac
• Sunrise Gold
• White (Kennebec, Atlantic, Yukon Gold)

Sweet Potatoes

• Beauregard
• Bonita
• Centennial
• Covington
• Georgia Jet
• Purple Majesty
• Red Jewel
• Yellow Jersey

Pumpkin

Giant Pumpkins

• Big Moose
• Dill’s Atlantic
• Early Giant Hybrid
• Prize Winner

Large Pumpkins

• Aladdin
• Gold Rush
• Magic Lantern
• Polar Bear

Small Pumpkins

• Autumn Gold
• Darling
• Gumdrop
• Jack of All Trades
• Jack O’ Lantern
• Racer Plus PMR

Tiny Pumpkins

• Baby Bear
• Bumpkin
• Jack Be Little
• Jill Be Little
• Lil’ Ironsides
• Wee-B-Little

Pie-Type Pumpkins

• Cinnamon Girl
• Small Sugar
• Sugar Baby

Radish

• Champion
• Cherry Belle
• Donato
• Purple Heart
• Red Meat
• Rover
• Early Scarlet Globe

Spinach

• Lizard
• Melody
• Seaside
• Space
• Winter Bloomsdale

Squash

Summer Squash

• Dunja
• Eight Ball
• Elite
• Green Machine
• Kefren
• Oblong, green, grey, or gold zucchini
• Patty Pan
• Safari
• White Scallop
• Yellow Crooked Neck
• Yellow Straight Neck

Winter Squash

• Acorn
• Blue Hubbard
• Boston Marrow
• Buttercup Bonbon
• Butternut
• Cushow
• Spaghetti Squash

Tomato

Determinate Tomatoes (Bush Type)

• Amelia
• BHN 444
• BHN 640
• Bush Beefsteak
• Celebrity
• Early Girl
• Grand Marshall
• Homestead
• Mountain Fresh
• Mountain Pride
• Mountain Spring
• Red Bounty
• Roma
• Rutgers
• San Marzano

Indeterminate Tomatoes

• Beefmaster
• Better Boy
• Big Beef
• Big Boy
• Bodacious Hybrid
• Early Pick
• Medium Rare
• Parks Whopper
• Supersauce
• Super Sioux

Cherry/Grape Tomatoes

• Braveheart
• Candyland Red
• Gold Nugget
• Jolly
• Juliet
• Nature’s Bites
• Sungold
• Super Sweet 100
• Sweet Baby Girl

Heirloom Tomatoes

• Brandywine
• Cherokee Purple
• German
• Missouri Pink Love Apple
• Mr. Stripey
• Nepal
• Old German
• Striped German

Turnip

• Hakurei
• Purple Top
• Royal Crown

Watermelon

Large Watermelons

• Estrella
• Georgia Rattlesnake
• Mardi Gras
• Royal Majesty
• Sangria

Small Watermelons

• Early Moonbeam
• Mini Love
• Mini Piccolo
• Solitaire

Round Watermelons

• Baby Doll
• Crimson Sweet
• Harvest Moon
• Ice Box
• Imagination
• Jade Star
• Sugar Baby
• Sweetie Pie

Seedless Watermelons

• Cracker Jack
• Dark Knight
• Powerhouse
• Sweet Dawn
• Sweet Gem

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Status and Revision History
In Review on Feb 21, 2025
Published on Feb 25, 2025