True Red Cranberry is highly climate sensitive. It yields next to nothing here in the deep south. I got the same results for Uncle Walts Vermont Cranberry.
It is fun to grow new varieties and see just how much they can produce.
Here is a list of varieties I have grown that have reasonable production in the deep south.
Alabama #1 - Very nematode tolerant, decent production, good canner
Blue Marbut - excellent production and an exceptional canning bean
Black Seeded Blue Lake - another good all around pole bean
Dade - an old commercial bean that is well adapted and productive, but I don't prefer the flavor
Emerite - Exceptionally good sweet flavor and decent canning bean
Fortex - exceptionally good in bean for production and decent flavor, a bit soft as a canner, great for fresh use
Grandma Roberts (black, brown, and white tricolor) pole bean - Good production, great flavor, but has strings.
Grandma Roberts Purple pole bean - Best of the purple beans for cool soil germination, production, and heat tolerance
Jeminez - a good eating bean but a bit coarse and not exceptional as a canner
Kilgore Black Shelling bean - good production, decent flavor, a good dual purpose bean for snaps and shellies
Leona Dillon creaseback - oddest shaped string bean I've grown, the beans are actually bent in the middle, very productive
Louisiana Purple - great production, but imo, so-so flavor
Meraviglia Venizia (white seeded) - good production for a yellow bean, flavor good, not a good canner, excellent in bean salad
Musica - best of the roma type pole beans I've grown, excellent production, excellent canner
Purple King - another great producer but so-so flavor
Rattlesnake - the hands down most heat tolerant bean, great production, decent flavor, decent canner
NT Half Runner - an excellent variety from Bill Best, productive, great flavor, good canner
Rose - good production, decent flavor, good as a shelly, one of the "frosted" beans
Striped Bunch - the best Dilly bean I've grown, a true 1/2 runner
Striped Hull Greasy Cutshort - the best flavored bean I've grown, but not very productive
Super Marconi - Highly productive, but imo, flavor is too intense, not a good canner
Tobacco Worm - an outstandingly good bean flavorwise, but not highly productive
Turkey Craw - Best quad purpose bean available, can be snapped, shelled, dried, and made into leather britches.
DarJones
|