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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Veggie Top Ten

I have to come up with a bunch of Top Ten lists for a newspaper feature for work, so I figured I might as well test run them here.

Top Ten Seed Catalogs
1. Seed Savers Exchange
2. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
3. Johnny's Selected Seeds
4. Wild Garden Seed
5. Gourmet Seed International
6. Kitazawa Seed
6.
Evergreen Seeds
7. Totally Tomatoes
8.
Thompson & Morgan
9. Seeds of Italy
10.
Burpee

Top Ten Tomato Varieties
1. Chocolate Stripes
2. Big Yellow Zebra
3. Berkeley Tie-Dye
4. Sungold (Cherry)
5. Sugary (Cherry)
6. Green Sausage
7. Northern Lights
8.Cherokee Purple
9. Striped Roman
10. Striped Red Furry Hog

Top Ten Vegetable Varieties (except Tomatoes)
1.
Kazakh Melon
2. Flying Saucer Scallop Squash
3. Mexican Sour Gherkin
4. Siberian Garlic
5. Christmas Lima Bean
6. Red Noodle Chinese Long Bean
7.
Shimonita Negi Onion
8.
Flashy Butter Oak Lettuce
9. Chioggia Beets
10.
Magic Molly Potato

Top Ten Herbs
1. Lemon Verbena
2. Chocolate Mint
3.
Pinewood Thyme
4. Mexican Tarragon
5. Pesto Perpetuo Basil
6. Thai Basil
7. Lemon Thyme
8.
Orange Mint
9. Lemon Myrtle
10.
Golden Sage

Ultimately, all my favorites are things that I want to eat or cook with...Maybe there will be a Recipe Top Ten coming up soon!

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