My #1 Variety for Every Crop (36 Vegetables for Self-Sufficiency)

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  @HuwRichards · 10 months ago · pinned

  Every single variety in this video (and many more) is featured in our upcoming book How To Grow Food with full growing, spacing, harvest and kitchen-use guidance. If you want the complete crop-by-crop guide to Self-Sufficiency, preorder the book here: <a href="https://geni.us/HowToGrowFood">https://geni.us/HowToGrowFood</a> 🌿

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  @bpRH-x1h · 9 months ago

  Roots &amp; Tubers<br>1. Potatoes: Charlotte<br>2. Carrots: Resistafly<br>3. Beetroot: Boltardy<br>4. Summer radish: French breakfast<br>5. Winter radish: Daikon (mooli)<br>6. Parsnip: Tender &amp; true<br>7. Turnips: Tokyo cross<br>8. Bulb fennel: Rondo fennel<br><br>Alliums:<br>9. Onions: Sturon<br>10. Leaks: Bandit<br>11. Garlic: Gascon white <br>12. Elephant garlic<br><br>Fruiting veg<br>13. Courgette: Romanesco<br>14. Winter squash: Uchiki Kuri<br>15. Cucumber: Marketmore (outdoors), Passandra (wind tunnel or greenhouse)<br>16. Aubergine/Eggplant: Black beauty<br>17. Chilli: Padron<br>18. Cherry tomatoes: Gardener’s delight<br>19. Salad tomatoes: Tigerella<br>20. Tomande <br>21. Sweet corn: Earlybird<br><br>Leafy greens:<br>22. Spinach: Matador<br>23. Lettuce: Mixed pack (go wild!)<br>24. Chards: Bright lights / Rainbow<br><br>Legumes:<br>25. Garden peas: Ambassador<br>26. Sugar snap: Oregon sugar pod<br>27. Dwarf French beans: Annabel<br>28. Runner beans: Scarlet emperor<br>29. Broad beans Aquadulce Claudia or Field beans (vespa)<br><br>Brassicas:<br>30. Chinese cabbage: Yuki Chinese cabbage<br>31. Kale: Dwarf green curled<br>32. Cabbage: Greyhound<br>33. Cauliflower: All the year round<br>34. Broccoli: Claret F1<br>35. Pak Choi: Joi choi<br>36. Sprouts: Groninger<br><br>Live long and prosper!

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  @FolloweroftheWayTruthandLife · 10 months ago

  A tip is egyptian walking onions. Plant them ones and you have them forever.

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  @Buzzballistic · 5 months ago

  This was just what I needed! I spend so long in the shops looking at all the varieties &amp; it’s overwhelming. I’m trying to be more self sufficient with everything happening in the world right now, so reliability &amp; high yielding is really important for what I’m looking for, you’ve just spared me a year of trial &amp; error. This was honestly such a massive help. Thankyou so much.

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  @LostThePlot99 · 9 months ago

  As someone with two overflowing boxes of seed packets, and at least 25 different varieties of tomato, I get the logic of trying to simplify things. However, I will never become a person who sows only one variety of most things for two reasons. <br><br>First, I love variety. A summer garden full of different colour tomatoes, an autumn pumpkin patch with large, small, and oddly shaped fruit, what could be better?<br><br>Second, sometimes even your most reliable croppers have a bad year and underperform. For several years bloody butcher was far and away my fave tomato for flavour and abundance, but this year it was pants. If that was the only tomato in my garden I would have been stuffed.

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  @dizzniisan · 10 months ago

  love the miners lettuce hiding amongst the rhubarb

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  @monicadockerty55 · 10 months ago

  Loved this video. Wish more gardeners on social media shared this information.

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  @lyncurry2498 · 9 months ago

  Huw, I hope the goodness you put into the world through your videos are reflected back to you in 2026 as soaking rains, gentle breezes, warm sunshine, and abundant harvests. Happy New Year!

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  @Liz.Newton · 3 months ago (edited)

  <b>TIMESTAMPS</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA">00:00</a> &quot;If I could only grow one next year, what would the one variety of each crop be, to be as self-sufficient as possible?&quot;<br><br>(Focusing on yield, rather than doomsday or seed saving)<br><br><b>Roots and Tubers</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=47">00:47</a> Potatoes: Charlotte<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=88">01:28</a> Carrots: Resistafly F1<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=123">02:03</a> Beetroot/beet: Boltardy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=167">02:47</a> Summer radish: French Breakfast<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=189">03:09</a> Winter radish: Daikon (aka Mooli)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=225">03:45</a> Parsnip: Tender and True<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=261">04:21</a> Turnips: Tokyo Cross F1<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=280">04:40</a> Bulb fennel: Rondo F1<br><br><b>Alliums</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=312">05:12</a> Onions: Sturon<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=372">06:12</a> Leeks: Bandit<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=416">06:56</a> Garlic: Carcassonne Wight <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=428">07:08</a> Similar to garlic: Elephant Garlic<br><br><b>Fruiting Veg</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=453">07:33</a> Courgette/zucchini: Romanesco<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=476">07:56</a> Winter squash: Uchiki Kuri<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=504">08:24</a> Cucumber: Marketmore (outdoors) or Passandra F1 (polytunnel or greenhouse)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=575">09:35</a> Aubergine/eggplant: Black Beauty<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=587">09:47</a> Chillies: Padrón pepper<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=616">10:16</a> Cherry tomatoes: Gardener&apos;s Delight<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=633">10:33</a> Salad tomatoes: Tigerella<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=649">10:49</a> Beef steak tomatoes: Tomande F1<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=668">11:08</a> Sweetcorn: Earlibird F1<br><br><b>Leafy Greens</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=699">11:39</a> Spinach: Matador<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=723">12:03</a> Lettuce: Get a mixed pack<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=742">12:22</a> Chard: Bright Lights or Rainbow<br><br><b>Legumes</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=753">12:33</a> Garden peas: Ambassador<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=775">12:55</a> Mangetout/snow peas: Oregon Sugar Pod<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=794">13:14</a> Dwarf French beans: Annabel<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=813">13:33</a> Runner beans: Scarlet Emperor<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=843">14:03</a> Broad/fava beans: Aquadulce Claudia<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=849">14:09</a> Field beans: Vespa<br><br><b>Brassicas</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=877">14:37</a> Chinese cabbage: Yuki F1<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=896">14:56</a> Kale: Dwarf Green Curled<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=930">15:30</a> Cabbage: Greyhound<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=946">15:46</a> Cauliflower: All The Year Round<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=984">16:24</a> Broccoli: Claret F1 purple sprouting<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=1013">16:53</a> Pak choi: Joi Choi F1<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoAeJkCkRA&amp;t=1035">17:15</a> Sprouts: Groninger

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  @jaymiz234 · 10 months ago

  This is the video me and my new allotment have been waiting for. Great video pal. Let&apos;s go!!!!

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  @one_field · 10 months ago

  Looking forward to the book! I always try to limit myself to just one variety per species (not per crop; I grow 4 varieties of squash because there are 4 separate species of squash, and I can save true seed without worrying about cross pollination). The hardest category for me, and for you as I see in your choices, is tomato. I struggle to just pick one type! This year I caved and grew two: a slicer heirloom and a roma paste type heirloom. It definitely feels like a sacrifice when I look at see catalogs stuffed with so many tempting varieties, but when I&apos;m laying out the space in my garden and really not sure how to fit 20 large sweet potato plants, 40 sprawling winter squashes and a ton of sarpo potatoes, yams, canna, sunchokes, and still have room to trellis my beans, tomatoes, hot peppers, luffa and passion fruits, plus defend an area for aliums in full sun.... Well, it&apos;s a challenge to fit just one variety!

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  @davidbryan6484 · 10 months ago

  Really enjoyed this. Can you do the same for perennials?

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