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* Ordoño
* Ordoño
== Squash ==
== Squash ==
=== Summer ===
* Cocozelle Zucchini
* Cocozelle Zucchini
* Costata Romanesco
* Costata Romanesco
* Cushaw Green-Striped
* Dark Star Zucchini
* Dark Star Zucchini
* Iran
* Homs Kousa<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/homs-kousa-summer-squash?_pos=3&_sid=c61db3891&_ss=r 'Homs Kousa' Summer Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>
* Jumbo Pink Banana
* Lebanese Light Green
* Lebanese Light Green
=== Summer ===
* Maycock<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/tall-white-maycock-squash?variant=42054897106997 Maycock (Tall White Selection) Squash Landrace – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>
* Maycock<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/tall-white-maycock-squash?variant=42054897106997 Maycock (Tall White Selection) Squash Landrace – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>
* Homs Kousa<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/homs-kousa-summer-squash?_pos=3&_sid=c61db3891&_ss=r 'Homs Kousa' Summer Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>


=== Winter ===
=== Winter ===
* Cushaw Green-Striped
* Iran
* Jumbo Pink Banana
* Khersonkaya<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/chersonkaya-squash?_pos=1&_sid=f5a3b1e8f&_ss=r 'Khersonkaya' Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>
* Khersonkaya<ref>[https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/chersonkaya-squash?_pos=1&_sid=f5a3b1e8f&_ss=r 'Khersonkaya' Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store]</ref>


Revision as of 00:41, 17 March 2024

Here is a list mostly compiled by the University of California. "The list is not exhaustive.... For additional possibilities, consult seed companies or nurseries that specialize in plants suitable for desert or dry climate areas."[1]

Alliums

Garlic

  • Creole (good for southern USA)
  • Asiatic
  • Turban
  • Chesnok Red
  • Siberian
  • Spanish Roja
  • California Early
  • Long Italian

Onion

Walking Onion

Beans

Bush Beans

White Half Runner Snap

Butter Beans

Jackson Wonder Bush

Garbanzo Beans

Ceci

Lima Beans

  • Alabama Black-Eyed Butter
  • Carolina Sieva
  • Christmas
  • Fordhook 242 Bush
  • Henderson Bush
  • Jackson Wonder
  • Pima Orange
  • Willow Le

Pole Beans

  • Blue Coco
  • Garden of Eden Romano
  • Louisiana Purple Pod
  • McCaslan Snap
  • Rattlesnake
  • Selma Zesta
  • Selma Zebra

Tepary Beans

– need warm nights

  • Big Fields White
  • Black
  • Blue Speckled
  • Brown Speckled
  • Cocopah Brown
  • Colonia Morelos Speckled
  • Mitla Black
  • Pinacate
  • Sacaton Brown
  • Tohono O’odham White

Beet

“Characteristically, beets are salt- and drought-tolerant crops; however, prolonged and persistent exposure to salt and drought stress results in a significant drop in beet productivity and yield.”[2]

Broccoli

Waltham 29 (when fall-planted)

Chard

– Almost all varieties listed in desert or dry climate catalogs

'A member of the beet family, Swiss chard certainly “beets” out the drought-tolerant competition.' [3]

Corn

  • Anasazi Sweet
  • Daymon Morgan’s Kentucky
  • Butcher
  • Hopi Blue Flour
  • Hopi Pink
  • Oaxacan Green Dent Corn[4]
  • Painted Mountain Flour
  • Pinky Popcorn
  • Silver Queen Hybrid Sweet
  • Tennessee Red Cob

Cowpeas

(need warm nights)

Pink-Eye Purple-Hull

Cucumber

  • Armenian
  • Lemon

Eggplant

Listada de Gandia

Grains

Amaranth

  • Mayo
  • Red Stripe Leaf
  • Tampala

Barley

  • Ethiopian Hulless
  • Jet
  • Milan

Millet

Pearl

Quinoa

– all varieties

Wheat

  • Hard Red Spring
  • Kamut
  • Vaughan Turkey
  • White Sonoran

Herbs

  • Basil – Mrs. Burns’ Lemon
  • Borage
  • Catnip
  • Chamomile, German
  • Chives
  • Hyssop
  • Lavender
  • Lemon Balm
  • Mullein
  • Oregano
  • Rosemary
  • Sage (once it’s established)
  • Sweet Marjoram
  • Thyme

Melon

  • Iroquois
  • Navajo Yellow

Mustard

– uses less water than many other cultivated vegetables

Southern Giant Curled

Okra

– needs warm nights

  • Gold Coast
  • Hill Country Heirloom Red
  • Jing Orange

Pepper

  • Jupiter Red Bell
  • Ordoño

Squash

Summer

  • Cocozelle Zucchini
  • Costata Romanesco
  • Dark Star Zucchini
  • Homs Kousa[5]
  • Lebanese Light Green
  • Maycock[6]

Winter

  • Cushaw Green-Striped
  • Iran
  • Jumbo Pink Banana
  • Khersonkaya[7]

Sunflower

Skyscraper — edible seed

Tomato

  • Caro Rich
  • Pearson
  • Pineapple
  • Stone
  • Yellow Pear Cherry

Watermelon

Black Diamond

Linkdump

References

  1. ↑ Drought-Resistant Crops and Varieties
  2. ↑ Salt and Drought Stress Responses in Cultivated Beets, accessed March 1, 2024.
  3. ↑ 9 Best Drought-Tolerant Vegetables, accessed March 1, 2024.
  4. ↑ Oaxacan Green Dent Corn (Zea mays) - Annie's Heirloom Seeds
  5. ↑ 'Homs Kousa' Summer Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  6. ↑ Maycock (Tall White Selection) Squash Landrace – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  7. ↑ 'Khersonkaya' Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
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