List of drought resistant food crops

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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

  • Egyptian Walking Onion
  • Red Walking Onion[2]

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.”[3]

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.' [4]

Corn

  • Anasazi Sweet
  • Daymon Morgan’s Kentucky
  • Butcher
  • Hopi Blue Flour
  • Hopi Pink
  • Kentucky Rainbow Dent Corn[5]
  • Oaxacan Green Dent Corn[6]
  • Painted Mountain Flour
  • Pinky Popcorn
  • Silver Queen Hybrid Sweet
    • also Silver King Hybrid Sweet[7]
  • Tennessee Red Cob
  • Texas Gourdseed[8]

Cowpeas

(need warm nights)

  • Pink-Eye Purple-Hull
  • Iron and Clay[9]

Cucumber

  • Armenian
  • Lemon

Eggplant

Listada de Gandia

Grains

Amaranth

  • Mayo
  • Red Stripe Leaf
  • Tampala

Barley

  • Ethiopian Hulless
  • Jet
  • Milan

Buckwheat

  • 'Bai Lu Qiao' Tartary Buckwheat[10]
  • 'Ci Qiao' Tartary Buckwheat[11]

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[12]
  • Lebanese Light Green
  • Maycock[13]

Winter

  • Cushaw Green-Striped
  • Iran
  • Jumbo Pink Banana
  • Khersonkaya[14]

Sunflower

Skyscraper — edible seed

Tomato

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

Watermelon

  • Black Diamond
  • Homs Landrace[15]
  • Jadu'I[16], sometimes available as a smaller watermelon from the Experimental Farm Network.[17]

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References

  1. ↑ Drought-Resistant Crops and Varieties
  2. ↑ Red Walking Onion – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store, accessed March 29, 2024]
  3. ↑ Salt and Drought Stress Responses in Cultivated Beets, accessed March 1, 2024.
  4. ↑ 9 Best Drought-Tolerant Vegetables, accessed March 1, 2024.
  5. ↑ Kentucky Rainbow Dent Corn
  6. ↑ Oaxacan Green Dent Corn (Zea mays) - Annie's Heirloom Seeds
  7. ↑ Silver King (se) Hybrid Corn Seeds | Buy Packet to Bulk Wholesale Seed | True Leaf Market Seed Company
  8. ↑ Texas Gourdseed Corn
  9. ↑ 'Iron and Clay' Cowpea – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store, accessed March 29, 2024
  10. ↑ 'Bai Lu Qiao' Tartary Buckwheat – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store, accessed March 29, 2024
  11. ↑ 'Ci Qiao' Tartary Buckwheat – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store, accessed March 29, 2024
  12. ↑ 'Homs Kousa' Summer Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  13. ↑ Maycock (Tall White Selection) Squash Landrace – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  14. ↑ 'Khersonkaya' Squash – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  15. ↑ 'Homs Landrace' Watermelon – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
  16. ↑ Jadu'I: The Lost Watermelon of Jenin | The Oakland Institute, accessed March 29, 2024
  17. ↑ 'Small Jadu'i' Watermelon – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store, accessed March 29, 2024
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