TIDEWATER GARDENING
by K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
What’s New for 2021? Shallots and Peppers! At the beginning of each year, I like to highlight new flowering and vegetable plant varieties that are available to the home gardener. Some of these may or may not be better than or superior to the old tried-and-true ones but they usually offer distinctive characteristics such as different colors or sizes of vegetables. Other attributes are whether they can be grown in a
container or pot, have enhanced disease resistance or a unique taste or flavor. As with many activities in life, we gardeners sometimes get into the proverbial “rut� and grow the same thing each year. These new varieties help to expand our horticultural palate and, who knows, we might find something new that is really neat, easier to grow, great tasting or provides greater yields.
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