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Other Vegetables & Specialty Crops Growing Guides

This category brings together a wide range of vegetables and specialty crops that do not fit neatly into the larger crop groups above. It provides a place to explore less common garden plants alongside vegetables that may have unusual growth habits, edible parts, or cultural growing requirements.

The growing guides below are designed to help gardeners learn how to grow the individual specialty crops listed here. Because these plants can differ greatly, the individual guides are especially useful for finding information about planting, soil, sunlight, spacing, watering, feeding, plant care, common growing problems, and harvesting. If you are looking beyond the most familiar garden vegetables and want to try something new, these guides provide a practical starting point.

Achira Agar Agar seaweed
Agave hearts Alabama Red okra Alaria
Apollo asparagus Aquadulce fava Arame
Argenteuil asparagus Artichoke Aspabroc
Asparagus Atlas asparagus Baby artichoke
Baby Bubba okra Big Heart artichoke Bladderwrack
Blondy okra Bowling Red okra Bull kelp
Burgundy okra Burmese okra Butterhead
Cajun Delight okra Calabash Callaloo
Canada Red rhubarb Caper berries Capers
Caraway Cardoon Carpaccio
Castelfranco radicchio Catalogna Cattail hearts
Cattail pollen Celery Celery hearts
Celtuce Chaya Chayote
Cherry Red rhubarb Chervil Chickweed
Chicory Chile de árbol Chinese artichoke
Chinese celery Chinese water chestnut Chioggia radicchio
Chipmans Canada Red rhubarb Chipotle Chocho
Choy sum Christophene Cima di rapa
Cinnamon fern fiddleheads Cipolla di Giarratana Claytonia
Clearwater sunchoke Clemson Spineless 80 okra Clemson Spineless okra
Colorado Star artichoke Conovers Colossal asparagus Conquistador celery
Courgette Courgette flower Couve Tronchuda
Cow Horn okra Crimson Flowered fava Crimson Red rhubarb
Crosne Cucurbita argyrosperma Cucurbita ficifolia
Cucurbita maxima Cucurbita moschata Cucurbita pepo
Cucuzzi Culantro Cumin
Cushaw Cutting celery Dandelion
Dasheen Daylily Daylily buds
Desert Globe artichoke Dill Drumstick tree flowers
Drumstick tree pods Dulse Eddoe
Emerald okra Erbette Fava pods
Fiddlehead fern Finocchio Florence celery
Fordhook Giant French dandelion Frisée
Fuseau sunchoke Gai choy Gai lan
Garden nasturtium Garden purslane German Wine rhubarb
Gherkin Giant kelp Glaskins Perpetual rhubarb
Glasswort Globe artichoke Golden dandelion
Golden purslane Golden Self Blanching celery Good King Henry
Green asparagus Green Fingers okra Green Globe artichoke
Green Globe Improved artichoke Green Mizuna Green orach
Green purslane Green shiso Green striped cushaw
Ground cherry Hangdown Green fava Hatch chile
Hatch Green Chile Hijiki Hill Country Red okra
Holstein Bloodred rhubarb Hon Tsai Tai Honeydew
Hosta Imperial Star artichoke Irish moss
Italian dandelion Jackson Wonder lima Jambalaya okra
Jersey Giant asparagus Jersey Knight asparagus Jersey Supreme asparagus
Jerusalem artichoke Joi Choi Jute mallow
Kandy Korn Kang kong Karmazyn fava
Kelp Kelp noodles Kiwano
Komatsuna Kombu Konjac
Korean perilla Longpod fava Lotus stem
Louisiana Green Velvet okra Louisiana Velvet okra Lovage
Luz de Otono fava Maca MacDonald rhubarb
Malanga Malanga corms Mallow
Mangelwurzel Marrow Marsh samphire
Martha Washington asparagus Mary Washington asparagus Mashua
Masterpiece fava Mei Qing Choi Mesclun
Mexican sour gherkin Milkweed pods Millennium asparagus
Mirliton Mizuna Molokhia
Moringa flowers Moringa oleifera flowers Moringa oleifera pods
Moringa pods Nagaimo Nasturtium
Nasturtium flowers Nasturtium pods Nettle
New Mexico chile Nori NuMex chile
Oca Okra Okra pods
Omaha artichoke Orach Ostrich fern
Ostrich fern fiddleheads Oxalis Oyster plant
Padrón Palla Rossa radicchio Pascal celery
Pattypan Pe tsai Pepino
Perilla Perkins Long Pod okra Poblano
Precoce dArgenteuil asparagus Puntarelle Purple asparagus
Purple Mizuna Purple of Romagna artichoke Purple orach
Purple Passion asparagus Purple tomatillo Purslane
Radicchio Ramps Red Choi
Red dandelion Red Epicure fava Red Fuseau sunchoke
Red Komatsuna Red Mizuna Red okra
Red orach Red purslane Red shiso
Red Tatsoi Red Velvet okra Rhubarb
Robin Hood fava Rock samphire Rocket
Rockweed Romaine Romaine celtuce
Romanesco Romanesco artichoke Roquette
Samphire Scorzonera Sea asparagus
Sea palm Sea purslane Sea spaghetti
Sea vegetables Serrano Sheepnose pimento
Shishito Shiso Shungiku
Silver Queen okra Skirret sparagus
Spigarello Spring raab Stampede sunchoke
Star of David okra Stereo fava Stevia
Stewarts Zeebest okra Sugar kelp Sugarloaf chicory
Summer purslane Sunchoke Sunrise rhubarb
Superaguadulce fava Sutton fava Sutton rhubarb
Sweet Lorane fava Sweet Purple asparagus Tall Utah celery
Tamarillo Tango celery Taro
Taro corm Taro corms Taro stems
Tarragon Tatsoi Tatume
Tavor artichoke The Sutton fava Tiger nut
Timperley Early rhubarb Tinda Tokyo Bekana
Tomatillo Toor dal Toy Choy
Treviso radicchio Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Tromboncino
UC 157 asparagus Ulluco Utah 52 70 celery
Valentine rhubarb Vegetable marrow Vegetable oyster
Ventura celery Verde da Taglio Victoria rhubarb
Violetto artichoke Wakame Wasabi
Water bamboo Water celery Water chestnut
Water nasturtium West Indian gherkin White asparagus
White cushaw White Fuseau sunchoke Wild agar
Wild alaria Wild arame Wild asparagus
Wild bladderwrack Wild bull kelp Wild celery
Wild chervil Wild chickweed Wild chicory
Wild dandelion Wild dulse Wild fiddleheads
Wild giant kelp Wild hijiki Wild Irish moss
Wild kelp Wild kombu Wild lambs quarters
Wild mallow Wild nettle Wild nori
Wild purslane Wild radicchio Wild ramps
Wild rice Wild rockweed Wild samphire
Wild sea asparagus Wild sea palm Wild sea purslane
Wild sea spaghetti Wild skirret Wild sugar kelp
Wild wakame Wild wasabi Wild winged kelp
Windsor fava Winged kelp Winter purslane
Witkiem fava Witloof chicory Wong Bok
Yacon Yautia Young bamboo
Yukina Savoy

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