The 2025 Home Garden Trials are now available. It’s hard to believe it’s already time to start ordering seeds. The trials are open to any home gardener in the state of Ohio. This means you and all your friends. This is the seventh year of the trials, and we have some exciting news. We have brought back a cut flower trial, an herb trial and a youth trial (to get the kids excited about gardening). We’ve been listening to feedback, and this year we’ve added lots of varieties that can be grown in containers.
The purpose of the trials is to have gardeners grow two varieties of a vegetable or flower side by side and then give us their feedback through our online reporting site. To learn more details about the trials, visit u.osu.edu/brown.6000/vegetable-trials.
There are a total of 13 trials this year. You can select to do from one to five vegetable trials, plus the flower, herb and youth trials. Community Gardens can choose to do all 13 if they would like. The cost of each trial is $3 plus shipping. If you pick up your order at the local extension office, there are reduced shipping charges. To see a description of this year’s trials and to place your order for this year, visit the 2025 Trials Home at u.osu.edu/brown.6000/vegetable-trials/2025-trials. The deadline to order is Feb. 16 for guaranteed seeds or March 2 for remaining seeds.
This year we have the following:
—Cool season vegetables: carrots, lettuce, peas, spinach, beets.
—Warm season vegetables: cucumbers, green beans, summer squash, peppers (sweet), tomatoes (cherry).
—Flowers: zinnias.
—Herbs: parsley.
—Youth: crazy beans.
If you have any questions about the Home Garden Trials, call or email Ed Brown at 740-893-8555 or brown.6000@osu.edu.
