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Fruiting Vegetables

Crops grown for their fruit — tomato, pepper, cucumber, squash, beans · 18 crops

Fruiting vegetables are the crops grown for the fruit that sets after flowering. Most of the stars of the summer garden belong here, from tomatoes and peppers to cucumbers and squash. They take longer to grow than leafy greens and demand more attention to staking and watering, but a single plant keeps producing all summer, making the harvest the most rewarding of all. They're rich in pigments like lycopene and beta-carotene, so the redder and more golden the fruit, the deeper its antioxidant value.

Eggplant / Aubergine Solanum melongena Kidney Bean / Common Bean Phaseolus vulgaris Chili Pepper Capsicum annuum Shishito Pepper Capsicum annuum Strawberry Peanut Arachis hypogaea Cherry Tomato Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme Watermelon Citrullus lanatus Korean Zucchini Cucurbita moschata Bitter Melon Momordica charantia Cucumber Cucumis sativus Okra Abelmoschus esculentus Pea Pisum sativum Pole Bean Phaseolus vulgaris Korean Melon Cucumis melo Tomato Solanum lycopersicum Bell Pepper / Paprika Capsicum annuum Pumpkin / Squash

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