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Vegetables

Beans
  • Blue Lake #274 – Dependable favorite with great flavor
  • Blue Lake FM1 – Unbeatable flavor and quality
  • Fortex – Gourmet French pole bean, great for eating, fresh or frozen
  • Speedy – Slim, dark green pods
  • Tema – Shiny, dark green, tender, sweet and fiberless
Beets
  • Red Ace Hybrid – Deep red roots are smooth, tender and sweet
  • Red Cloud Hybrid – High sugar content with a smooth round shape
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
  • Early
  • Late
  • Red – A red or purplish cabbage that is more mild and sweet than other cabbages
  • Stonehead – Named for its solid head
Carrots
  • Bolero Hybrid – Has a crunchy texture, bright orange color and sweet flavor that holds well in storage
  • Hercules Hybrid – Nice orange color throughout, and good eating quality
Cauliflower
Corn - Sweet
  • Early Extra Sweet Yellow – The golden kernels are lusciously sweet
  • Sweetie 82 Yellow – Crisp tender kernels that retain their flavor long after picking
Corn – Decorative
  • Indian Rainbow Autumn Explosion Hybrid
Cucumbers
  • Diva – Sweet crisp fruits that are the ideal size and length for slicing
  • Fanfare Hybrid – Has a delicious, mild flavor
Egg Plant
  • Black Beauty – Fruit averages 2 pounds, holds well and retains good color
Herbs
  • Basil Genovese – Scented, sweet, extra-large leaves great for pesto and garlic flavored dishes
  • Basil Lemon – Use as a flavoring for vinegar, or use it on fish or in a fruit salad
  • Basil Sweet – Use with tomatoes, veal, lamb and mild-flavored vegetables such as squash
  • Cilantro Calypso – Fragrant, citrusy herb sparks up salsa, guacamole, sauces and seafood
  • Dill Fernleaf – Use foliage for dips, and the seeds in pickles
  • Marjoram Sweet – Leaves add flavor, fresh or dry, to soups, dressing, beans and meat dishes
  • Oregano Italian – Makes a delicious contribution to savory meats and vegetables, gives a pleasant accent to cheese spreads, and is the key to a good pizza sauce
  • Parsley Curled – Use in salad dressings, poultry, soups and as an ingredient in pesto
  • Rosemary – Great flavoring for roasting meats and vegetables
  • Spearmint – A splendid flavoring for hot/iced tea, adds zest to carrots and beets
Kale
  • Redbor – A magenta kale that is mild, crisp and finely curled
  • Winterbor – Sweet and juicy with finely curled, thick blue-green leaves
  • Winter Red – Enjoyable raw, tender and sweet when steamed
Kohlrabi
  • Kolibri Hybrid – Purple skinned, nearly fiberless white flesh that remains sweet, juicy and crunchy
  • Kongo Hybrid – A light green outside with a juicy, crisp and tender white flesh inside
Leek
  • Lancelot – The long, 12-14in, white shanks of Lancelot are delicious braised, sauteed, and added to soups
Lettuce
  • Super Gourmet Salad Blend – A blend of Slobolt (best flavor of all broad-leaved types, Buttercrunch (thick, juicy green leaves), Red Sails (crinkled and deeply fringed leaves), Salad Bowl (wonderful mellow flavor) and Valmaine (a flavorful romaine).
Onions
  • Big Daddy – Gigantic sweet onion, stores 8-10 months
  • Norther Gold – Large, Yellow onion that is mildly flavored
  • Red Zeppelin Hybrid – Flavor packed deep red with great storage ability
  • Sterling Hybrid – Crisp and firm that keep up to 6 months
  • Walla Walla Sweet - Sweet
Peas
  • Sugar Sprint – Incredibly sweet, tender, stringless pods
Peppers
  • Ancho Poblano – 1,000-2,000 Scovilles, a very mild, heart- shaped chili perfect for stuffing, drying or in sauces
  • Big Bertha – Thick, crisp peppers that are extremely sweet
  • Golden Bell – delicious sweet bell pepper
  • Habenero – 100,000-350,000 Scovilles, small hot chili peppers
  • Jalapeno – 2,500-8,000 Scovilles, a medium to large chili pepper that is prized for its warm burning sensation when eaten
  • Lady Bell - This robust bell has a delicious, sweet flavor and crisp, crunchy texture
  • Orange Bell – A very sweet blocky fruit with thick walls and a great source of antioxidants
  • Paladin – Large blocky green to red bell
  • Pinot Noir – Thick-walled, crisp peppers that are very sweet
  • Sweet Banana – Long blunt-tipped, sweet banana
Pumpkins
  • Howden – Range from 15-25lbs, have a deep orange color, strong handles and a typical shape for carving
Radish
  • Champion – Brilliant red roots are perfectly round, remain crisp juicy and tender
  • Gloriette Hybrid – Bright red, globe- shaped with snow white flesh that is crisp a mild and excellent taste
Squash
  • Carnival Hybrid – Mottled green, yellow and orange acorn squash have a golden-yellow flesh that is smooth with a delicious nutty flavor that improves during storage
  • Table Treat Hybrid – Smooth golden flesh has a rich, nutty flavor with 50% higher sugars than other acorns
  • Waltham Butternut – Rind is creamy- tan and the yellow-orange flesh has a delicious, sweet and nutty flavor
Tomatoes
  • Beefmaster – Solid, meaty, bright red tomatoes
  • Black Krim Heirloom – This medium- sized, very dark maroon beefsteak, with wonderfully rich flavor
  • Brandywine Heirloom – Large flattened, deeply-lobbed fruits, considered to be the best tasting
  • Cherokee Purple Heirloom – Medium pink-purple fruits appear brown in color
  • La Roma – This bright red tomato is plum shaped with thick walls and very few seeds in the flesh
  • Mortgage Lifter Heirloom – Large, pink-skinned, tasty and meaty
  • Mr. Stripey Heirloom – Large, ridge- shouldered fruits are an unusual combination of orange-yellow mottled with red, both inside and out, smooth meaty flesh is mild- flavored and very low in acid
  • Old German Heirloom – Delicious and beautiful with succulent, meaty fruit and golden streaked, reddish skin
  • Rutgers Heirloom – Solid meaty flesh with a sweet, full-bodied flavor
  • Sweet 100 – Bursting with sugary flavor, Sweet 100s produce scarlet, cheery-sized fruits in long clusters
  • Sweet Baby Girl – An incredibly sweet cherry tomato
  • Yellow Pear – Small 1-2 inch yellow pear-shaped fruit
Zucchini
  • Spineless Beauty – These are medium green fruits with flesh that is creamy-white with a delicate flavor
  • Vermont Medly Hybrid – A mix of green, gold, yellow and Mediterranean zucchinis



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