VegetablesNew Varieties For 2012

BASIL ‘CAESAR’

Harris Seeds

•Large, aromatic leaves

•Easy to harvest and bountiful yield

•Large classy 3-inch leaves

•Well-branched 12 to 18-inch plants

•Slower to bolt

•Ocimum basilicum

BEAN ‘AMETHYST’

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

•Most attractive long, thin straight pods

•Delicious tasting raw or cooked

•Purple pods turn green when cooked

•Pods average 5 to 5 1/2 inches long

•No staking required of the medium-

sized upright plants

•Harvest 56 days from sowing seed

•Phaseolus Vulgaris

BEAN, BUSH ‘TIGER’S EYE’

Botanical Interests, Inc.

•Prized for its beautiful golden seeds

with maroon markings

•Versatile bean can be harvested at

almost any stage from 55 to 95 days

•Eat young beans like a snap bean

•Use mature green pods like a shell

bean

•Delicious buttery texture and flavor

•Phaseolus vulgaris

BROCCOLI ‘ATLANTIS’

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

•Atlantis is a broccoli/gailon cross that

competes favorably with baby broccoli

sold in supermarkets

•Florets slightly bigger with potentially

higher yield than ‘Happy Rich’

•If harvested 1-2 times per week, plants

will bear well for 4-6 weeks

•Brassica oleracea

BROCCOLI ‘ROMANESCO’

Botanical Interests, Inc.

•Beautiful Italian heirloom with eye-

catching lime green, spiraled head

composed of many small pointed florets

•Delicious nutty broccoli flavor and

creamy texture

•Sure to intrigue gourmet chefs and

finicky eaters alike

•Harvest 65 days from transplant

• Brassica oleracea

CUCUMBER ‘CRYSTAL APPLE’

Seeds By Design

•New Zealand import similar to lemon

cucumber from the early 1930’s

•3-inch diameter fruit weighing 4-6

ounces is apple-shaped when ripe

•Thin tender creamy-white skin

•Mild flavor

•Very prolific vining plants

•Cucumis sativus

CUCUMBER ‘MANNY’

Harris Seeds

•Petite specialty cucumber

•Delicately sweet and crisp, slim,

smooth green fruits 5-7 inches long

•Tender skin needs no peeling

•Intermediate resistance to Powdery

Mildew

•Yields best when trellised

•Harvest 50 days from sowing seed

•Cucumis sativus

EGGPLANT ‘POT BLACK’

Floranova Ltd./Vegetalis

•Highly ornamental black 2-3 oz fruit

•Container conversation piece

•Pick from ping pong ball size until tennis

ball size

•30 or more tasty fruits per plant

•Harvest 58-62 days from transplant

•Colorful addition to a vegetable medley on

the grill

•Solanum melongena

EGGPLANT ‘TURKISH ORANGE’

Seeds By Design

•Huge crops of small orange ribbed

10 to 14-ounce fruit

•Round 2 ½ to 3-inch fruits are

perfect size for stuffing

•Insect resistant plants 24 inches tall

•Harvest 85 days from transplant

•Solanum melongena

GOURD ‘DECORATIVE MIXTURE’

Terra Organics

•Colorful mixture of many small type

pepo gourds including egg, spoon,

warted dumpling and semi wings

•A must for everyone's fall displays and

gardens

•100 days to maturity from sowing seed

•Prolific vines spread 3 to 5-feet

•Cucurbita pepo

GOURD ‘SPINNING/DANCING’

Seeds By Design

•Produces a large number of extremely

small bird house shaped fruits

•Green and tan colored 2-3 inch fruits

•Great item for toys and decorations

•Vigorous vines spread up to 10 feet

•100 to 120 days to harvest from seed

•Lagenarai siceraria

LETTUCE ‘CARETAKER’

Harris Seeds

•Very uniform heads of iceberg lettuce

•Retains mild flavor as temperatures rise

•Slow to bolt in summer heat with good

tolerance to tip burn

•Attractive addition to sunny containers

•Harvest 73 days from sowing seed

•Lactuca sativa

MELON ‘DELIGHTFUL’ F1

Seeds By Design

•Large sutured cantaloupe

•Can be described as a classic

Eastern muskmelon

•Sweet tender dark salmon colored

flesh full of flavor and aroma

•Vines spread 3-5 feet

•Harvest 85 days from sowing seed

•Cucumis melo

MELON ‘SAKATA’S SWEET’

Terra Organics

•Lovely white rind and white fleshed

melon originating in Japan

•Very crisp flesh and extremely high

sugars

•8 to 10-inch oblong melons weigh 3

to 4 pounds

•Prolific vines set 6 to 7 fruit each

•Cucumis melo

MELON ‘SOLSTICE’

Harris Seeds

•Outstandingly sweet and juicy

•Deep, smooth orange flesh

•Big 7 to 9-pound size family treat

•Disease resistance to Fusarium Wilt

(races 0,1, and 2) and Powdery Mildew

(races 1 and 2) makes it easier to grow

•Cucumis melo

MELON ‘TEMPTATION #1’ F1

Sakata Seed America, Inc.

•Unique orange fleshed honeydew!

•Sensational taste and sweetness

•Beautiful orange flesh transitions to

an edible green color toward the rind

•Harvest the smooth 6 to 7-inch round

fruits in 80-90 days from sowing seed

•Disease resistant 48 to 72-inch vines

•Cucumis melo

MIX ‘BURPEE’S BOOST COLLECTION’

W. Atlee Burpee & Co.

•To your health!

•Six most nutritious and delicious “Best-

in-Class” vegetables selected by

Burpee experts for a harvest of health

•‘Boost’ includes 3 tomatoes ‘Solar

Power,’ ‘Power Pops,’ and ‘Cherry

Punch,’ Pepper ‘Sweat Heat,’ Cucumber

‘Gold Standard,’ and lettuce ‘Healing

Hands Mix.’

MUSTARD ‘BABY MUSTARD MIX’

The Cook’s Garden

•Braised mustard greens are creamy,

nutty and nutritious

•Mix of ‘Segal’ with savoy leaves

maturing from green to purple;

‘Lahav’ with serrate chartreuse

leaves; and ‘Green Sefiron’ with

deeply lobed medium green leaves

•Brassica rapa

MUSTARD ‘MIZUNA RED STREAKED’

Terra Organics

•Very frilled leafed mustard - beautiful!

•Leaf changes from green to red at a

very small stage

•Mild peppery flavored leaves 4 to 6

inches long

•Plant in garden or containers after the

last frost or in early fall

•Harvest 30 to 40 days from sowing seed

•Brassica japonica

ONION ‘RED CREOLE’

Dixondale Farms

•Dark red, globe shaped pungent onion

•3 to 4-inch fruits weigh ¾ pounds

•110 days to harvest

•Storage potential of 6 to 7 months for

this short day storage onion

•Biennial Zone 6

•Disease resistance to Pink Root

•Allium cepa

ONION ‘REDWING’

Dixondale Farms

•Red mild tasting hybrid

•Large 1 pound globe shaped onions 2¾

to 3½ inches in size

•Storage potential of 4 to 6 months

•Harvest 100-120 days from transplant

•Biennial Zone 1

•Allium cepa

ONION ‘TEXAS EARLY WHITE’

Dixondale Farms

•White globe shaped sweet onion

•Large 1-pound, 5½ to 6 inches

•Pink Root disease resistant, bolt

resistant and resistant to greening

•Biennial Zone 6

•Harvest 110 days from transplant

•Storage potential 2 to 3 months

•Allium cepa

PARSLEY ‘LISETTE’

Geo. W. Park Seed Co., Inc.

•Premium tightly curled leaves

•Outstanding bolting tolerance

•Strikingly bright green color

•Tidy bunched habit 8-10 inches tall

•Excellent choice for containers

•Both heat-tolerant and excellent for

over-wintering

•Petroselinum crispum

PEPPER ‘CHERRY STUFFER’ F1

The Cook’s Garden

•Sweet version of favorite hot pepper

stuffer ‘Cherry Bomb’

•Ready to stuff and bake in one knife move

•2 to 4-ounce fruit is about 2½” long

•Plants 2 feet tall produce 20 to 25 sweet

tasting bright red peppers

•Harvest 73 days from transplant

•Capsicum annuum

PEPPER, CHILE ‘BASKET OF FIRE’ F1

•First true hanging basket pepper!

•Spicy hot peppers turn from cream to

orange and maturing to red

•Small leaves don’t hide the fruit

which pop from under the foliage

•Basal branches cascade

•Matures in 90 days

•Capsicum frutescens

Floranova Ltd./Vegetalis

PEPPER, CHILE ‘GUSTO GREEN’ F1

Pro-Veg Seeds

•Tasty medium-hot flavored pepper

•Slender, flame-shaped 3-inch fruit

•Matures from green to a rich red color

•Compact, mounding plants remain a

tidy 12 inches wide and tall

•Stunning display in containers

•Matures in 65 to 75 days from sowing

•Capsicum frutescens

PEPPER, CHILE ‘GUSTO PURPLE’ F1

Pro-Veg Seeds

•Medium-hot type hybrid pepper

•Matures from purple to bright red

color

•3-inch long flame-shaped fruit

•Compact plants 12 inches wide and

tall are well suited to containers

•Matures in 65-75 days protected

•Capsicum frutescens

PEPPER ‘MOLE SAUCE’

The Cook’s Garden

•Pepper collection of ancho, pasillo and chili

peppers for homemade mole recipes

•Hot and smoky flavored 2 to 2.5-inch fruits

•Tall bushy plant suitable for containers

•Plant produces 20 to 25 peppers

•Harvest ripe red peppers about 130 days

from sowing seed

•Capsicum annuum

PUMPKIN ‘MR. WRINKLES’ F1

Sakata Seed America, Inc.

•Large Jack-O-Lantern type pumpkin

with thick flesh and a sturdy handle

•Dark orange color and deep ribs that

give fruits a unique “wrinkled” look

•Plants produce large yields of 20-30

pound barrel-shaped fruits

•This good tasting fall decorator can be

harvested in 100-110 days

•Cucurbita pepo

SPINACH ‘PYTHON’ ASIAN-LEAF

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

•Smooth, dark green arrowhead

shaped leaves

•Long 6 to 8-inch stems

•Uniform plants with an upright habit

•Fast growing, just 35 days to harvest

•Resistant to downy mildew races 1-7,

9 and 11

•Spinacia oleracea

SQUASH ‘GOLDEN EGG’

W. Atlee Burpee & Co.

•Golden-yellow egg-shaped squash

•Measures up to 5 inches across

•Boasts succulent sweet creamy flesh with

hints of chartreuse

•Best-tasting squash in the Burpee taste

trials two years in a row

•Harvest 41 days from sowing seed

•Cucurbita pepo

SQUASH ‘HONEYNUT’

Seeds By Design

•New from Cornell – a small butternut

that is an orange-buff color

•Fruits are 4 to 5 inches long and

weigh 5 to 8 ounces

•Great item for any home garden

•Vines spread 30 to 50 inches

•Harvest 100 days from sowing seed

•Cucurbita moschata

SQUASH ‘LAKOTA’

Terra Organics

•Fine grained, orange flesh

•Sweet, nutty flavor - good for baking

•Beautiful orange and green skinned

pear-shaped squash of 5 to 7 pounds

•Vines spread 3-4 feet

•Matures in 85 to 105 days

•Cucurbita pepo

SQUASH ‘MINI TURKS TURBAN’

Seeds By Design

•Miniature ornamental squash with a

turban-like shape

•Eye-catching brightly colored orange

stem end with a creamy top

•Fruits are 3 to 6 inches in diameter

•Vines spread 3 to 5 feet

•Matures in 80 to 100 days from seed

•Cucurbita maxima

SQUASH, WINTER ‘SILVER EDGED’

Seeds By Design

•Grown for their tasty spectacular

seeds flavored like pumpkin seeds

•Round 12-inch tan fruit with green

stripes

•Fruit weigh 5 pounds

•Vines spread 3 to 5 feet

•4 to 8 fruits per plant

•Cucurbita mixta

TOMATO ‘BIG DADDY HYBRID’

W. Atlee Burpee & Co.

•Bred from all-time great ‘Big Boy’

•Upright plants produce delicious

harvests of ruby red round meaty fruits

•Robust tomato flavor

•Tips the scales at whopping 15 ounces

•Enhanced disease resistance

•Matures 119 days from sowing seed

•Lycopersicon esculentum

TOMATO ‘CHERRY FALLS’

Floranova Ltd./Vegetalis

As the name implies, cherry sized and

cherry colored fruit cascades to form a

waterfall of about 300 fruits

Sweet and juicy 1.5 inch half ounce

fruit

Well suited for baskets, window boxes

and mixed combination pots

Ripens in 68-72 days from transplant

Solanum lycopersicum

TOMATO ‘INDIGO ROSE’

Territorial Seed Co.

•First high-anthocyanin (pigment

shown to fight disease in humans)

tomato commercially available

•Vibrant indigo, almost blue skin on

portion of fruit exposed to light

•2-inch, round fruit

•Good flavored red interior flesh

•Lycopersicon lycopersicum

TOMATO ‘SWEET ZEN’ F1

Sakata Seed America, Inc.

•A must for container gardens

•Compact determinate plant

•Unlike other determinates, it can be

harvested a longer period of time

•Sweet, bright-red grape type fruits

mature early

•Lycopersicon lycopersicum