2016 - VEGETABLE INFORMATION
ASPARAGUS
Martha Washington: 730 days. Plant in full sun to part shade. Bare roots can be planted as soon as they arrive in spring. In two years, you’ll have a light crop and a regular crop thereafter.
BROCCOLI
Premium Crop: 58 days. AAS winner. Large, firm head with small, smooth fine-textured,
beads and tender stems. Excellent long holding quality.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Jade E Cross Hybrid: 90 days. An improvement on Jade E Cross. Sprouts are larger and easier
to harvest. Plants slightly taller. Large, firm, blue green sprouts of
excellent quality closely set around stems. Freezes well.
CABBAGE
Big Flat Head: 80-85 days. A great choice for coleslaws, this cabbage has a flat form and big, mild-tasting leaves.
Mixed: A variety of cabbages (Stone head, Blue Vantage – 67-80 days; Rio Verde
Hybrid (85 days) that provide maturing cabbage throughout the season.
Ruby Perfection: 65 days. Red, solid, ball-shaped heads with short core. Sweet flavor, holds color when cooking. Slow to burst. Heads to 5 lbs.
Stonehead: 50 days. Very early producer of 3 ½ lb nearly round heads. Uniformly
short stemmed with extremely solid interior. Excellent holding ability
for an early hybrid. Can be used for kraut.
CAULIFLOWER
Self Blanche: 68 days. Pure white, well-shaped heads of fine texture when grown in
cool weather. May need tying in warm weather.
Snow Crown: 50 days. Early and vigorous growing snowball type head is well rounded. Very smooth pure white weighing about 2 lbs and of excellent quality.
CELERY
Tango: 85 days. So improved over older varieties that it’s almost an entirely new plant. Tango Hybrid delivers yields and flavor like you’ve never seen before! The stalks are wonderfully crunchy and sweet, springing up from exceptionally vigorous, robust plants.
COLLARDS
Georgia: 65 days. Tender, blue-green leaves that will withstand light frost. The mild cabbage-like flavor actually improves with a light frost. Plant in spring and again in late summer for a fall to winter harvest. Avoid areas where any of the cabbage family members were grown the previous year.
CUCUMBERS
Burpee Hybrid: 55 days. Straight green fruits, 8 ½” x 2 ½”. Rounded at the ends, with medium seed cavity and crispy flesh. Plant more than one plant for a good fruit set.
Burpless #26 Hybrid: 70 days. Very compact, productive Japanese type cucumber with fruit 9-10” long and 1 ¾” – 2 ½” diameter. Stake for best results.
Fanfare: 63 days. Great taste, compact plants, high yields, extended harvest,
disease resistant. Straight 8” – 9” cucumbers are dark green and very uniform. AAS winner.
Bush Crop: 62 days. Uniform, 9” dark green fruits are produced on compact plants. Good for trellis or fence growing. Can be used fresh or for pickling.
Perfect for small gardens.
EGGPLANT
Little Fingers: 68 days. Produces abundance of slim, long, dark purple 6 to 8 inch fruits. Plant 3-4 weeks after last frost date. Warmer ground temperature promotes faster growth. Harvest when they are no longer than your little finger.
Satin Moon: 50 days. Improved version of Satin Beauty. Glossy, oval fruit that grows up to 8 inches. Because of its very early maturity, it is well-suited to growing in northern climates as well as warmer areas.
HERBS
Herbs: Fragrant. Great for cooking. Can grow indoors. Sun to part shade.
Varieties: Basil Bush Sweet; Basil Siam Queen, Basil Sweet Dani; Chives; Chives Garlic; Cilantro Santo; Marjoram; Oregano; Parsley Triple Curled and Italian Plain; Rosemary; Summer Thyme.
KALE - VEGETATIVE
Red Russian: 60 days. 24” to 36” tender and delicious leaves. Stems are purplish and leaves are shaped like big oak leaves and colored a velvety gray green.
Blue Ridge: 52 days. A high-yielding Kale with dark blue/green fully curled leaves are easy to strip, slow to bolt. Good tolerance for heat and disease.
KOHLRABI
Grand Duke Hybrid: 45 days. AAS winner. Easy to grow, tasty crop. High yields in limited space. Round, smooth bulbous stems above soil level, up to 4” across. Delicious raw, in salads or cooked. Disease tolerant. Withstands light frost.
LEEK
Lancelot: 75 days. Long, white shafts have a dark blue/green upright flag. The 12-14” shaft provides a distinct flavor to soups and salads.
LETTUCE
Buttercrunch: 55-60 days. Known for buttery taste and velvety texture, small loosely formed heads. Slightly more tolerant of heat. Partial shade or location that receives primarily eastward exposure
MUSKMELON
Superstar: 86 days. Large, 6-8 pound fruits have smooth, salmon-colored flesh. Full sun.
OKRA
Cajun Delight: 50 days. Medium high, strongly branched plant with tender, flavorful green pods. AAS Winner.
ONIONS
Candy: 85 days. The midday onion! Unique sweet with a mild flavor. Provides early maturity produces jumbo bulbs. If cured properly, will keep until February.
Copra: (104 days) Extremely long storage. Early maturity, medium sized. Dark yellow skin. Blocky round shape with thin necks. Dry quickly.
Gold Coin Cipollini: 80 days. Very flat, yellow, pungent and sweet. Stores well. Delicious when cooked.
Nabechan (bunching): 65 days. Sweeter, more complex flavor when cooked. Upright Japanese variety with high quality. Does not bulb.
Ruby Ring: 112 days. Excellent red storage. Single centered, hard bulbs with dark red skin.
Vidalia: 80 days. Very sweet with light yellow flesh and oblate in shape.
Walla Walla: 105 days. An extremely mild, very large flattened bulb, yellow onion that will please any onion lover. Excellent raw or cooked. However, this is not a storage onion.
White Sweet Spanish 110 days. Very large, globe-shaped. Mild, fine-grained and sweet. Excellent
raw or cooked. White skin; pure white, firm, crisp flesh. Mature
onions uniform, 4”- 6” diameter.
Yellow Sweet Spanish 110 days. Very large, globe-shaped. Mild, fine-grained and sweet. Excellent
raw or cooked. Light yellow skin; pure white, firm, crisp flesh. Mature
onions uniform, 4”- 6” diameter.
ONION PLANTS IN BUNCHES
Red Sweet Spanish: Sweet, fine-textured, 3-4” bulbs. Perfect for sandwiches, salads, relishes.
Texas 1015 Supersweet: Yellow onion. Round “Granno” variety. The bigger it gets, the sweeter.
Walla Walla (Long day) An extremely mild, very large flattened bulb, yellow onion
that will please any onion lover. Excellent raw or cooked. However,
this is not a storage onion.
White Bermuda: An old gardening favorite! Great for bunching or for eating raw. They are extremely mild. Thick, flat bulbs. They do not store well.
White Sweet Spanish: White skinned, medium-large, mild-flavored bulb. Round and firm. Good
keeper.
Yellow Sweet Spanish: Extra large, light-brown skinned bulbs. White flesh. Mild flavor. Best
keeping quality.
ONION SETS
Michigan White, Yellow & Red: Most onion sets are grown from Ebenezer seed.
PEPPERS
California Golden Wonder: 67-73 days. Smooth, blocky and blunt-ended 5” x 4” fruits are thick-walled, very sweet and mild. Mature from light-green to golden-yellow.
Carmen: 75 days. Tapered 6 in fruit is noticeably sweet in comparison to other in its
Class. Early, horn-style fruits turn red at maturity. 2006 AAS Winner.
Cute Stuff Red: 56 days. Green/red apple-shaped mini-bell variety yields up to 3 times more than other peppers. Great for eating fresh or stuffing.
Giant Marconi 72 days. AAS Winner. A heavy-yielding variety that produces 6’-8’
green fruits that mature to a bright red, are about 3’ in diameter at the
top and are 3-lobed. A thin skinned variety that can be used in salads,
roasted on the grill, or pan-fried with tomatoes and eggplant.
Green Lady Bell: 71 days. The rich green fruit that ripen red have a uniform deep bell shape with 3-4 lobes and medium-thick walls. Sweet and very productive.
Gypsy: 65 days. Yellow fruits are long and pendulous. Sweet and very productive.
Habanero: 95 days. Tapered, pale-green fruits have a wrinkled skin and turn orange at
maturity. 50 times hotter than Jalapeno - 200,000 to 300,000 Scovilles.
Hot Cayenne Long Red Thin: 75 days. Very hot fruits, 5” long and 0.5” thick. Use fresh or dry for winter use.
Jalapeno: 72 days. Fruits are bright red with pungent flesh.
Mariachi: 65 days. 2006 AAS Winner. Improved cone-shaped, 3-4 in fruit ideally suited for gardens. A palatable pepper that is not too hot to eat. 500-600 Scovilles.
Nikita Orange: 75-70 days. Nicely-branched plants produce early and prolifically. Blocky blond beauty holds its crispness and shape when cooked. Loaded with bold, bright flavor and crispness.
Red Bull: 70-75 days. Extra-large, blocky bell pepper is very thick-walled and capable of becoming just huge. Begins as dark green and ripens to a candy apple red, the stage when the fruit is very sweet and most nutritious.
Red Serrano: 75 days. Very pungent fruit, 2 ¼” in diameter. Slim, club-shaped green
peppers with medium-thin walls maturing to a bright red. Plants 30” tall.
30,000 Scovilles.
Superchile: 75 days. Produces loads of medium-sized, 2-3” long, blunt-ended peppers that are excellent for hot sauce, drying and roasting.
Sweet Banana: 70 days. 5 ½” x ½” tapered yellow fruits with a thin wall. Peppers are used mostly for pickling.
Tiburon – Ancho/Poblano: 68-88 days. Heart shaped, thinner walled fruits are moderately pungent and turn from black-green to red. 88 days for red ripe.
POTATOES - SEED
Gold Russet: Midseason potato with large, strong vines and upright growth. Excellent flavor and extremely white flesh before and after cooking. An excellent dry land potato. Resistant to hollow heart, scab and black spot bruising.
Kennebec: Champion late potato! Thin skinned, so young tubers are tasty for creaming. Good for boiling, mashing and baking too – smooth, with shallow eyes. Resistant to early and late blight, mosaic virus. Stores well.
Red Norland: Harvest lots of No. 1 tubers early in the season! Shallow-eyed, nicely rounded potatoes are crisp, delicious and easy to peel. Scab tolerant.
Red Pontiac: Top-notch mashing potato! Produces solid tubers with thin red skin, shallow
eyes and crisp white flesh. Midseason to late maturity. A good keeper – has
long-lasting quality. Does extremely well in heavy soils.
Yukon Gold: Produces a big, early, great-tasting crop of yellow-fleshed spuds for baking or mashing. Delicious, rich flavor – you’ll swear it’s already been buttered! Gold skin is shallow-eyed. Sprout resistant, super for storage.
POTATOES - SWEET
Georgia Jet: 100 days. Quick maturing heavy yielder. Red skin with orange flesh. Good
cold tolerance and high productivity, even in shorter growing season.
PUMPKINS
Jack o Lantern: 110 days. Excellent for Halloween carving and cooking. Pumpkins are 18-24 pounds with a round to elongated shape.
SPINACH
Bloomsdale: 40-48 days. Large, spreading spinach has dark green, savoyed, curled leaves. Yield is good and it is slow to bolt.
SQUASH
Acorn Honey Bear: 100 days. 2009 AAS Winner acorn squash. 3-5 lb. fruit per plant. Tolerant
PM. High yield.
Acorn Table Ace: 75 days. Glossy dark green fruits are 6” long and 5” across. Develop hard
outer shell. Great keeper, small seed cavity, thick flesh.
Buttercup Sweet Mama: 95 days. AAS award winning buttercup type. Turban shaped, dark, grey-
green fruits. Flesh is deep gold and very sweet. Short, semi-vine habit.
Butternut Waltham Hybrid: 80 days. Somewhat compact vines produce high quality fruits that average
2 ½ to 2 ¾ lbs. With rich, reddish-orange flesh that has an extra sweet
flavor. Keeps well.
Zucchini Dark Green: 45-65 days. A vigorous bush variety with high yields of straight dark green fruits. Best harvested at 6-8” long.
STRAWBERRIES
Ozark Beauty Ever-Bearing: Everbearing. Good yield. Bright scarlet red berries. Extremely hardy.
Suited for beds or hanging baskets.
Honeoye June-Bearing: June Bearing. Long fruit season, tart excellent for freezing, vigorous and very hardy. Early mid, large berries.
TOMATOES
Beefmaster: 80 days. Large 2 lb. deep red, meaty fruit. Tolerant of cracking and
Ind. ** splitting. Should be staked.
Better Boy: 70 days. Resistant to verticillium, fusarium, and nematodes. Produces
Ind. ** fruit in the 1 lb. range all season. Large leaves for sun scald protection.
Crack free.
Big Beef: 73 days. Extra large, juicy, red 10-12 oz. fruit are borne high on the vines
Ind. ** right up to frost. Very heavy yields. Disease resistant. AAS winner.
Black Krim Heirloom: 80 days. Medium sized fruit, 8 oz. Very dark maroon beef steak with
Ind. ** wonderfully rich flavor. Extremely tasty.
Brandywine Heirloom: 88 days. An heirloom variety of the beefsteak type. Very large fruits on
Ind. ** unusually upright, potato-leaved plants. The color is a pink-red caused by pigment less skin over red flesh. The fruits set sparsely- only 1-2 per
cluster- and ripen late. But at season end, this tomato’s qualities shine.
Many claim this to be the best-tasting tomato variety of all.
Burpee Big Boy: 78 days. Large fruit to 2 lbs. Vigorous grower; heavy foliage.
Ind. **
Celebrity: 70 days. AAS award winner. Large 7 oz. glossy fruit. No staking. Fruits are
Determ. * firm, meaty, with FEW SEEDS. Produces under a broad range of conditions.
Champion: 62 days. Resistant to vert., fusarium, nematodes, and tobacco mosaic. 10 oz.
Ind. ** fruit has solid meaty slices. Replaces Bonny Best, Glamour, and Super Sioux.
Early Girl: 45-50 days. 6 oz. tomatoes. Deep red with globe shape. Mild flavor with red
Ind. ** meaty interior. Sturdy plants with large leaves for sun scald protection.
Husky Red: 68 days. Dwarf, compact plants ideal for small-space gardening. Good flavor
Semi determ. * and performance. Best staked.
Large Red Cherry: 60 days. Plant produces high yields of 1 ¼” red cherry tomatoes. These
Determ. * tomatoes are very flavorful and meaty. Good storage tomato. Suitable for home garden and market growers. Developed by the Washington State Univ.
LaRoma: 62 days. Italian type tomato. Heavy yields of 3-4 oz. plum-shaped fruit. Excellent for canning whole, catsup, tomato paste, chile sauce or adding body
to tomato juice. VERY FEW SEEDS. Firm, meaty texture.
Lemon Boy: 72 days. The first really true yellow variety, not golden. A heavy producer of
Ind. ** 7-8 oz fruits that are very tasty and mild.
Patio: 70 days. Medium-sized deep oblate-shaped fruit with good color. Has a
Determ. * compact upright habit with dark crinkled foliage. Grows 24”-30” tall. Stake.
San Marzano: 80 days. Long, blocky fruits mature with a small, discreet seed cavity that can Ind. ** be scooped out, leaving all meat. Good for canning and excellent for drying.