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Enjoy the benefits of vegetable gardening as a source of both good wholesome food and personal satisfaction. Food picked fresh from the garden tastes better and has more vitamins than food purchased from stores. When you grow your own, you can control the chemicals that are in and on your food. Most vegetables require at least 6 hours of sunlight a day and at least an inch of water a week. If it does not rain enough, you must provide the water.
Herbs
listed with the vegetables are sold in packs.
The herbs listed in the Herb section
are grown in single pots.
PATIO VEGETABLE COLLECTION
Lack of time and space can be remedied by planting in containers. A barrel, tub or pot outside your back door, on a balcony or porch can provide plenty of fresh produce. These vegetables are compact or dwarf varieties that were bred to grow well and produce in pots and boxes. Will do best if planted in 12-inch or larger containers.
Cucumber Patio Pickle – 45 days – 4” med. green fruit – compact vine
Eggplant Hansel - dark purple fruit - harvest 2 to 10 inches long
Pepper Apache - attractive dwarf chili pepper all summer - 2-3” peppers that start green and turn to bright red
Pepper Cheyenne – compact chili that fruits all summer – masses of medium-sized (4-5”) orange peppers – 18”
Pepper Mohawk - true bell pepper - very early, high yield of 4-5” fruits
Pepper Redskin - very early, 4-5 inch peppers ripen to red – high yields - compact and upright
Pumpkin Windsor – 90 days - mini pumpkins grown along stem – 18”
Squash Balmoral – 70 days - unique white butternut squash – upright 18” bush
Tomato Patio Picnic - 70 days - red 4 oz fruits - compact 2’ plants
Tomato Tumbling Tom – high yields of sweet, delicious, red (1-2”) tomatoes - cascading, branching plant, perfect for hanging baskets
Tumbler - D, 49 days - extra early - up to 6 lbs of very sweet, tasty 1-2” cherry-type fruit - cascading, good for hanging baskets
Zucchini Buckingham – 70 days - yellow zucchini with impressive yields – pick when 6-7 inches long – 18”
VEGETABLES
Artichoke (Globe artichoke) - Easy to grow. The “globe” is the flower bud and contains the edible parts: the fleshy base of the outer bracts, the inner bracts, the receptacle and portions of the floral stem.
Imperial Star – 85 days.
Arugula (Roquette) - Mustard-like leaf with peppery flavor. Zesty accent in any salad. Cook mature leaves. Spring and fall crops. Remove flowers to keep plants from going to seed. Also sold in our herb area.
Astro - 38 days
Basil - Easy to grow. Basil is sold in packs in the veggie area. There is a large selection of basil sold in pots in our herb area.
Beans, Dry - Powerhouse of nutrition: fat free, source of vitamins, no cholesterol, animal free source of protein and plenty of soluble fiber.
Cannellini (White Kidney) - 100 days - classic Italian white bean - upright,
vigorous, productive plants
Garbanzo (Chick Pea) - 65 days - tan bean with nut-like flavor - unusual erect, bushy plants - use as shell bean or allow to dry
Red Kidney - 100 days - rich flavor - used in Spanish and Mexican dishes
Beans, Fresh - Superior taste to beans that you buy. Easy to grow. For continuous harvest, plant successive crops. Bush beans are popular for their compact habit and quick maturity. Pole beans have that distinctive “beany” flavor and make good use of the vertical space in the garden. They are slower to bear but
produce larger yields than bush beans in less space and are easier to pick.
Envy (Edamame) - 75 days - bush soybean - early - great fresh or dried
Kentucky Wonder - 65 days - pole - 8” pods - heavy yields - freezes well
Tender Crop - 53 days - bush - 5-6” pods - disease resistant -freezes well
Beets - Easy to grow. Edible greens for salads. Likes cool weather.
Bulls Blood – 58 days – 35 days for baby leaf – heirloom candy striped
roots and deep red leaves
Detroit Dark Red - 60 days - 3 inch - sweet deep red skin and flesh
Broccoli - Tasty and loaded with vitamins. Likes to mature in cool weather. Early summer or fall crop.
Cornando Crown - large blue-green florets - heat tolerant – side shoots
Early Dividend - 46 days - early to mature - great head size, color & flavor
Packman - 45 days - hybrid - large buds - 8 inch head
Premium Crop - 65 days - hybrid - tight blue-green large head - long lasting
Raab - 40 days - matures early - 6” leafy stems with many small heads
Brussel Sprouts - Cold-hardy vegetable. Nutty flavor and a better source of Vitamin C than oranges. Flavor improves after a light frost.
Jade Cross “E” - 90 days - hybrid - large, closely packed - high yields
Cabbage - Hardy, tolerates frost and grows fastest in cool weather. High in vitamins. Use in salads, stir fry, or cooked.
Flat Top – 85 days – hybrid - very large - mid to late season
Market Prize – 50 days – early – 4 lb head, 6” across - stands well without bursting - Yellow’s Disease resistant
Ruby Perfection - 85 days - hybrid - slow to burst - 3½ lb red head
Savoy Ace - 80 days - thin, crinkled leaves - tender texture
Cantaloupe - See Melon - Vegetables top
Cauliflower - Early summer or fall crop. Nutty-sweet and tender unlike its sad, strong-flavored supermarket counterpart.
Self Blanche - 72 days - 3-4 lb head is 7” across - wrapper leaves curl
over heads and blanches automatically
Snow Crown - 50 days - hybrid - round white 2 lb heads - extra early
Celeriac (Root Celery) - Root with great celery flavor. Excellent in soups and stews. Harvest when root reaches 2 inches in diameter.
Large Smooth Prague - 120 days - knobby root forms at soil level
Celery - Bushy, mounded plant. Some varieties need special attention to grow but are worth the effort.
Conquistador - 80 days - full, upright heads
Chard - Mild, sweet and easy to grow. Replaces spinach during the hot months. Pick late spring to winter. Drought tolerant. Virtually pest free.
Bright Lights - 60 days - wide range of stem colors
Rhubarb - 55 days - crimson stalks with glossy green, crinkled leaves
Swiss - 55 days - green crinkled leaves, white veins, broad white stems
Chicory - Leaves and stalks harvested in spring add zest to salads.
Cicoria Catalogna (Radichetta) - 65 days - dark green leaves
Chives - See Onions in Vegetable Section and Herb Section
Cilantro - See Cilantro/Coriander in Herb Section
Collards - Juicy leaves have mild cabbage-like flavor. Non-heading.
Georgia Green - 60 days
Coriander (Cilantro) - Use seeds (Coriander) as flavoring in sausages, stews, curry and pastries. Leaves (Cilantro) are used in Oriental, Mexican and Mediterranean dishes. See Cilantro/Coriander in Herb Section.
Corn - Garden fresh flavor is infinitely superior to store-bought.
Butter & Sugar - 65 days - hybrid – bicolor
Honey Select - 79 days - hybrid – triple sweet yellow
Popcorn - Popcorn is grown just like sweet corn. Pick ears after the husks begin drying. Husk and spread ears in dry, airy spot for a couple of weeks. Test pop a few kernels periodically to determine when the kernels are dry enough to twist from the cobs.
Robust Yellow - 85-100 days - hybrid – large ears and high yields - excellent popper with large yellow kernels
Cucumber - Cool, mild, refreshing. Harvest fruits small or large.
Burpee Hybrid - 58 days - 8 inch - dark green with white spines
Burpless Bush - 70 days - hybrid - 9-10” - compact and productive
Bush Crop - 55 days - 6-8”- flavorful, good for small beds
Bush Pickle (Kirby) - 48 days - hybrid - 4-5”- good in pots or small spaces
Patio Pickle – 45 days – 4” med. green fruit – compact vine
Eggplant - Handsome upright plants with pretty, violet blossoms and shiny fruits in many hues.
Bambino - 45 days - hybrid - 1” - dark purple miniatures
Black Beauty - 72 days - large black teardrop fruit - bushy 2 ft plant
Classic - 75 days - hybrid - deep purple-black - best known variety
Dusky - 60 days - hybrid - dark purple - pear shaped - early
Fairy Tale - F1, 65 days - 2-4” purple & white striped fruit - few seeds
Ghostbusters - 72 days - hybrid - white skinned
Hansel - dark purple fruit - harvest 2-10” long - good choice for growing eggplant in containers
Japanese Long - 54 days - shiny, cylindrical, dark purple color
Little Fingers - 68 days - slim - dark purple - prolific - free-setting
Endive - Curled lacy leaves. Used for salads. top
Green Curled - 95 days - finely cut, curled, fringed leaves
Escarole - Use in salads like you would use Endive.
Broad-Leaf Batavian - 85 days - upright, smooth, broad leaves
Garlic - Easy to grow. Break cloves from head and plant each clove individually in rich well drained soil. Also considered an herb.
California Giant - large, white cloves
Kale - Very cold hardy, flavor improves after first frost.
Redbor – 60 days – deepest red-purple, frilly leaves - redness and
curling enhanced by cold weather
Winterbor – 60 days – well curled, blue green leaves - good yields and good cold hardiness - vigorous re-growth for successive harvests
Kohlrabi - Novelty plant that’s fun to eat. Bulbous, above-ground stem are delicious raw. Flavor and texture of water chestnuts.
Purple Vienna - 55 days - red-purple flat globe - white flesh roots
White Vienna - 55 days - flat globe roots - white flesh - slow to bolt
Leeks - Sweet, mild gourmet onion. Excellent for soups and salads.
Lettuce - Performs best in cooler weather. Head-types tend to bolt in the heat. Leaf and loose-leaf types are best for mid-summer.
Boston - 70 days - butter-head type
Buttercrunch - 70 days - head type - 4½ inch rosette - crisp and juicy
Galatic – 48 days - red leaf - vigorous - keeps flavor in warm weather
Mesclun Mild Mix – cut and come again blend of red and green Salad Bowl, Romaine, Rapids, Pak Choi, Hon Tsai Tai, Kale, Mustard Greens
Red Romaine - 57 days - outstanding bright red color - loose head
Red Sails - 45 days - loose-head - bronze-red crinkled leaves
Romaine - 75 days - head - long, upright, broad leaves - easy to wash
Salad Bowl - 45 days - big tender green loose-leaf rosettes - heat tolerant
Simpson Elite - 45 days - hybrid - loose-leaf - crinkled, curled edges
Melon - Sweetest of all fast-growing fruits.
Cantaloupe Ambrosia - 88 days
Honey Dew Earli-Dew - 86 days
Watermelon Crimson Sweet – 85 days - 15-25 lbs
Watermelon Sugar Baby – 73 days icebox size fruit
Okra - Do not plant too early. Prefers warm temperatures and soil.
Cajun Delight - 55 days - harvest immature pods early
Onions
Onion Plants - Cold weather crop. Separate seedlings and transplant into the ground approximately 6 inches apart.
Red Burgermaster - 112 days - hybrid – large - red globes - sweet
White Sweet Spanish - 115 days – mild – large - good for north
Yellow Sweet Spanish – 115 days – large - globe – shaped – mild
Bunching Onions (Scallions) - Tender young shoots of bulb onions.
Green Bunching - 40 days - green-white but no bulb - plant 2-3” apart
Red Bunching - F1, 60 days
Chives - Delicate, onion flavor for soups, potatoes and salads.
Leeks - Sweet, mild gourmet onion. Excellent for soups and salads.
Onion Sets (small dry onions) - Sold in packages. Green onions early or full-size onions in 85 days. One pound plants a 50’ row. Easy to grow.
Red - mild flavor
White (Ebenezer) - stores well
Yellow (Stuttgarter) - most common - stores well
Peanuts
Jumbo Virginia - 100 days - large peanuts - loose well drained soil - do not over water - harvest
just before frost, dig up the entire plant - dry by hanging the plant with peanuts still attached in
dry airy spot
Peas - Plant as soon as the soil can be worked in the early spring.
Sugar Snap - 70 days - edible pod - tolerates heat
Potatoes - Plant early in the spring. Plant a small piece of a seed potato with at least one growing eye. Do not use supermarket potatoes. They may be treated to delay sprouting and to inhibit growth.
Kennebec - mid season - white skinned - good keepers - excellent
yield - highly resistant to blight and tobacco mosaic
Red Norland - early - round with shallow eyes - thin red skin and
white flesh - heavy yields - moderate resistance to scab
Russet - white - excellent for baking
Yukon Gold - early - yellow flesh - strong yields
Pumpkin - Delicious pies, roasted seeds and jack-o-lanterns. (Pots Only)
Baby Bear - 105 days - 1½ lbs - jack-o-lanterns or pies
Howden – carving type - average 20-25 lbs
Jack Be Little - 95 days - mini, dark orange - 2” x 3”
Windsor – 90 days - mini pumpkins grown along center stem – good for container gardening - 18”
Radicchio (Italian Chicory) - Chicory that develops small, tight heads of red to magenta leaves with white veins. Golf ball to soft ball size.
Alto – 63 days – good heat tolerance
Rhubarb - Perfect for great pies. Use only the stalks for cooking.
Canada Red
Victoria
Spinach - Prefers cool weather for best growth. Salads or cooked.
Bloomsdale Long Standing - 48 days - thick-textured, crinkled, glossy
Malabar Red Stem - 50 days - early – warm season spinach on 6 foot
red ornamental vines
Melody - 43 days - hybrid - high yields of deep green, savoyed leaves
Squash - Easy to grow. Vigorous. Squash blossoms are also edible.
Acorn Table Ace – 70 days - winter - black-green 4-6”, semi-bush
Balmoral – 70 days - unique white butternut squash – upright 18” bush, grows well in pots
Early Butternut – 82 days - winter - tan fruits - compact vines
Prolific Yellow Straightneck – 52 days - summer - early straight neck
Spaghetti Pasta F1 – 85 days - winter - yellow - spaghetti-like pulp
Zucchini Ambassador – 51 days - summer - long, thin and green
Zucchini Buckingham – 70 days - yellow zucchini - good yields – pick when 6-7” long – grows well in containers
Strawberry top
Fort Laramie – high yields - large sweet fruit – cold hardy – everbearing
Fragaria (Ornamental or Alpine Strawberry) - grown more for its flowers than fruits - listed in the Perennial Section and in the Herb Section
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