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2008 Vegetables and Herbs

This section describes the different varieties of fresh picked produce that we will be offering for sale on our cart at at the farmer's markets we attend in the 2008 season. We will also be offering several of the varieties listed below for sale as plants. See the Plants section for more information.

 
Beans Eggplant Peppers
Broccoli Garlic Pumpkin
Canteloupe Herbs Squash
Carrot Lettuce Spinach
Cauliflower Onions Sweet Potato
Cucumber Peas Tomatoes
Zuchinni

Beans Green Bean - Hurricane
This bean is the same variety we've grown for the last several years. Great tasting 5 1/2 to 6 inch long pod that are round, extra tender, and have almost no stringy fibers. This variety matures super early so we'll have beans available early in the summer right through early fall.
Broccoli Premium Crop Hybrid
All-American Winner. Holds head longer than other varieties so harvest is not critical. Excellent crop of large, 8 to 9 in. heads, held well about the leaves. Broccoli will be available in the spring and the fall.
Canteloupe

Sweet -n- Early

This canteloupe muskmellon variety is the same as we grew in 2005 and 2006. We are doubling the amount of plants grown this year. This variety is a prolific producer, often yielding 6 to 8 melons per plant. The fruits are oval, weighing about 2 lbs., and have nice corky netting and bright peach, very sweet flesh.

Carrot Sweetness II
The name says it all. Judged by many to be the sweetest of all carrots. Golden-orange smooth roots grow 6 to 8 in. long with cylindrical shape and blocky ends. Very uniform with little or no internal greening. Chock full of beta carotene, this super-sweet carrot is extra crunchy.
Cauliflower

CheddarThis beautiful, early, orange cauliflower holds well in the field. It becomes an even brighter orange when lightly cooked. Cauliflower stops growing in hot weather so we'll only have it available in spring and a second planting in fall.

Cucumber

Diva
AAS trial judges throughout North America agreed - Diva just might be the best-tasting cuke on the planet. Diva looks like a regular salad cucumber but with a much smoother, thin, no-peel skin. Distinctly tender, crisp, sweet, bitter-free, and seedless.
Eggplant

Black Beauty
Produces as many as 5 fruits per plant - each one rich, deep purplish-black, and enormous. Tender and tasty at all stages. Retains color well.

Garlic

Music
Music is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic. Its flavor is very rich and musky, strong and robust and sticks around for a while.

Silver Rose
Rose colored cloves in very smooth bright white bulbs. Beautiful garlic to braid and stores very long. There are 12-15 cloves per head.

Herbs

Basil - Genovese
One of the most full flavored basils, with a rich aroma to match. Favored for any dishes where basil is the primary ingredient.

Cilantro - Santos
Classic Mexican herb used for its leaves. Flowers are also edible. Use raw as the flavor fades quickly when cooked.

Oregano - Greek
Heavy oregano aroma; great for pizza and Italian cooking. Characteristic dark green leaves with white flowers.

Parsley - Italian Flat Leaf
The largest of the flat leafed variety and the finest. Dark green variety with flat heavy leaves and strong stems. Direct from Italy.

Sage - Common
Wide variety of culinary uses. Lovely, small lavender flowers appear in early summer. Edible flowers: garnish, cook in rice, egg or cheese dishes.

Lettuce

Romaine - Jericho
Classic Romaine lettuce used for making Caesar salads. Upright, green head.

Butterhead - Fireball
Red Butterhead type with heads that are heavy and compact with leaves that are thick, juicy and crisp. True gourmet quality.

Simpson Elite
Green leave variety with leaves that are medium to light green, attractive, broad and crumpled. Flavor is delicate, with almost no bitterness, even late in the harvest season.

Onions

Giant Spanish Yellow
Our largest and sweetest. Flesh is pure white, sweet with a mild taste. Straw-colored skin. Good keeper.

Red Burgermaster
Classic "hamburger onion". Large size bulbs have sweet, fresh flavor with purple-red skin and white flesh. A good keeper.

Peas

Snow Pea - Snow Green

Average 3 1/4-3 1/2" pods are borne on 28" vines that don't need support. Crisp and flavorful. Suitable for those who prefer a smaller snow pea.

Pumpkin

Spooktacular
This is an extremely uniform, bright orange pumpkin weighing between 3-5 lbs. each. It has a somewhat flattened round shape and a nice dark green handle for contrast. It's early and yields very well and is rated tops for painting and pies.

Peppers

Hot Pepper Varieties

Jalepeno
Most popular pepper for Mexican dishes. Fruits are 3-1/2 in. by 1-1/2 in. and sausage shaped. Fruits start out a deep, glossy green, but turn bright red at maturity. Excellent for pickling.

Sweet Pepper Varieties

Red Knight

Big, blocky, thick-walled, and turns red early. Fruity and sweet.

Big Bertha
Extra large, superior fruits mature up to a full 7" long by 4" across, turning deep green to red.

Jupiter
Extra large, superior fruits mature up to a full 7" long by 4" across, turning deep green to red.

Squash

Summer - Multipik
Tapered, cylindrical fruits with creamy-white flesh. Best picked between 6 and 10 in. long. Heavy-yielding, bushy plants with semi-open growth habit for easy picking.

Zuchinni - Cashflow
Fruits are straight, dark green and slightly tapered.

Winter - Acorn

The medium-small, avg. 3-lb., fruits have a nice "black-green" color and an attractive shape with and great taste.

Spinach Spargo
Large, upright, high-yielding plants produce a lavish supply of flavorful, dark green, semi-savoyed leaves. For spring, summer or fall production.
Sweet Potato Jet
This high-yielding variety with dark red skin, and moist orange flesh is excellent as far north as Canada.
Tomatoes

Big Beef
"The best tomato yet developed," as described by many experts who named this colossal beauty the 1994 All-America Selections Winner. Combines old-fashioned, rich flavor with hybrid qualities of huge size, exceptional yield and full disease resistance. Globe-shaped fruits, smooth and uniform, weigh 9 oz. to 1 lb. Highly adaptable to all climates. Indeterminate.

Celebrity
This hybrid is very popular and productive because of its multiple disease resistance and tolerance. This AAS Winner is mid-early and has a long picking period. The large, deep oblate fruit are smooth, firm and red. Its determinate plant is vigorous and high-yielding. This is home garden quality in a commercial hybrid.

Mountain Fresh
We are pleased to offer this very popular main season hybrid. Mountain Fresh is noted for its firmness, uniform ripening and roadside flavor. Large, smooth, deep oblate-shaped fruit have a small blossom end scar and yields are far above average.

Roma
Best-known paste-type, indispensible for sauce, paste and catsup. Bears big crops of bright red, plum-shaped fruits with meaty interiors and few seeds. Excellent for canning whole or for adding body to juice.

Sugar Lump (Heirloom Variety)
The 1800's heirloom, remains one of the sweetest small-fruited varieties. This strain, originally found in the Bavarian region of Germany, produces long, grape-like bunches of sweet, red fruits measuring about 3/4" across.

Ultimate Opener
The best season-opening tomato in the world - the champion of earliness! Overcomes all of the typical short-comings of early maturing tomatoes.Globe shaped fruits size up better than Early Girl (about 1/3 larger) and the flavor of this bright scarlet tomato is nothing short of marvelous . . . so sweet and juicy you can't stop eating them. The strong, vigorous indeterminate plants set fruits like mad and are capable of huge yields, ensured to a large degree by strong disease resistance, including VF. You're going to love this!