2026 Spring Plant Sale Catalog

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2	2026 Spring Plant Sale Catalog
3	Category	What	Variety	Days to Harvest from Transplant	Description
4	Fruit	Strawberry	Albion		The perfect dessert strawberry due to its high sugar content! Bursting with sweetness, this everbearing selection is distinguished by its conical, symmetrically shaped fruit with firm texture and superior flavor. Albion is high yielding and tolerates heat and humidity. Resistant to verticillium wilt, Phytophthora crown rot, and anthracnose. May remain evergreen in frost-free areas.
5	Fruit	Strawberry	Chandler		Chandler is variety that ripens early. Fruit is large, long conic to a long flat wedge. Chandler has a glossy and very firm skin with very firm flesh. Good dessert and freezing quality. Plants are semi-erect and runner production is excellent.
6	Fruit	Strawberry	Seascape		Seascape Ever Bearing Strawberries will produce fruit from June until frost. They have very large, very firm berries with excellent flavor and a glossy appearance. Fruit is bright red in color, both inside and out! Great variety for Farmer's Markets and Backyard Gardeners. Freezes well.
7	Fruit	Fig	Brown Turkey		The Brown Turkey fig trees are an easy to grow fruit tree and the brownish-purple fruit are sure to please the tasting senses. This cold-hardy variety displays all of the best traits of a common fig including the magnificently shaped light-green leaves, smooth gray bark, and yummy edible purple-brown fleshed fruit. Unlike other brown figs, it will survive winters in a variety of climates.The Brown Turkey fig tree is cold hardy in USDA hardiness zones 7-9 making it great for the southern United States.
8	Herb	Basil	Genovese	-	Authentic Italian heirloom variety for perfect pesto, tomato dishes & pasta and more. Produces abundant, intensely fragrant, richly flavored glossy-green leaves on branching, productive plants.
9	Herb	Basil	Holy (Tulsi) Basil	-	Known as the Queen of Herbs in India, tulsi is considered to be sacred. This type of holy basil is also known as kapoor, or temperate basil. It is distinguished by its bubble-gum scent, frost-tolerance, and fast-growing nature. Its health-promoting properties are said to help combat stress and other medical concerns. If allowed to flower, it is a bee magnet and it may reseed. Grow indoors for a continuous supply of fresh leaves throughout the winter.
10	Herb	Basil	Lime	-	(Ocimum americanum). A zesty and refreshing basil variety with distinct lime fragrance and flavor. Wildly attractive to pollinators, the fragrant foliage is a delightful addition to the herb garden, containers, beds, and borders. A few sprigs of lime basil tucked into a floral arrangement brings forth a burst of scent. Famous in Thai food and other Southeast Asian dishes. An excellent tea herb, it is also incredible when made into a simple syrup — so much fun in fusion cuisine, drinks, and desserts!
11	Herb	Basil	Persian	-	Known as Reyhan throughout the varied nations of southwestern Asia. It has a distinctive aroma, both lemony and spice-like. Perfect for soups, salads, rice dishes and flavorful tea.
12	Herb	Basil	Purple Ball	-	The beautiful, fragrant and tasty purple foliage makes this basil both gourmet and ornamental. Plants reach just shy of 1 foot tall, with a tidy, round form and plum purple color. Excellent in raised beds, window boxes, and other creative containers as well as in beds and borders.
13	Herb	Basil	Siam Queen Thai	-	Very strong, clove-scented basil. This is a must for curry and all Thai cooking. This selection has beautiful flowers. Very tasty. This improved variety produces very large and lovely flower heads.
14	Herb	Basil	Sweet Italian	-	Sweet Italian basil is a traditional herb garden favorite, with large rounded leaves and distinctive flavor. Easy to grow. Perfect for containers if kept well watered.
15	Herb	Basil	Thai Sweet	-	Popular sweet, spicy basil that is essential in Thai cuisine. Very flavorful with a nice licorice taste. This plant is not only a culinary favorite but also known for its medicinal value. It is also a source of calcium and vitamins.
16	Herb	Basil	Windowbox Mini	-	Neat, compact and richly aromatic, our miniature basil is imported from Italy where you’ll see it often in window boxes and containers or edging herb beds. The charming 8 to 10 inch plants grow into rounded, umbrella shapes with tiny bright green leaves just 1/2 inch long.
17	Herb	Borage	White	-	Meet blue borage’s rare white-flowered sister! The edible alabaster blooms of white borage impart a subtly sweet cucumber flavor and are irresistible to pollinators! This annual herb can be grown in USDA zones 3-9 and reach 2 to 3 feet tall. The young leaves and blooms are edible; leaves are perfect cooked like spinach, and the blossoms make an incredible tea or edible flower for garnish. Interplant throughout your garden to encourage beneficial insects and entice pollinators to work your other blooms! Warning: This plant is toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
18	Vegetable	Bean - Bush	California Blackeye #5 Cowpea	80	Cowpeas, or Southern peas, are super-productive legumes, yielding plentitudes of 6–8" pods loaded with large, delicious seeds. The most popular of Southern pea varieties, ‘California Blackeye’ produces peas with rich, gently sweet flavor and good, meaty texture, to be enjoyed fresh or dried. For fresh use, pick pods as soon as they are packed with seeds. Heat-tolerant.
19	Vegetable	Bean - Bush	Provider	50-55	Known as the most dependable early green bean, this easy-to-grow variety offers excellent flavor and is one of the best for freezing and canning. It germinates well in cooler soil, adapts to diverse soil and climate conditions, and is disease-resistant. Round, straight pods grow heavily on compact plants.
20	Vegetable	Bean - Bush	Tohya Edamame	85	Edamame soybeans’ flavor is nutty, buttery and truly irresistible fresh from the garden and they pack top nutritional value. Cook them quickly, right in their pods for appetizers and snacks or use like fresh beans in any recipe. These widely adapted 2 foot tall bush plants offer consistently high yields of large 3 to 3-1/2 inch green pods with 3 to 4 plump and tasty beans per pod.
21	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Blue Lake Stringless FM1K	60	These stringless pole beans have mild flavoring and are high in vitamins A, B, and C. Blue Lake beans make for excellent snap beans. They are also often dried on the vines for clear white shell beans.
22	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Ideal Market	65-70	An early-producing, stringless pole bean with vines that bear 5"-long snap beans all along its 6'-tall vines. This variety has a fine texture and excellent taste and is suitable for eating fresh or freezing. Introduced to the seed trade in 1914 as Black Creaseback by Van Antwerp’s Seed Store of Mobile, Alabama, it was reintroduced in 1924 by Chris Reuter Seed Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, as Reuter’s Ideal Market.
23	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Kentucky Blue Pole	65	Kentucky Blue is an All-America Selections winner that combines the excellence of the all-time greatest pole beans: Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake. You get big crops of sweet, straight, stringless pods 7" long. A heavy yielder for many weeks. Pole beans yield much longer than bush beans, right up to frost. Plant 4-6" apart at the base of poles, a trellis, a fence or our Bean Tower. A 2 oz. seed pack will plant a row of about 20 ft. or 10-16 poles.
24	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Kentucky Wonder	70	The classic variety for heavy crops of meaty, tender, 6" long pods with delicious flavor. Easy to grow & productive over a long harvest period. Vines are vigorous with heavy yields.
25	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Orient Wonder	80	Also called Chinese long beans or asparagus beans, 'Orient Wonder' is a delicious and beautiful, dark green, pole bean. Seeds are slow to develop, so pods stay smooth and slender. 'Orient Wonder' is much more tolerant of weather fluctuations (cool, dry to hot, humid) than traditional green beans. It's easy to grow, prolific, and almost indestructible. Beans are most tender at 12"–18" long, even though they can grow as long as 30".
26	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Tricolor - Green, Yellow & Purple	60	Vigorous pole beans twine up effortlessly and their vertical habit makes good use of limited garden space. These heavy bearing climbers reliably produce extended heavy harvests of delicious long gold, green and burgundy pods. Equal parts: Blue Lake, Yellow Pole Wax, Purple Peacock
27	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Yard Long Noodle King	65-75	These amazingly long, slender green pods can easily reach 12-18 inches! Prepare crispy Noodle King beans quickly: sauté, stir-fry or deep fry tempura-style. Their crisp, juicy texture and fine flavor makes these delicious beans a real gourmet treat to grow and enjoy in abundance fresh from the garden.
28	Vegetable	Bean - Pole	Yard Long Red	50-80	Pole. Snap. The red pods grow to 24-26" and are tender to 18". Pink red seeds. Very reliable, trouble-free variety excellent for the home garden. The red color is retained with cooking. The pods are stringless and the flavor is similar to asparagus. Good in stir fries.
29	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Charentais	75-90	A true French cantaloupe that originated in the Poitou-Charentes region circa 1920. Considered by many to be the most divine and flavorful melon in the world. Smooth round melons mature to a creamy gray with faint ribs. Sweet, juicy, orange flesh with a heavenly fragrance. Typically the size of a grapefruit and weighing 2 pounds—perfect for two people.
30	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Hale's Best Jumbo	80	1920s overnight muskmelon sensation, owing its popularity to excellent flavor with earliness. Beautifully ribbed oval melon with deep-green skin and golden netting. Firm, salmon-toned flesh is aromatic and sweet. A refreshing breakfast treat and a savory hors d'oeuvre when partnered with prosciutto. Thrives in hot weather. Plant at the base of a trellis so vines can climb.
31	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Hearts of Gold	80	Hearts of Gold' is a high-quality heirloom that can be grown in short season climates. These very productive plants produce fruit that is dark orange, firm-fleshed, and aromatic. Round, 3-pound fruits up to 6" in diameter.
32	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Minnesota Midget	60-70	This delightful little melon introduced in 1948 by the University of Minnesota produces loads of 4" fruit, sweet and juicy to the rind. Melons in general, love long, hot seasons, but this variety is specially suited to areas with a short growing season, though it can be grown anywhere. Compact, 36" plants are great for containers. Plants are Fusarium wilt resistant.
33	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Petit Gris De Rennes	80-90	One of the best Charentais type French cantaloupes. Dense 2- to 4- lb fruit has superbly sweet, flavorful, and perfumed orange flesh. This variety is early and well adapted to cool climates.
34	Vegetable	Cantaloupe	Sugar Cube (F1)	80	Coarsely netted, round, 2 pound fruit have juicy, deep orange flesh with a tremendous 14° Brix. Add an extended shelf life and you can keep these sweet, rich morsels close at hand for a personal-sized treat anytime. Expect to have a plentiful supply, as Sugar Cube’s unprecedented disease resistance keeps the reliable plants consistently productive. Resistant to fusarium wilt races 0-2, papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus. Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew races 1 and 2.
35	Vegetable	Corn	Bodacious Sweet	75	With better after-harvest staying power than most corn, Bodacious Hybrid Sweet Corn offers huge yields that you needn't rush to eat all at once. The tender 8-inch ears—nearly 2 inches across—are filled with about 18 rows of bright yellow kernels, all bursting with sweet flavor. Strong stalks reach 7 feet tall.
36	Vegetable	Corn	Buttergold	65	You can enjoy flavorful, tender, sweet corn sooner than ever before! With superior cool soil emergence, 'Buttergold' performs well in northern climates, but also does well anywhere that other corn varieties are grown. The large, 7"–8" ears have 12–14 rows of juicy, yellow kernels. Excellent for freezing.
37	Vegetable	Corn	Double Sweet	75	This outstanding bi-color sweet corn is an excellent mid season variety. The 8 in. ears are delicious. A good source of thiamin, folic acid, niacin and magnesium. Tasty and good for you. Grows to 7' tall
38	Vegetable	Corn	Martian Jewels	80-90	Though the striking color is other-worldly, the flavor of this one-of-a-kind jewel is more traditional—slightly less sweet than modern, very sweet hybrids. It was a labor of love to produce an open-pollinated corn that is loaded with beneficial anthocyanins (antioxidants), thanks to its Native American Hopi blue corn parents.
39	Vegetable	Corn	Sugar Pearl	70	Sugar Pearl’s fast-growing, vigorous stalks grow just 5 to 5 1/2 feet tall, producing delicious ears of pearly white sweet kernels with that delicate, meltingly tender flavor that characterizes really delicious white corn. Sugar Pearl was bred for specialty and farmers markets where taste is the prime criteria for success.
40	Vegetable	Corn - Popping	Dakota Black Popcorn	85	(Zea mays) Dark reddish-black ears are quite attractive for fall decorations or popping into tasty popcorn! This variety is easy to grow and does well in almost all growing climates. Fun for children's gardens.
41	Vegetable	Corn - Popping	Mini Pink Pearls	85-95	Both delicious and decorative! The lustrous pink kernels of Mini Pink Pearls pop up easily and completely into fluffy white, crunchy, tender popcorn you’ll love for healthy snacking. Each 5-6 foot stalk has multiple 4-6 inch ears that mature extra early, so you can successfully grow your own popcorn even in short summer seasons.
42	Vegetable	Cucumber	Ashley	55 - 65	Disease-resistant, heat tolerant, and less susceptible to powdery mildew, this variety is a great one to grow. Plants produce many cucumbers around 7-8 inches in length and are terrific for salads, pickles, and fresh eating. Another nice feature of Ashley is that the cucumbers are very low on vines making them easy to handle and harvest.
43	Vegetable	Cucumber	Beit Alpha	55	A delicious, very sweet cucumber that is usually picked small and does not need peeling, as the skin is very tender. This variety is very popular in the Mediterranean, having been developed in Israel at a kibbutz farm, and it is now becoming popular with Americans because of the fruit’s fine flavor and high yields. This cuke is also burpless and has great shelf life. A parthenocarpic variety, you can grow in a greenhouse without pollinators.
44	Vegetable	Cucumber	Boothby's Blonde	60	This small and unique cucumber is a high yielding variety with creamy yellow skin and small black spines. Fruits grow to 3-5 inches in length.
45	Vegetable	Cucumber	Bush Slicer	55	Bush Slicer offers juicy slicing cucumbers in record time on dwarf bushes, perfect for small space or container gardens. The straight, 6 to 8 inch-long fruits have smooth, tender skin with small seed cavities and sweet, crisp flesh. These sturdy indeterminate hybrid vines yield strong crops in both cool conditions and real summer heat. Bush Slicer is resistant to powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus and scab.
46	Vegetable	Cucumber	Chelsea Prize	60	12 to 15 inch Chelsea Prize is the same long, elegantly slender English cucumber found at a premium price in upscale markets. These thin skinned, bitter-free cucumbers are always easy to digest with absolutely delicious crispy sweet flesh and few seeds.
47	Vegetable	Cucumber	Double Yield	50-60	Heirloom. Very productive variety, good to grow for gherkins, dills or fresh eating. Dark green slender fruits, 5-6" long by 2" diameter. High percent of sets produce two fruits at each leaf joint.
48	Vegetable	Cucumber	Dragon's Egg	55-65	Beautiful cream-colored fruit is about the size and shape of a large egg! Mild, bitter free and sweet tasting, this little cucumber sets massive yields. So fun to grow, and very unique looking; great for children and all who like delicious cucumbers.
49	Vegetable	Cucumber	Endeavor	53	This early bearing pickling or “Kirby” cucumber is a kitchen garden dynamo that produces an extended harvest of dark green, crispy, curved fruits with the traditional knobby “pickle” skin. Hybrid Endeavor is great tasting and high yielding. Vines will keep you well supplied for putting up many jars of your favorite treats like kosher dills, bread-and-butter slices, relish and traditional sweet pickles.
50	Vegetable	Cucumber	French Cornichon	53-58	Cornichons are tiny, European style “mini” pickles. Traditionally they are made into the tiny, tangy pickles often served with cocktails and pâtés. French Cornichons are both early and vigorous with vines that produce high yields of refined, firm-fleshed little pickles to harvest when well-filled and just a few inches long. They are super easy to make into delicious baby pickles or tiny, sweet, crunchy gherkins.
51	Vegetable	Cucumber	Garden Oasis	60	Garden Oasis is a deluxe Beit-Alpha style hybrid, renowned for quality throughout the Mediterranean basin but not often offered commercially here because its delicate flesh doesn’t permit easy shipping. The medium green fruits are smooth and glossy, about 5 to 8 inches long, with very thin and tender skins and pale, juicy crisp flesh—the ultimate in cool and crunchy refreshment.
52	Vegetable	Cucumber	Indian Snake	65-85	Even bigger and less bitter than Armenian cucumbers, it thrives in hot weather. You’ll definitely want to trellis this fast-growing large variety to give the fruits plenty of room to develop.
53	Vegetable	Cucumber	Lemon	65	A gardener's favorite since 1894 but hard to find in grocery stores, this unusual, eye-catching, lemon-sized cucumber has excellent flavor and is a great slicer or pickler. It is scrumptious eaten with the skin and all just like you would an apple; non-bitter and burpless. Plants are more drought tolerant than other varieties.
54	Vegetable	Cucumber	Marketmore	60	Introduced in 1968 by Cornell University, 'Marketmore' is a beautiful, dark green cucumber that's ready to pick when 6"–8" long. Fruits keep their size and shape even under poor weather conditions unlike other varieties that may curl and become misshapen. The 4'–6' long vines continue to produce with regular picking. Disease resistant.
55	Vegetable	Cucumber	Mojito (F1)	50	F1 Hybrid. Attractive cucumbers with sweet, citrusy flavor; crisp texture; and bright green coloration. Exceptionally high yields of 1–2 fruit per node that are remarkably uniform and leave no bitter aftertaste. Best harvested at 5–6". Gynoecious and parthenocarpic.
56	Vegetable	Cucumber	Muncher	62	Dual purpose cucumber for both eating fresh and pickling. This tender variety is excellent for fresh eating right out of the garden. Muncher is nearly spineless. Fruits are 6-8" long and 3" wide, with strong vigorous vines. Non-bitter, burpless variety, can be eaten at any stage of growth. If using for pickles, pick when the fruits are 4-6" long.
57	Vegetable	Cucumber	National Pickling	55	This variety holds its quality longer than most and is a top-notch selection for pickling when harvested young. In smaller gardens, planting this pickling cucumber variety along a fence or trellis is the way to go! You can prepare flavorful and crunchy pickles with no bitterness every time.
58	Vegetable	Cucumber	Patty's Marketmore	68-70	Classic high yielding heirloom that produces long, dark green fruits with crunchy texture and mild sweet flavor. Weather tolerant and resistant to viruses and disease. Monoecious.
59	Vegetable	Cucumber	Shintokiwa	75	Smooth skinned, long and slender (like an English cuke), sweet, crisp, and juicy with no bitterness. Wonderfully productive. Trellis for straight 9-12” cukes or let sprawl for mostly straight and some with personality. Harvest on the thinner side for the best flavor. A great alternative to the more ubiquitous Japanese type, “Suyo Long”.
60	Vegetable	Cucumber	Sikkim	65-75	Fat, large fruit can reach several pounds in size. The ripe fruit is a unique rusty red color and is good eaten cooked or raw. In Asia, cucumbers are often stir fried and are quite tasty. This variety is grown in the Himalayas of Sikkim and Nepal.
61	Vegetable	Cucumber	Silver Slicer	54	Monoecious. This unique, white skinned slicer offers prolific yields, remarkably uniform fruit, distinctive creamy white color, and excellent taste. The 7 to 8" fruit are consistently straight, and taste testers were impressed with their tender skin, sweetness, and pleasant crunch. The vigorous monoecious vines resist Powdery Mildew and offer a continuous set of high quality fruit. Silver Slicer was developed by breeders at Cornell University.
62	Vegetable	Cucumber	Straight Eight	58	An All-America Selections winner, Straight Eight has cool, firm flesh and a bright, sparky taste. For peak flavor and ultimate toothsome texture, pick when 8" long. Best grown on a fence or trellis.
63	Vegetable	Cucumber	Sumter	55	The fruit of 'Sumter' cucumber vines are a medium-green color with white spines and are blocky and slightly tapered in shape. Well adapted for many parts of the country and excellent as both a home or market garden variety.
64	Vegetable	Cucumber	Suyo Long	65	Long, ribbed, dark green fruit can grow to 18 inches. They are very mild, sweet, and burpless. This productive heirloom comes from northern China and is very attractive.
65	Vegetable	Cucumber	Sweet Armenian	60	Distinctive Armenian heirloom cucumbers are creamy, pale-green with long, ridged fruits that have a wonderfully crisp, juicy texture. These traditional home garden favorites are also called “Yard-long Cucumbers.” Bitter-free and crunchy with very thin skins, they have few seeds and never get pithy or hollow-hearted.
66	Vegetable	Cucumber	Sweet Slice	63	Monoecious. While in the Burpless class, this sweet, non-bitter variety looks like a common slicer. This monoecious hybrid produces good yields of dark green fruit on vigorous vines.
67	Vegetable	Cucumber	Tasty Green	60	Crunchy, juicy and thin-skinned, long "burpless" Tasty Green Japanese cucumbers combine vigor and productivity with fine sweet flavor and especially refreshing crispy texture. The vigorous vines bear early, yielding abundant slender 10 to 12 inch fruits that never need peeling.
68	Vegetable	Cucumber	Unagi (F1)	55	F1 Hybrid. Glossy spineless cukes with tiny seed cavities, crisp texture, and excellent flavor. A prolific yielder of remarkably straight, uniform fruits. Harvest at 9–11" long (or smaller, if you prefer). Stays crisp and delicious up to 14".
69	Vegetable	Eggplant	Aswad	80-85	This massive dark purple variety can grow up to 3 pounds or more. Its sweet and tender flesh makes it a delicious variety to grill or bake. Originally from Iraq, this variety is heat tolerant and will produce abundantly.
70	Vegetable	Eggplant	Black Beauty	75-80	A garden staple for over 100 years! Black Beauty has became the common market eggplant of today. This eggplant can be enjoyed roasted on salads or as a meat substitute but when harvested fresh, however, makes all the difference!
71	Vegetable	Eggplant	Casper	75	A true white eggplant. A rare Japanese variety that produces long 5-8 inch slender fruits that are creamy-white to almost pure white. Soft and small-seeded. When ripe the skin will lose its sheen and be slightly soft to the touch. Great in stir-fries and Italian dishes with its mushroom-like flavor and silky texture.
72	Vegetable	Eggplant	Green Knight Hybrid (F1)	55-60	F1 Hybrid. Bred for dense, meaty flesh that resists oil and has fewer bitter seeds, this eggplant fries up well for diverse culinary experiences. ‘Green Knight’ produces robust crops of mildly-sweet, succulent, white-fleshed fruits. Prolific 34–36" plants produce plenty of 7 x 1½" jade green fruits.
73	Vegetable	Eggplant	Jewel Amethyst	80	Jewel Amethyst' is perfect for containers, with a tidy habit that makes harvesting a breeze. Glossy, oval, purple fruits are best harvested when about 3''–4 ½" long. Harvest regularly from this prolific plant and keep eggplant on the table throughout the season. Its firm texture and mild flavor make this mini eggplant ideal for roasting, frying, or glazing with a flavorful sauce.
74	Vegetable	Eggplant	Lao Green Stripe	90	Hailing from Laos, this hardy, productive heirloom eggplant is also known as 'Green Tiger Stripe.' Plants reach 2' to 3' tall and work well in both vegetable gardens and decorative border displays. Round fruits measure 2" at maturity and are more flavorful when small. This versatile variety grows well in most regions of the United States and is perfect for roasting, grilling, pickling, baking, stir-frying, and making stews and soups.
75	Vegetable	Eggplant	Long Purple	70-80	The Long Purple eggplant is considered a favorite productive Italian type of eggplant! This eggplant is a an old heirloom that was first brought to America in the 1870's by B.K. Bliss of New York. This variety produces good yields of mildly flavored eggplants that are 8-10" long by 2" wide. The Long Purple has a dark purple and glossy skin with pale white flesh that has few seeds. This variety is the most flavorful and tender when harvested young at 5-6" long. The Long Purple is a great variety for slicing and adding to different Italian dishes, such as lasagna.
76	Vegetable	Eggplant	Ping Tung	70	A wonderful eggplant from Ping Tung, Taiwan. The purple fruit reach up to 14 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. This variety is so sweet and tender, superbly delicious! One of the best Chinese-type eggplants on the market.
77	Vegetable	Eggplant	Rosita	80	Lovely 8-inch x 4-inch neon, lavender-pink fruit has a mild, sweet, white flesh. The skin is tender and not bitter. Produces excellent yields. This incredible heirloom was developed in Puerto Rico in the 1940s by the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, Rio Piedras.
78	Vegetable	Eggplant	Shikou (F1)	75	Shikou is a long Asian type eggplant with dark, glossy fruit that measure 6-8" long by 1-1.5 inches wide, have a purple calyx, very few seeds, thin tender skin, and a very white interior. Plants are medium-sized, productive, semi-spineless and mature about 75 days from transplant. Shikou is a Japanese word meaning "Supreme."
79	Vegetable	Eggplant	Snowy	65	A warm season tender annual, the unique color makes it a stand out variety. With uniform, 7” long ivory fruits that are firm and meaty, it holds up well in cooking where others may turn to mush. Can be adapted to containers, for those with limited garden space or short growing seasons.
80	Vegetable	Eggplant	Violetta Lunga	70	Early bearing and prolific Italian favorite whose elongated dark purple fruits are almost seedless with flesh that is especially mild, nutty flavored and sweet. Wonderful grilled, baked or sautéed.
81	Vegetable	Eggplant	White Knight Hybrid (F1)	60	F1 Hybrid. The delicious fruits of 'White Knight' are culinary wonders: to be savored roasted, sautéed or baked; or served fresh for tantalizing hors-d’oeuvres. Disease-resistant 34–36" plants produce opulent yields of irresistible 7" x 1½" white fruits.
82	Vegetable	Gourd	Green Bitter Melon	70	AKA Chinese bitter gourd. The fruits are excellent in broths, soups, or stir-fries, and the leaves and shoots are also edible. Bitter melon is high in quinine, which gives the fruits their distinctive, mildly bitter taste. It is also used in traditional medicines for treating diabetes and digestive issues. This variety grows 8-10" inch long, green, thin-skinned fruit on vigorous vines. The slightly warty fruits should be harvested green and when under 8" long and 3" in diameter; once they begin to turn orange and ripen, the taste is less pleasing.
83	Vegetable	Gourd	White Bitter Melon	55-65	This white color bitter gourd is a prolific India-type bitter gourd hybrid. Fruit size is about 11-12 inches long, weighing over a half pound. Bitter gourds are nutritionally dense and are recommended as a healthy food by the American Diabetic Association. The immature fruits, as well as the young shoots and leaves, are edible.
84	Vegetable	Gourd	Luffa	100	The fruit grows about 2', Tasty cooked like okra when young, edible when small and tender. Grow your own natural dishcloth or bath sponge.
85	Vegetable	Gourd	Opo	35-50	Bottle gourd, also known as bottle squash, calabash gourd, Doodhi, or Lowki is a delicious vegetable that has many uses.Its delicate nutty flavor adds greatly to hot curries as well as cooling yogurt dishes like Raita. It can be used like squash but it has a firmer, crisper texture. It is a light green variety, with uniform straight tender fruits, 1-1. 5 ft long.
86	Vegetable	Gourd - Wax	Winter Melon Round	85-95	Also known as Togan, Dong Gua, Kundur, Dongbaek. Thick-fleshed round winter melon boasts crisp, white, mildly sweet flesh and a protective wax-coated rind that enables excellent long-term storage. This heirloom favorite is gaining popularity in low-carb kitchens.
87	Vegetable	Ground Cherry	Aunt Molly's	70	Physalis grisea. Easy-to-grow, prolific, and super-sweet, this ground cherry works well for preserves and pies, over ice cream, and in fresh-fruit salads—or can simply be eaten straight out of the garden. The plants have a sprawling habit and produce ½-¾" fruits encased in a papery husk that turns brown when the fruits ripen.
88	Vegetable	Ground Cherry	Drotts Yellow	55	Physalis grisea. ‘Drotts Yellow’ boasts a tasty, sweet, fruity flavor that sets it apart from other ground cherries. Its husks turn first yellow and then brown at peak maturity, when the half-inch fruits drop to the ground from large, sprawling, and highly productive plants.
89	Vegetable	Ground Cherry	Loewen Family Heirloom	80	Physalis grisea. The very productive plants have sprawling growth, and the tangy and sweet fruits are about 2/3" in diameter and encased in a papery husk. Fruits are slightly sweeter and smaller than Aunt Molly's. Allow the fruit to fall to the ground before harvesting.
90	Vegetable	Honeydew	Green Flesh Melon	90	The Honeydew Green Flesh Melon is perfect for any summer picnic or activity. This melon is specially adapted to grow in hot, long-summer climates, no matter how hot your summers get! This mid-sized Honeydew Green Flesh boasts some of the sweetest flavor to be found in the honeydew family.
91	Vegetable	Honeydew	Santa Fe (F1)	95-105	Honey-scented Santa Fe honeydew’s ivory rinds blush yellow at harvest
92	Vegetable	Melon	Casaba Sungold	85-110	Sungold is the earliest ripener of the casaba melons, making it a good choice for short-season summers. Developed by a professor at the University of New Hampshire, the melon is 7″-8″ long, acorn-shaped with a yellow-green rind, and weighs 6-9 lbs. Popular for its luscious flesh that is sweet and a bit spicy.
93	Vegetable	Melon	Diplomat Galia	71	A Galia type melon with great resistance to powdery mildew resistance. Produces an abundance of 5-6lb. melons on vigorous vines. Thick, aromatic, sweet green flesh of excellent eating quality. Small seed pocket. Harvest at full slip, when the skin of the fruit is yellow.
94	Vegetable	Melon	Divergent (F1)	70	By pairing the best attributes of a galia and a cantaloupe, this melon is in a class by itself. Round 3 lb. fruits have a tight inner cavity with deep orange flesh that is sweet and juicy. Both size and appearance are extremely uniform with a concentrated set. Fruits are best picked when the background color is at the half green stage. This high yielding variety has Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew (Gc: 1 & Px: 1, 2 & 5) and high resistance to fusarium wilt races 0 - 2.
95	Vegetable	Melon	Eden's Gem	65-80	Productive, early-maturing variety. Developed in 1905 at Rocky Ford, Colorado as a "crate melon." Softball-sized netted fruits weigh in at about 1 pound. The green flesh has a complex spicy flavor.
96	Vegetable	Melon	Eel River	80-90	Eel River originally dates back to the mid 1900s in Northern CA. It is said to have been the product of a cross between a Japanese melon and a European musk melon. Like Crenshaw type melons, they are 3-5 lbs, slightly teardrop-shaped, and yellow/buff colored with green speckles. The incredibly aromatic orange flesh is very creamy and deliciously sweet. Judge ripeness by color and scent. Does not slip.
97	Vegetable	Melon	Golden Crispy	80-90	(Cucumis melo). Easy-to-grow, early-to-mature Asian melon with a succulent sweet flavor and crisp flesh. This gourmet variety originated in Japan and became a commercial success before it was discontinued in the early 1980s. The small, oblong- to pear-shaped fruit weigh about ½ pound each. Smooth, golden skin with incredible sweet, uniquely aromatic white flesh.
98	Vegetable	Melon	Ha'Ogen	75-80	Although this variety is most likely of Hungarian descent, this muskmelon is generally identified with Kibbutz Ha'Ogen in Israel. Ha'Ogen is Hebrew for "the anchor." Vigorous vines produce fruits with sweet, spicy green flesh that range from 2 - 4 pounds. Melons will generally slip from the vine when ripe.
99	Vegetable	Melon	Hami	80-100	Large, several pound melon well-known in China. It is similar in flavor to a sweet cantaloupe, and having a juicy white-orange pulp.
100	Vegetable	Melon	Japanese Tiger	75-90	This pocket-sized melon is a Japanese delicacy, with crisp, sweet flesh and beautiful tiger-striped skin. These melons top out at 10 to 12 ounces each. Vines will produce profusions of these tasty striped cucurbits. Useful as both a dessert and an ingredient in savory dishes.