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​Growing your own vegetables can be not only a rewarding experience, but a very tasty one too! We carry a wide variety of vegetable plants and seeds to get your garden off on the right foot.

Artichoke

An Artichoke is actually a bud of a thistle which you consume, while the leaf, stem and root are used for medicine. Artichokes are known for being a superfood with high levels of antioxidants. They are fat-free, low in sodium, key nutrients they contain are Potassium, Fiber, Vitamin C, Magnesium and Folate.
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Tavor (Imperial Star) is a notable reliable artichoke for our northern climate. Thornless plant with 5-7 buds that measure up to 4.5". It has a sweet, mild and tender flavor. 
Size: 4.5"
​Days To Maturity: 150 

Bok Choi

Bok Choy belongs to the Chinese cabbage family. It can be eaten raw or cooked. It has various health benefits including helping reduce cholesterol levels and promoting strong bones. It also contains minerals, antioxidants, fiber and vitamins. The highest vitamins being C and K.
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Mei Qing Choi is a great choice for baby production. Produces compact vase shaped  that are slow to bolt to in heat or cold stress. The leaves are a flat, rich green. It has a nice mild flavour.
Size: 4-8"
Days To Maturity: 45 

Broccoli

Nutritionists consider broccoli a superfood that helps you in so many ways. Go ahead and boil it and serve it with butter, but also try adding it to stir-fries and Italian pasta dishes. Broccoli grows best in the cooler climates. When planting broccoli, make sure the rows are three feet apart. Plant the plants one and a half to two feet apart.
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Castle Dome broccoli is a heat loving variety that is fast maturing and also displays cold vigor. Excellent adaptability and holding ability. High dome, tight beads. 
Size: 8"
Days to Maturity: 75

Brussel Sprouts​

Brussels sprouts are a nutritious, flavor packed crop that grow best in cool temperatures. Brussels sprout plants have thick, trunk-like stalks that grow 2-3' long, studded up and down with the edible sprouts, which look like baby cabbages. Each stalk may produce 50-100 sprouts. Plant the sprouts 2' apart in rows 3' apart. Provide at least an inch of water per week. Wait until after a few frosts to harvest. They'll be much milder-flavored and sweeter.
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Jade Cross is a vigorous variety that has early maturing Brussels sprouts. Deep green, firm, medium-sized, oval sprouts grow closely on medium sizes plants. Holds will in adverse weather. Will tolerate heat stress well. Excellent flavour.
Size: 1"
Days to Maturity: 90

Cabbage

Grow cabbage in your garden, and you're sure to gain a new appreciation of this ethnic favorite. Try experimenting with the many interesting varieties available. There are early, mid-season, and late varieties; round, conical, or flat-head types; smooth leaves or savoyed (crinkled) foliage; and colors ranging from yellow green to blue green, deep green, or purplish red. Each has a distinct flavor, with the red types being among the most sweet. Plant cabbage plants 12-24" apart in rows, depending on size of head desired. The closer you plant, the smaller the heads. Although cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower are are closely related, and require similar nutrients, it’s best not to plant them together. They are all heavy feeders, depleting the soil faster of required nutrients; plus, they will attract the same pests and diseases; also best to avoid planting near strawberries and tomatoes. Cabbage can be grown near beans and cucumbers.
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Early Varieties
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Caraflex Pointed is one of the sweetest, most tender cabbages available and it's early maturing to boot! Caraflex Pointed is perfect for coleslaw and stir-fries as well as salads where you want some extra crunch. This hybrid produces compact plants.
Size: 1.5-2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 50
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Golden Cross is a great “mini-cabbage.” It matures extra early with tight, softball-sized, round heads. The small plants allow closer spacing in the garden or for growing in containers. The flavour of this cabbage is robust and sweet.
Size: 2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 40
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Gregorian is a green, medium frame cabbage. It produces a uniform product that combines early maturity and tolerance to environmental stresses. Gregorian is a dependable producer that is quite suitable for home gardens.
Size: 3.5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 59
Late Varieties
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Copenhagen Market is a heavy producer of large, 6-7" round heads. Vigorous plants are easy-to-grow, but should be timed so heads mature in cool weather. The vitamin-rich heads are delicious cooked or raw in salads and coleslaw.
Size: 4.5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 70


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OS Cross cabbages have a unique flat or drum head-type without large central leaf veins. Large thin veined leaves are easily rolled for cabbage roll production. Plants are heat tolerant. Best to harvest this cabbage in late September.
Size: 5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 80
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Danish Ballhead heirloom cabbages produce cabbages that are mild and tender. This is a great, general-purpose cabbage that is good for sauerkraut, coleslaw, or general cooking. Big 7-10", light-green, well-protected heads stand happily in the garden well into the season.
Size: 5.5 lbs.
Days to Maturity: 120
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Ruby Ball is an early maturing red cabbage with a dark red exterior color and a good internal red color. The upright growing, compact plant allows for dense planting and produces heads of excellent quality. Stores well after harvest.
Size: 3-4 lbs
Days to Maturity: 78
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Golden Acre is an excellent early summer variety ball-head cabbage. With small to medium-sized green, round solid heads on compact plants with few outer leaves. Ideal for confined areas as it will give small heads of first rate quality and flavour.
Size: 3-4 lbs
Days to Maturity: 65

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Savoy Ace Improved is a popular and quick semi-savoy cabbage with looser crinkles and a more tender texture. This cabbage is versatile, dense and ready to harvest in a small size, with the ability to get much larger if desired.
Size: 3.5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 75

Cantaloupe

Cantaloupes take some space to grow and vine, so leave enough room for them to spread. Grow cantaloupe in rows spaced 3-4' apart or in "hills" with groups of 2 or 3 plants per "hill". Cantaloupes can also be trained on a trellis or fence to save space. Cantaloupes need a constant supply of water, and particular attention should be paid during summer dry spells. They need to ripen fully on the vine; they do not ripen well after they are harvested. Cantaloupes develop a wonderful fragrance when they are ready to pick; the fruit should slip easily from the vine and the blossom end should feel soft to the touch.
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Delicious muskmelons are a nearly round (approx. 6" in diameter), very tasty, open pollinated melon with thick, firm, orange coloured flesh. Thinner skinned than hybrids, but stores well. Delicious is an excellent variety for home gardeners.
Size: 2.5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 83
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Hale's Best is an old, classic favorite dating from the 1920s. As cantaloupes go, this one is a little more drought tolerant than most. Delicious, firm flesh is rich with antioxidants. The flesh is an appealing salmon color, aromatic and sweet.
Size: 3-5 lbs
Days to Maturity: 85

Cauliflower

Cauliflower is trickier to grow in some climates than its cousin, broccoli, but the effort is well worth it. And the reward of harvesting a large, attractive head from your garden will give a great sense of satisfaction. Plants grow best in cool, moist weather. When your planting in the garden, make sure the rows are at least 15" apart. Make sure you use fertilizer frequently as cauliflower likes a good magnesium level and will show symptoms of deficiency when the soil is allowed to become too acidic.
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Amazing is a classic variety of cauliflower, which produces self-wrapping 10" heads that are bright white with deep dome. Large, dense plants are uniform and vigorous. You can also harvest these at their "baby size" or wait until they are full grown.
Size: 1.5-2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 75
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Graffiti is a very flavorful cauliflower that is a vibrant neon purple head. It even keeps its color when cooked. It is said to be one of the best purple cauliflowers on the market.
Size: 6-8"
Days To Maturity: 75-90 
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Snow Crown variety cauliflower has well-rounded, solid, white heads that measure up to 7.5" across with good depth. Plants are vigorous and extremely uniform. Snow Crown is great in both fresh and frozen uses. Excellent flavour.
Size: 2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 50

Celery

Homegrown celery is delicious raw in salads and appetizers or cooked in sauces, soups, and stews. It requires a long growing season (at least four months) and grows best in moderate temperatures. Plant your celery where it will get 6 hours of sun, but preferably somewhere that the celery plant will be shaded for the hottest part of the day. Also, make sure that where you will be growing celery has rich soil.
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Tango celery delivers yields and flavor like you've never seen before! The stalks are wonderfully crunchy and sweet, springing up from exceptionally vigorous, robust plants.
​Size: 18-20 in
Days to Maturity: 90

Cucumber

Burpless Varieties
Whether eaten in salads or prepared for pickling, cucumbers are one of the most popular vegetables raised in home gardens. Burpless cucumbers are long and slender with thin skin, thus making them easier to chew than “standard” varieties. To grow burpless cucumbers (called that because they contain low or no cucurbitacin, the compound that causes bitterness and increases one's susceptibility to 'burping' after eating the fruits), you’ll need a garden with fertile soil, ample growing space and direct sunlight.
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English Telegraph cucumbers are longer and thinner than traditional cucumbers, with very small, soft seeds. A favorite of gardeners for the burpless fruits that add a cool, mild flavor and snappy crunch to salads and sandwiches. 
Size: 12-18"
Days to Maturity: 60
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Summer Dance is a Japanese burpless variety cucumber with high resistance to downy and powdery mildew. It will also delight you with its sweet, melodious flavor. Glossy, deep-green fruits are packed with sparkling refreshment.
Size: 10"
Days to Maturity: 58
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Choose Mercury cucumbers for exceptionally early slicing cucumbers. The fruits are 8" long with thin, shiny, dark skins, and crisp, sweet, flavourful flesh. The seeds are small in a tight seed cavity.
Size: 8"
Days to Maturity: 55
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Perseus cucumbers are crunchy and delightfully juicy, with a wonderful sweet flavor. The 6" dark green fruits have thin skin and no hint of bitterness. Perseus has incredibly high disease resistance and produces very heavy yields.
Size: 6-7"
Days to Maturity: 50
Pickling Varieties
Pickling cucumbers, also known as pickled gherkins, come from the cucumis sativus plant. Traditional cucumber plants take up a lot of space in a garden, but some dwarf varieties can be grown in a smaller space or even in a pot. Pickling cucumbers are typically ready to harvest at 3-5" Don't allow the fruits to become overripe on the vine as this signals to the plant that the seed-development process is nearly complete and it will shut down. Keep mature fruits picked to encourage further production. Harvest the fruits early in the morning before the sun hits the cucumbers for the best flavor and texture.
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Bush Pickle cucumbers have a short growing season and the plants don’t grow large only (24-36"), making them ideal for small gardens. They are also excellent for container gardening. Fruits have a mild taste and are very crispy.
Size: 5"
Days to Maturity: 48
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Parisian Gherkins are an excellent mini-gherkin pickling cucumber which can be picked either at the midget size or small pickle stage and processed. The numerous black-spined cucumbers can also be enjoyed fresh in salads and slaws.
Size: 3-6"
Days to Maturity: 50
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Cool Breeze is an outstanding French cornichon pickling cucumber. The dark green cucumbers are smooth with fine white spines, at their best when harvested at 4-5" and will be seedless unless grown near other cucumbers.
Size: 4-6"
Days to Maturity: 45
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Pick a Bushel is an excellent heat tolerant pickling cucumber which can be picked at the gherkin or spear stage. The large yields of cucumbers can also be enjoyed fresh in salads and slaws. Plants can be planted in the garden or in patio containers.
Size: 3-6"
Days to Maturity: 50
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Fancipak has outstanding uniformity that are medium dark green blocky fruit. They have medium to large leaves on the vine that offer shade to the cucumbers.
Size: 4-6"
Days To Maturity: 53
Slicing Varieties
Slicing cucumbers are grown for fresh eating, and typically grow around 8" long, with smooth skin. You'll want to harvest slicing cumbers when they are between 7-9" long, and have a bright dark green color. If they get much larger than this, they'll be bitter and won't have a pleasant texture at all. When you pick your cucumbers, you should leave a small, one inch, section of stem attached to the cucumber. This helps prevent the stem end from rotting in storage if you won't be using the cucumber right away.
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Dominator is a dark green cucumber with good size and shape. It is a dependable and widely adapted in all growing conditions. Has great quality, consistent production with high yields.
Size: 8-9"
Days To Maturity: 60
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A cucumber superstar, Straight Eight is a classic that has excellent flavor and is widely adapted. Smooth, straight, deep-green fruits with rounded blunt ends. Pick when 8" long for top flavor. Best grown on a fence or on a trellis.
Size: 7-8"
Days to Maturity: 63

Eggplant

Eggplant is not only a wonderfully international food, it's also versatile. Add it to soups and pasta dishes or use it as the basis for hearty meatless casseroles and other entrees. Vegetarians value its rich, deep flavor as an excellent substitute for meat. The elegantly shaped, often gorgeously colored, glossy fruits vary from large oval teardrop-shape to small round grape size. And the mature color can range from white to purple, pink, striped, green, or orange. The plant needs heat and humidity to grow well.
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Millionaire’s extra-early maturity and high productivity will make you feel like you’ve hit the jackpot. The healthy, upright plants produce extraordinary harvests of deep purple, slender fruit, 8" long. This exquisite Japanese variety is tender and delicious with a minimal seed cavity.
Size: 7-8"
Days to Maturity: 54
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Black Beauty produces 4-6 fruits but it has a great quality of the more you harvest the more it will produce. The eggplants are large oval in size that are tasty and dark purple.
Size: 8-10"
Days to Maturity: 70-85

Ground Cherry

Don’t let the name fool you, groundcherries have very little in common with those red treats whose blossoms inspire festivals. In fact they’re part of the nightshade family and are related to tomatillos and Chinese lanterns. These marble-sized, orangey fruits have a unique flavour, which is sometimes described as tasting similar to anything from pineapple or cherry to kiwi and tomato.
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Yellow groundcherries produce a sweet, small 0.5”, yellow fruit inside a thin papery husk. Produces a large bush habit plant. Fruits drop to the ground when fully ripe. Great choice for pies and preserves.
Fruit Size: 0.5"
Days to Maturity: 70

Honey Dew

When growing honey dew melons, it's important to keep the weeds under control during the growing season as they compete with plants for water, space and nutrients. Honey dews have a shallow root system, so mulches help retain soil moisture and maintain even soil temperatures. Keep plants well-watered during the growing season, especially during dry spells. Honey dew melons are ripe when the skin turns to a creamy yellow color and the blossom end is slightly soft.
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Diplomat honey dew produces extra early melons. Nice round fruits that have sparce net. Green flesh has a great taste and texture.
Size: 4-5lb
Days To Maturity: 64 

Kale

Kale is an excellent green vegetable for cold-weather cooking. It's best known as an attractive garnish, but the mild-flavor greens are also a highly nutritious addition to salads, stir-fries, steamed vegetable dishes, soups, and stews. Unlike so many other greens, they keep much of their shape even when cooked, adding texture to any dish. Leaves may be blue-green, green, or burgundy in color, and ruffled, curly, deeply cut, or flat in form. Kale grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade as well. Plants that receive fewer than 6 hours of sun daily will not be as stocky or leafy as those that get ample sun, but they will still be plenty edible! Color and flavor improve with cool weather.
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Winterbor kale is extremely frost hardy. Plants are very tall and extremely productive with thick, very curly, ruffled, blue-green leaves and are full of flavour. This variety makes an excellent salad when the leaves are chopped finely and used raw.
Size: 24-36"
Days to Maturity: 60

Kohlrabi

Resembling a spaceship or satellite, the swollen stem or "bulb" of kohlrabi develops just above the soil line. The crisp, sweet flesh resembles that of turnip and is used about the same way. Peel, slice, and eat the bulb fresh, or dice and cook it in soups and stews. Kohlrabi grows best in mild weather. Harvest the kohlrabi when the first stem is 1" in diameter. Kohlrabi can be continuously harvested, up until the stems are 2-3" in diameter.
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The flavor of the Early White Vienna kohlrabi is mild, sweet and turnip-like. It has round, above-ground "bulbs" with light green, smooth skin and has a creamy white, tender flesh. They are superb whether served raw or steamed.
Size: 6-8"
Days to Maturity: 55

Leek

Leeks are like delicate onions. They add their rich but subtle flavor to everything from creamy sauces to soups and stews. They're a must for any food enthusiast's garden. The best place for growing Leeks is in full sun in fertile, well-drained soil. When planting Leeks in the garden, make a shallow trench (about 4-5" deep) and place the plants inside, spacing about 6" apart and covering with only a light amount of soil. This frost-hardy plant can be harvested long after many other garden vegetables.
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A perfect variety of leek for the home gardener. American Flag has thick, 3" wide, blue-green leaves with large, 10-15" long, creamy white stems. Delicious in soups, stir fries, salads and stews. Very cold hardy. Heirloom variety.
Size: 10-15"
Days to Maturity: 105

Lettuce

With very little space, growing lettuce gives you a steady supply of wonderful salads from earliest spring until past frost. You can grow in in your garden or in containers. You'll have only a short hiatus in the hottest parts of summer, when this cool-season vegetable stops producing. Lettuce comes in four basic types: crisphead, butterhead, loose-leaf, and romaine. Crisphead types are also called iceberg. Butterhead lettuces form smaller, looser heads. Loose-leaf lettuce has an open growth pattern and doesn't form a head. Romaine lettuce forms upright, cylindrical heads. Lettuce grows best at cool temperatures.
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Buttercrunch is an extremely popular butterhead lettuce with a luscious, buttery texture. The soft heads are creamy-yellow inside and has some heat tolerance. Best used in cooler regions. Best used directly after picking.
Height: 9-15"
Width: 6"
Days to Maturity: 60
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Great Lakes 659 produces high yields of large crisphead lettuce with crenated leaf edges and a heavy closed head. Very flavourful and never bitter. The crisp leaves are perfect for sandwiches, salads and garnishes. Very slow to bolt! Stores well if kept cool.
Height: 5-10"
Width: 12"
Days to Maturity: 83
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Parris Island Cos is the classic romaine lettuce. Its compact, dark green rosette of tall, upright leaves is slightly curly with white hearts and has a crisp, sweet flavor. Slow to bolt. Grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade.
Height: 12"
Width: 12"
Days to Maturity: 75

Onion

Bunching Varieties
Commonly known as scallions or green onions, bunching onions are bulbless types with a milder flavour than many larger onions. They are highly versatile and can be eaten raw, or cooked in soups, salads, dips, stir-fries and more. Bunching onions are very hardy. When planting, space the bunches 2" apart; they tolerate close spacing because they don't need from for bulbs. Pull any weeds from the bed as soon as they appear, because onions compete poorly with weeds. Harvest the bunching onions once the bulbs are 1-2" in diameter. Loosen the soil around each bulb and lift if from the soil, taking care not to break the leaves.
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Ishikura is a green bunching onion that is long and narrow with a tender, mildly pungent taste. Adapts well to climate and growing conditions.
Size: 12-16"
Days to Maturity: 40-60
Red Varieties
Red onions feature red or purple skins surrounding red and white interior layers. Red onions require the same planting and harvesting care as other onions. Red onions are most often used in salads, salsas, and other raw preparations for their color and relatively mild flavor. The lovely red color becomes washed out during cooking. If you find their flavor to astringent for eating raw, try soaking them in water before serving.
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Red Nugent is an early maturing, long day onion with dark red skin that delivers excellent interior quality, good bolt tolerance, good uniformity and early yields. Red Nugent has a 5-6 month storage potential. Works great in salads and on burgers!
Size: 3 lbs
Days to Maturity: 113
Spanish Varieties
A Spanish onion is a type of onion that is typically about the size of a softball, has a fine grain, and a yellow or white skin. It's known for its very mild flavor, with many people finding it sweet enough to eat raw. Though Spanish onions don't keep very well, they are versatile enough to work in many different types of dishes. They are also popular with home gardeners, since they produce a lot of fruit but are also pretty. 
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​With Candy's strong root system and disease resistance, these are the perfect onions for anyone that has not had much success with this vegetable. Candy has an extra sweet and the perfect mild flavour and long-lasting storage quality.
Size: 2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 90
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The White Sweet Spanish onions have large globes with single centers and firm, mild flesh. Great for your favourite onion ring recipe. It has a sweet flavour and very little of the sharpness that some onions have. Stores really well. 
Size: 2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 120
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Riverside Sweet Spanish is a jumbo 5" onion with high yields. It has an crisp, juicy, firm, sweet flavor. They are great for fresh eating as well as for storage. 
Size: 2lbs
Days to Maturity: 115
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Walla Walla onions are famous for their size and sweetness. Harvest the golden-skinned bulbs early for mildest flavor. Walla Walla is best used for fresh eating, cooking or freezing. Performs exceptionally well in the North. Stores really well.
Size: 2 lbs
Days to Maturity: 125

Pepper

Sweet Varieties 
Bell pepper fruits are grown in a rainbow of fascinating colors: green, white, yellow, red, orange, and chocolate brown. Green fruits are actually immature peppers. If you leave them on the plant, they eventually will develop one of the other colors, most commonly red, and become sweeter. Bell peppers are being hailed as a superfood, low in calories, high in flavor, and vitamins A, C, and other nutrients. Bell peppers need temperatures above 16°C to grow well. It's best to protect plants from cold temperatures.
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Ace is a early, heavy yielding sweet pepper. It is a great choice for our summers as it holds flowers in adverse weather conditions, allowing it to still produce in our short, cooler summers. Matures when green, but if left on plant will turn red.
Size: 3-4"
Days to Maturity: 55-60
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Golden California Wonder are colourful golden bells that are very sweet and tasty. Gold peppers are superb for fresh eating as well a great for kitchen or market gardens. The productive plants produce early & are good for the North.
Size: 5"
Days to Maturity: 78
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​Purple peppers are always a favorite, as they are so colorful. Purple Beauty peppers produce loads of beautiful bells on compact, bushy plants. Crisp texture and mild, sweet flavor makes this one popular with everyone.
Size: 4"
Days to Maturity: 75
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Baron peppers are giant bells that look even larger than ever on plants so compact they grow comfortably in containers! Pick them green or let them mature to rich red, when their vitamin content is at its peak.
Size: 4-5"
Days to Maturity: 80
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The King of the North red bell pepper is the best variety for northern gardens where the seasons are cool and short. Full-figured, uniform fruits are excellent for stuffing or fresh eating and have a great, sweet flavor.
Size: 4"
Days to Maturity: 70
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Even after more than 70 years, Sweet Banana peppers are still an extremely popular chili pepper. Large, pointed fruits measure 7-8" long and 1.5" across. The yellow peppers ultimately turn brilliant red. A favorite for pickling.
Scoville Rating: 100-500
Size: 4-6"
Days to Maturity: 72
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Bright Star produces bright orange bell peppers with pleasant, sweet, crisp flavour. Produces blocky, 3-4”, mostly 4 lobed fruits. One of the best orange varieties for the home garden.
Size: 3-4"
Days to Maturity: 75
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Peppi Cornissimo is a extra large corno-shaped sweet pepper. It has thick walls with a rich sweet flavor. They start off being green ripening to red. A really nice feature of this pepper is that its seedless when planted alone, if its isolated it will contain a few seeds.
Size: 6-7" long
Day to Maturity: 95-100
Hot Varieties
Fiery hot peppers are easy plants to grow in great variety. There are many different types, each bearing fruits with varying degrees of heat. The plants take up little space, so plant several and decide which you like best. (They're excellent in containers - and attractive!) ancho or poblano peppers are mildly hot and often used for stuffing. Jalapenos are several times hotter. Tabasco peppers are up to 50 times hotter, and habaneros are 100 times hotter.
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Carolina Reaper is officially the hottest pepper in the world ranked by Guinness Records. Its a fiery red fruit with a unique little stinger tail on the bottom of the fruit. Surprisingly it has a nice flavor if you can get over the heat. 
CAUTION: Use rubber gloves or clean hot peppers under running water to avoid skin burn from the pepper juice.
Scoville Rating: 1,500,000-2,200,000
Size: 2"
Days to Maturity: 120
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​The Hungarian Yellow Wax Hot is a bright yellow medium hot pepper averages 5.5" long and 1.5" wide. The fruit is smooth, waxy and tapers. 
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. ​
Scoville Rating: 5,000-15,000
Size: 5.5"
Days to Maturity: 67
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Raam is an early jalapeno pepper, producing 5-7 days earlier than other varieties. 2.5” fruits on compact plants mature green to red.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.
Scoville Rating: 1,000-5,000
Size: 3"
Days to Maturity: 65
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Super Chili peppers are very productive, semi-compact plants that produce upward-facing, cone-shaped chili peppers with a spicy flavor.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. 
Scoville Rating: 40,000-50,000
Size: 3"
Days to Maturity: 75
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Ghost (Bhut Jolokia Red) is the original hot pepper that started the craze of hot peppers. It is know to be one of the hottest chilli type peppers in the world. 
CAUTION: Use rubber gloves or clean hot peppers under running water to avoid skin burn from the pepper juice.
Scoville Rating: 1,000,000
Size: 2.5-3.25"
Days to Maturity: 100
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Jalapeno M is a dark green bullet shaped fruit. They have a thick wall that is pungent sweet hot flavor. If you allow them to fully ripen to red they will get hotter.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.
Scoville Rating: 2,500-8,000
Size: 3"
Days to Maturity: 75
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Rey Pakal is a habanero pepper that originates from Jamacia. Fruit is medium to dark red that are uniformed and extremely hot. It can be a high yielding pepper.
​CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.
Scoville Rating: 200,000
Size: 1.5-2.5"
Days to Maturity: 90
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Trinidad Scorpion peppers are one of the hottest in the world! Native to the country of Trinidad and Tobago hints the name. It has wrinkled, lantern-shaped fruit matures to deep red. Has a fruit-like flavour. 
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. 
Scoville Rating: 1,550,000-2,000,000
Size: 1.5-2"
Days to Maturity: 90
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Habanero Red peppers have a delicious, pungent, smoky quality unlike any other pepper. Great in sauces and salsas. 
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. 
Scoville Rating: 150,000-325,000
Size: 1-2.5"
Days to Maturity: 80
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Long Red Cayenne peppers are very hot fruits that are 5" long and 0.5" thick. Use them fresh or they can easily be dried. 
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. 
Scoville Rating: 30,000-50,000
Size: 5"
Days to Maturity: 72
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Scotch Bonnet peppers are popular in Caribbean cooking and hot sauces. The fruit is petite, stumpy, bulb shaped that a fruity, fiery taste. Matures from green to orange/yellow to red. 
​CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.
Scoville Rating: 100,000-350,000
Size: 2"
​Days to Maturity: 100
Novelty Varieties
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Anaheim peppers are long, tapered flat fruit that is green maturing to deep red when ripe. A mild medium-sized chili pepper. Use these peppers fresh or dried.  They are great for roasting.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. ​
Scoville Rating: 2,500
Size: 4-6"
Days to Maturity: 80
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​Trident poblano peppers are glossy, firm and straight. Fruit is extra large compared to other poblano peppers. Good for fresh and dried use. Plants perform well in a wide range of soils. 
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. 
Scoville Rating: 250-1,500
Size: 1.5"
Days to Maturity: 65
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Mad Hatter is from the bishops crown family. It has unique shape of a flat disc resembling a hat. Its fruit has a crisp, crunchie, sweet and citrus flavor. With a floral smell. It is a very productive and high yielding plant. Best known for using in pepper jelly jams but also makes a nice snack when down in the garden.
Size: 2-3.5"
​Days to Maturity:  75-90
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Sweet Paprika is the preferred pepper for drying to make paprika powder. The fruit is sweet, long and thin walled allowing it to dry quickly. Harvest peppers when they are dark red and hang to dry.
Size: 4"
Days to Maturity: 75

Pumpkin

Pumpkins are from the winter squash family. They are grown for culinary and decorative purposes. Behind the pumpkins thick shell contains there flesh and edible seeds. Pumpkin pie is quite popular in Canada and USA for Thanksgiving Day dessert. They are also used for autumn and fall decor. A kids favorite is making jack-o-lantern's for Halloween. Great for storage as well.
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Dill's Atlantic Giant is the grand-daddy of all giant pumpkins. The present-day record, for this variety is an amazing 2009 lbs Used mainly for fairs and pumpkin competitions. Also perfect for huge jack o'lanterns and fall displays!
Size: 400-500 lbs
Days to Maturity: 130
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Enjoy the ghostly white, smooth, clean skins of Super Moon pumpkins. Plant in full sun, in fertile soil with enough space to allow the indeterminate five foot long vines to take hold. Expect two to four fruits per plant. Great for carving as well as eating!
Size: 25-30 lbs
Days to Maturity: 90
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Griffin is a big and tall carving pumpkin. As its a taller variety it makes a nice backdrop for decorative displays. It has a smooth and glossy skin with a nice big dark green stem. 
Size: 14-40 lbs
Days to Maturity: 115
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Small Sugar pumpkins are one of the best for making the Thanksgiving favourite - pumpkin pie. It is a very prolific and handsome little pumpkin; usual size about 10" in diameter. It is very fine-grained, sweet and sugary, and keeps well.
​Size: 5-8 lbs
Days to Maturity: 100

Squash - Winter

Colorful, curvaceous and a cinch to store, winter squash is one of the most nutritious crops you can grow, and these spectacular fruits hold their vitamins throughout their long storage life. Types of winter squash include: acorn, butternut, spaghetti and sweet dumpling. Fruits are ripe for harvesting if you cannot easily pierce the rind with your fingernail. Never rush to harvest winter squash, though, because immature fruits won’t store well. Unless freezing weather threatens them, allow fruits to ripen until the vines begin to die back.
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Early Butternut is earlier to mature than older butternut varieties, with a very sweet, nutty flavor. The fine-textured fruits arise on compact vines. This fruit stores superbly. Harvest it when the plants die back or just before frost.
Size: 10-12 in.
Days to Maturity: 85
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Royal Ace produces big yields of high quality acorn squash. The fruit are uniform for size and shape and have an attractive dark green colour. The large semi-bush plants have thick foliage, but their resistance to powdery mildew are second to none.
Size: 4-7"
Days to Maturity: 90
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​Grow your own spaghetti! Vegetable Spaghetti squash is delicious served with spaghetti sauce. When baked or boiled, flesh comes out in long strings that look just like spaghetti. Fruit weigh about 3-4 lbs. Rind is hard, medium yellow and smooth.
Size: 8-10"
Days to Maturity: 70
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Tomatillo

If you love to eat Mexican food, grow Tomatillos! Resembling tiny green Tomatoes, they have a delightfully citrusy, acidic flavor that's wonderful in salsas for dipping and sauces for cooking, as in chile verde. Grow Tomatillos as you would Tomatoes. Plant in rich soil after danger of spring frost has passed. Cage or stake plants to keep fruit off the ground. The 2-3 in. diameter fruits will develop inside intriguing papery husks.
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Grande Rio Verde produces high yields of 3 oz fruits. It is a round, green fruit inclosed in a green papery husk. It has a interesting flavor, its tart and citrus. Great for making salsa verde or in mexican cusine.
Size: 3oz
Days to Maturity: 75

Tomato

Beefsteak Varieties
Beefsteak tomatoes are aptly named as they are large, thickly fleshed fruits. Growing beefsteak tomatoes requires a heavy cage or stakes to support the often 1 lb fruit. Beefsteak tomato varieties are late maturing. The beefsteak tomato plant produces classic slicing tomatoes that your family will love.
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Big Beef tomatoes are extra large, ruby red tomatoes that are firm, juicy and highly flavored. Big Beef offers a very heavy yield that will produce right up until frost. This tomato plant will need to be staked. Disease resistant.
Size: 10-12 oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 73
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Primo Red has large, firm, deep red fruit with smooth mild flavour. This determinate hybrid grows on a compact open plant and will supply you with numerous uniformly sized tomatoes that make for an easy harvest. Good eating quality.
Size: 8-12 oz
Determinate

Days to Maturity: 64
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Brandywine Pink, which dates back to 1885, is the heirloom tomato standard. One taste and you'll be enchanted by its superb flavor and luscious shade of red-pink. The large, beefsteak-shaped fruits grow on unusually upright plants.
Size: 14 oz
Heirloom, Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 85
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Bush Beefsteak is a wonderful, compact, prolific, short bushy plant (up to 3'). It yields huge amounts of very early producing globe-shaped beefsteak tomatoes in clusters. Bush Beefsteak is a very popular variety for shorter growing regions.
Size: 8 oz
Determinate

Days to Maturity: 62
Slicer Varieties
What could taste better than a perfect red garden tomato still warm from the sun? Tomatoes are the most popular homegrown vegetable for good reason. Tomatoes need heat, water, and fertile soil to grow their best. Wait until after danger of frost has passed to set out transplants, provide regular water throughout the growing season, and fertilize monthly to ensure abundant harvests.
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Bush Champion is one of the best varieties for small space gardens and containers, bar none. Excellent for fresh eating. Compact plants grow to just 24" tall, producing extra-early yields of big fruits with excellent flavor. Good disease resistance.
Size: 9-12 oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 65
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​With a more intense, meaty, and slightly tangy taste distinguishing it from the red varieties, Lemon Boy tomatoes are addictive! The lemon-yellow fruits are both juicy and meaty and easy to slice for sandwiches or cut up small for salads.
Size: 7 oz
Indeterminate, Low Acid
Days to Maturity: 72
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​Prairie Pride tomatoes are abundant, flavourful and have a low acid content. These bush-type, medium-sized fruit grow on sturdy, compact plants. They were first produced at the University of Manitoba by George Luther. Determinant variety.
Size: 6 oz
​Indeterminate, Low Acid
Days to Maturity: 55
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Whopping Red is a slicer tomato with large bright red fruit. Its juicy with a flavourful taste said to be a little sweeter than normal tomatoes. It makes a great all around tomato to add to your lineup in the garden.
Size: 10-12oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 70
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​Bush Early Girl tomatoes are an extra-large, extra-early tomato which grows on a true bush. The 18" tall plants are amazingly compact and self-supporting, yet productive. Outstanding juicy flavour! Multiple disease resistances.
Size: 6.5-7.5 oz
Determinate
Days to Maturity: 63
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The Manitoba heirloom tomato was developed for the prairies of Canada. this hearty northern Tomato is rich and meaty, well suited to slicing and preserving. It produces well and early in the season. It has a tangy, refreshing taste.
Size: 6 oz
Heirloom, Determinate
Days to Maturity: 70
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Super Fantastic tomato plants produce hardy vigorous vines that adapt well to a variety of climates. These large (3-4" diameter), rich and meaty tomatoes are very versatile – great for slicing, canning, drying and salsas. Very prolific yields.
Size: 10 oz
Indeterminate

Days to Maturity: 70
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​Celebrity is a superior all-around tomato with fantastic disease resistance. These determinate plants are exceptionally strong, bearing masses of large, smooth, round, bright red tomatoes. They're very uniform and resistant to cracking.
Size: 8 oz
Semi-Determinate
Days to Maturity: 72
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Enjoy fresh tomatoes on the patio or deck with this little charmer! A favorite for 50 years now, Patio sets masses of small, round, perfectly sweet tomatoes over a 2-month season. You'll love its ultra-compact habit and generous yields.
Size: 4 oz
Determinate

Days to Maturity: 70
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Super Sonic produces heavy yields of large, firm, meaty oblate, great tasting fruits. They are resistance to cracking with good quality. 
Size: 12oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 75
Plum/Paste Varieties
If you are a fan of fresh tomato sauce, you should be growing plum tomatoes in your garden. Plum tomatoes are a paste tomato. These tomatoes generally have a thicker fruit wall, fewer seeds and a denser but more grainy flesh. Plum tomatoes tend to be oblong in shape and heavy for their size. The also tend to be more firm than a non-plum or paste tomato.
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Amish Paste tomatoes produce large, heavy fruit that will reward your growing efforts with the richest sauces and thickest pastes. The deep red flesh is firm, not too juicy and the taste is a fine balance between sweet and rich. Makes a great salsa.
Size: 8 oz
Heirloom, Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 75
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Juliet cherry tomatoes offer heavy yields of sweet, true red, oblong fruits. They arise in big clusters amid good foliage protection. Many grape tomatoes tend to split before maturity, but Juliet remains attractive and glossy longer than others.
Size: 1 oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 60
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​Golden Rave tomatoes are a baby golden roma with excellent flavour. One third the size of traditional roma types.
Size: 0.75 oz
Determinate, Low Acid
Days to Maturity: 74
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​​Mamma Mia is a meatier, firmer fleshed fruit, just right for a thick and rich spaghetti sauce, or for salsa and any other recipes requiring a rich tomato taste. Large (5"), pear shaped fruit. These plants are high-yielding and will require staking.
Size: 4 oz
Indeterminate

Days to Maturity: 60
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Health Kick is a breakthrough in breeding; this tomato is actually healthier for you than others you can grow. Packed with the 50% more of the antioxidant lycopene, this prolific tomato produces a bountiful crop of sweet red fruits.
Size: 4 oz
Days to Maturity: 72
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Roma VF tomatoes are popular for canning or for making your own tomato sauce, juice, soups or for hydrating. Good for fresh eating as well. Plants bear dozens of plum shaped fruit which have meaty interiors and very few seeds. Does not require staking.
Size: 2 oz
Determinate

Days to Maturity: 75
Cherry Varieties
Cherry tomatoes (sometimes called grape or saladette tomatoes) are small and great for making salsas or for using in salads. Although the fruit is small, cherry tomatoes are still full-sized tomato plants, so be prepared to grow them as such. Most of these tomatoes will require staking or caging to do well. Spacing should be 24-36" apart (in all directions) and stakes or cages should support the plant and individual stems as needed. Once tomatoes begin to appear, they begin to really crowd in there, so be ready for a large harvest.
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As the name indicates, Lunch Box tomatoes are small and have a good balance of sweetness. They’re slightly larger than typical cherry tomatoes but not as big as full-size tomatoes. But don’t let their size deceive you - there’s lots to love about these little guys!
Size: 3 oz
Indeterminate
Days to Maturity: 75
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​Sweet Million cherry tomatoes are easy to grow, and hardy plants adapt well to many climates. Tall vigorous vines grow masses of gorgeous red cherry tomatoes on long trusses. Sweet Million matures early and delivers incredible yields.
Size: 0.5 oz
Indeterminate

Days to Maturity: 60
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Topsy Tom is a early, compact plant produces high yields of 1" round cherry tomatoes. They are very sweet and flavorful. They are great for salads or fresh eating right off the plant. The plant holds an abundant amount of fruit and are wind tolerant.
Size: .5 oz
Semi-Determinate

Days to Maturity: 50
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Many cherry tomatoes look great but taste like nothing, while others are flavorful but don't have the big yields we all love. Well, Sugary has it all - super-sweet flavor, a fun new shape, and huge yields on plants that just keep growing!
Size: 0.5 oz
Semi-Determinate

Days to Maturity: 85
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Rapunzel tomatoes, just like its fairy tale namesake, puts out long, cascading trusses, each with up to 40 sweet, bright red cherry tomatoes that keep coming all summer long. Can be enjoyed individually as they ripen. Perfect for salads.
Size: 0.75-1 oz
Indeterminate

Days to Maturity: 70
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​Most yellow cherry tomatoes are grown mainly for their colour, not taste, but Sweet Gold has both! These glossy 1" tomatoes are delicious eaten right from the vine, enjoyed for snacks, or for adorning summer salads and stir fries.
Size: 0.3-0.6 oz
Indeterminate, Low Acid

Days to Maturity: 60
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​Tiny Tim dwarf plants (approx. 12" tall) are literally loaded with small, firm, red fruit about 1" in diameter. The fruit is juicy and has a very good sweet/tart tomato flavours. Tiny Tim is extremely early requires no staking.
Size: 0.5 oz
Determinate

Days to Maturity: 55

Watermelon

Watermelon is a warm season fruit loved by just about everyone. They are great sliced, in fruit salads, and the rind is even used hollowed out as a serving basket or bowl. Understanding the best growing conditions for watermelons will help you grow this wonderful fruit. Like their cantaloupe cousins, watermelons demand 2-3 months of heat to produce ripe fruit, which makes growing watermelons in northern regions challenging, but not impossible. One tip would be to grow the vines in raised rows, known as hills, to ensure good drainage and help hold the sun’s heat longer. Space the plants about 2' apart in a 5' wide hill. 
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Crimson Sweet

Crimson Sweet watermelons are a pretty, light green melon with darker green stripes. Crimson Sweet is famous for its high sugar content and great flavor. Give vines plenty of room to run, spreading up to 10'. High in lycopene.
Size: 15-25 lbs
Days to Maturity: 85
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Sugar Baby

Sugar Baby watermelons are small and round; known as an icebox type because it is petite enough to fit in the refrigerator. This widely adapted heirloom variety is solid, very dark green on the outside with a bright red flesh that is super sweet.
Size: 8-10 lbs
Days to Maturity: 75
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Yellow Doll

Yellow Doll is probably the earliest of all watermelons. Melons are round with a thin rind of deep green with lighter stripes. Flesh is bright yellow and unusually sweet and delicious. Can be grown on a trellis where space is limited.
Size: 5-7 lbs
Days to Maturity: 70

Zuchinni

Summer squash is fast and easy to grow and are amoung the most productive vegetables in the garden. The most popular summer squash is the zucchini, but many more varieties are available: yellow, pattypan, crookneck and many more! Ideally, summer squash is best consumed when its skin is soft and tender, often being ready to harvest within 40-60 days.
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Golden Zebra zucchini are buttery yellow, cylindrical fruits with flavorful, meaty flesh. These brightly coloured plants are easy to see in their big bushy plants for picking. Harvest often at about 7-8" to encourage additional fruits.
Size: 7-8"
Days to Maturity: 55
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No more scratched arms or damaged fruit from gingerly poking among sharp spines to harvest the zucchini! Spineless Beauty zucchini offers medium green fruit on open plants. Ripens during the hot summer months and is best eaten fresh.
Size: 7.5-8 in
Days to Maturity: 48

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