National Garden Bureau announces the newest varieties for home gardeners for 2017. Grow the best in vegetables/edibles!

1. Vegetables/Edibles
New Varieties For 2017

2. Basil Pesto Party
• Abundance of leaves that offer
sweet Italian basil flavor
• Perfect for fresh pesto and salads
• Ocimum basilicum
W. Atlee Burpee & CO.

3. Beet Fresh Start F1
• Grown only for the
leaves (it does not form a
root)
• Crunchy texture pairs
well with any kind of
dressing
• Beta vulgaris
Sakata

4. Beet Golden Boy
• Mild beet that doesn't
stain like reds!
• Stunning golden-orange
• Sweetest and most tender
when young
• Beta vulgaris
Botanical Interests Inc

5. Beet
Gourmet
Blend
• A mix of Detroit Dark Red,
Golden Detroit, White Albino
and Chioggia.
• Beta vulgaris
Terra Organics, LLC

6. Brussels Sprouts Dagan
• Tall plants have firm,
smooth sprouts of excellent
quality
• Blue-green plants do not
easily lodge
• Beta vulgaris
Bejo Seeds

7. Carrot Rainbow Blend
• A kaleidoscope of carrots,
colorful mixture of five
varieties of baby carrot
• Great for all specialty and
farming markets
• Daucus carota
Seeds by Design, Inc.

8. Chinese Cabbage Suzuko
• Tall barrel-shaped heads
have a deep vibrant green
and white exterior and bright
yellow interior
• Texture is crisp with a
refreshing
• Brassica rapa
Bejo Seeds, Inc.

9. Corn Neon Pink
• Filled with bright dark pink
kernels
• It is a great ornamental but
can be used for a popcorn
• Zea mays
Terra Organics, LLC

10. Cucumber Eversweet F1
• Green slicing cucumber with
robust semi trailing vines
• Can be enjoyed at a
younger stage
• Cucumis sativus
Terra Organics, LLC

11. Fennel Antares F1
• Luscious and fleshy bulbs,
healthy foliage
• Very pleasing anise flavor,
tender scales without
stringiness
• Foeniculum Vulgare
All-America Selections

12. Kale Prizm F1
• Small leaves are tender
enough to enjoy in fresh
salads and can also hold up
to cooking
• Quick to re-leaf
• Brassica oleracea var.
sabellica
Syngenta Flowers Inc.

13. Kohlrabi Konan F1
• Smooth, globe-shaped bulbs
that are the perfect size
• Sweet flavorful bulb that
has an excellent texture!
• Brassica oleracea
Bejo Seeds, Inc.

14. Lettuce Mottistone MTO
• Crisp outer leaves before
forming its sweet, flavorful
heads
•Wide maroon speckles
decorate the deep green
leaves
•Lactuca sativa
Harris Seeds

15. Lettuce Sweet Valentine
• Brilliant red on both sides of
the leaves
• Lower half of each leaf is
apple-green
• Lactuca sativa
Seeds By Design

16. Okra Candle Fire F1
• Suitable for both fruit and
Ornamental usage
• Dry seed can be used as
coffee
• Abelmoschus esculentus
All-American Selections

17. Onion Blush F1
• A unique long-day storage
onion with blush pink-tinted
skins
• Fairly easy onion to grow
• Allium cepa
Johnny’s Selected Seeds

18. Pea Patio Pride
• Wonderful in containers or
planted as small low hedge
• Compact
• Pisum sativum
All-America Selections

19. Pepper Mad Hatter F1
• Produces many crunchy fruit
which have an unusual disc
shape with wings
• Can be eaten at any stage
• Capsicum baccatum
All-America Selections

20. Pepper Nikita
• Begin creamy yellow,
eventually developing coral-
colored streaks
• Sweet and delicious at any
stage
• Capsicum annuum
Territorial Seed Company

21. Pepper Takara F1
• Mild but rich flavor
• Toss Takara with a tiny bit of
oil and cook on the grill or in
a pan
• Capsicum annuum
Sakata America

22. Radish Fiesta Blend
• These radish varieties:
Hailstone, Scarlet Globe,
Sparkler, Purple Plum and
Golden Helios.
• Raphanus sativus
Seeds by Design, Inc.

23. Squash Honeybaby F1
• Miniature dark orange
fleshed butternut squash
• Great tasting and healthy
Fall treat in container
• Cucurbita mushata
All-America Selections

24. Squash Mashed Potatoes F1
• Bright white rind and a low
sugar, low carbohydrate flesh
• Flesh when baked and
fluffed has the consistency of
mashed potatoes
• Cucurbita spp.
Harris Seeds/GardenTrends

25. Strawberry Delizz® F1
• Abundant harvest during
whole growing season of
delicious strawberries
•Fragaria F. x ananassa
ABZ Seeds

26. Sweet Corn Inferno F1
• Some of the best eating
quality you’ll find in an early
mid-season
• Dark green husks and
plentiful flags offer excellent
cover
• Zea mays
Harris Seeds/ GardenTrends

27. Tomato Braveheart F1
• Very prolific and crack
resistant with excellent flavor
• Fruit are small and ripen to
a brilliant red
• Solanum lycopersicum
Sakata America

28. Tomato Damsel F1
• Little to no pruning
• Flavor is comparable to pink
heirlooms, sweet and tangy
with slightly firmer texture
• Solanum lycopersicum
Johnny’s Selected Seeds

29. Tomato Chef’s Choice Yellow
• Very Large yields of 12-14
ounce yellow beefsteak
tomatoes
• Perfect acid to sugar
balance
• Solanum lycopersicum
All-America Selections

30. Tomato Giant
Garden Paste F1
• Cross between a Beefsteak
tomato and a Roma Tomato
• It is juicer than other Paste
varieties and very meaty!
• Solanum lycopersicum
Park Seed

31. Tomato Gladiator F1
• Unbeatable armor of vigor,
flavor, aroma and yield
•Solanum lycopersicum
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.

32. Tomato Lady Bug F1
• Small red-fruited cherry
tomato
• Excellent sweet flavor
• Lycopersicon esculentum
Terra Organics, LLC

33. Tomato Oxheart
• An heirloom variety popular
because it is dense with few
seeds
• Star sliced fresh atop salad
greens or paired with
mozzarella
• Solanum lycopersicum
Botanical Interests

34. Tomato Patio Choice Red F1
• Great determinate tomato
for containers
• Produce generous
amounts of bright red
rounded fruit
• Lycopersicon esculentum
Seeds by Design Inc.

35. Tomato Patio Choice Yellow F1
• Perfect mild flavored cherry
tomato that sets over 100
fruit
• Beautiful tomatoes fresh or
sun dried
• Lycopersicon lycopersicum
All-America Selections

36. Tomato Pink-a-licious F1
• Perfect go-to "all purpose"
tomato
• A wonderful balance of
sugar to acid that brings a
juiciness to its great flavor
• Lycopersicon lycopersicum
Syngenta Flowers Inc.

37. Tomato Take 2
• Ideal space savers
• A slicer and a cherry for
summer-long harvests from
one hardworking container!
•Solanum lycopersicum
W. Atlee Burpee & CO.

38. Watermelon Grandeur F1
• If you are looking for a large
Crimson Sweet type look no
more
• Fruit weigh up to 30 pounds
•Citrullus lanatus
Seeds by Design Inc.

39. Watermelon Mini Love F1
• Personal-size, hybrid,
seeded watermelon
• Crimson Sweet type rind
pattern and a sweet, crisp,
red flesh that contains very
few seeds
• Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus
All-America Selections