This document provides descriptions of various vegetable varieties suitable for the home garden, including information on plant characteristics, growth habits, yields, and days to maturity. Some highlights include: - Diplotaxis tenuifolia, an annual plant with crisp, spicy leaves that can be used to infuse salads or make sauces. - Phaseolus vulgaris 'Romano', a bean variety with exceptional eating quality and upright bush habit suited for ease of harvesting. - Apium graveolens, a celery variety known for long red stalks that stay colored when cooked and can also be used for its seeds as a spice. - Cucumis sativus, a pickling

2. •Crisp spicy flavor
•Annual plant for sun or shade
•Low growing plants perform
wonderfully in containers
•Harvest 45 days from sowing seed
•Diplotaxis tenuifolia

3. •Infuses salads with a big spicy kick
•Puree the leaves for a spicy green
sauce or add pizzazz to a pizza
•Annual grows in full to part sun
•Harvest 35-49 days from sowing seed
•Eruca sativa

4. •Soon to become the next standard for
Romano-type beans
•Exceptional eating quality enhanced
by low fiber
•Upright bush habit for ease of harvest
•Phaseolus vulgaris

5. •Vigorous bush habit
•Huge yields of straight, 5-7” long pods
•Produces quality dark green pods later
in the season than other beans
•Staking not required
•Phaseolus vulgaris

6. •Now available to home gardeners!
•Tender and mild from stem to top
•Harvest central shoot first and the
plant will set 3-5 side shoots
•Matures 60 days from transplant
•Brassica oleracea

7. •True culinary delight
•Long stalks stay red when cooked
•Slow to bolt
•Let plants bolt to use seed for spice
•Matures 80-90 days from transplant
•Apium graveolens

8. •Chic and fanciful striking chive
•Remarkably cold hardy plants
•Harvest by plucking the lovely
leafette flower head
•Sun loving perennial herb
•Allium tuberosum

9. •Phenomenal container sweet corn
•Sets 2-3 ears even in containers
•Delectably sweet 8-inch long yellow
and white bicolor ears
•Grows a maximum of 5 feet tall
•Zea Mays

10. •High-yielding pickling cucumber
•Excellent flavor
•Deep green, blocky, 4-5” long fruit
•American-style spines
•Vigorous, balanced plant with
consistent fruit setting
•Cucumis sativus

11. •Gourmet quality mini cucumber with
light sweetness and tender skin
•Plants set fruit without pollination
•Try it in a large patio pot with trellis
•Powdery Mildew protection
•Cucumis sativus

12. •Round to egg-shaped fruits average
2.5 to 3” long by 1.75 to 2.25” wide
•Sometimes produced in clusters of 3
•Sturdy plants have compact growth
habit with few spines
•Adaptable for garden and container
• Solanum melongena

13. •Improved Red Deer Tongue variety
•Gorgeous deep reddish-maroon leaf
•Mild flavor and buttery texture
•Resistant to Downy Mildew
•Latuca sativa

14. •Small ruffled heads surrounded by
green outer leaves tinged bronze-red
•Extra crunchy
•Selected in the desert Southwest
•Excellent heat tolerance
•Latuca sativa

15. •Popular color blend of „Freckles,‟
„Silvia‟ and „Vivian‟ romaine lettuces
•Vigorous growth
•Sow every two weeks for continuous
fresh salad greens
•Harvest in 50 days from sowing seed
•Latuca sativa

16. •Deliciously sweet with undertones of
cantaloupe and tropical fruit
•Early maturing, 60-70 days from seed
•Disease resistance to Fusarium Wilt,
Gummy Stem Blight and Alternaria
•Fruit stores well after harvest
•Cucumis melo

17. •Pleasantly hot and spicy flavor
•Adds texture and color to any salad
•Excellent in a braising mustard blend
•Open pollinated cultivar
•Harvest 70-80 days from sowing
•Brassica juncea

18. •Large uniform bulb up to 3 pounds
•Sweet and mild flavored
•Enhanced healthful compounds
•Harvest in 107 days
•Available only at Dixondale Farms
•Allium cepa

19. •Fancy, dark green snow peas
•Harvest at 2.5 inches for extra fancy
•Vines averaging 36 inches produce
more tendrils than typical peas
•Tendrils make excellent garnishes
•May be grown with or without support
•Pisum sativum

20. •Burpee exclusive introduced in 1902
•Deliciously flavored heirloom variety
•Bountiful blue-green 6-inch pods
with 8 berries per pod
•Packed with vitamins A, C and folate
•Pisum sativum

21. •Ornamental and edible
•Perfectly suited to containers and
hanging baskets
•Abundance of sweet, mild, snack
sized 1-2oz red bell peppers
•Harvest 75-80 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum

22. •Tasty thick-walled, flat oblate fruit
•Great for stuffing or as a serving dish,
Hungarian recipe stuffs with cheese
•Extremely long-storing on the shelf
•Perfect for preserving, canning, jarring
•Capsicum annuum

23. •Colorful lunchbox snack peppers
•Remarkably sweet
•Intensely flavorful
•Immediate hit in salads and as a snack
•Tall strong plants
•Capsicum annuum

24. •Sweet flavored golden Marconi-type
•Great yield – 20 to 25 per plant
•Elongated shape - up to 15 inches long
•Harvest 80-90 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum

25. •Thick walled Hungarian cheese pepper
holds any filling deliciously
•Sweet flavor - enjoy raw or baked
•Prolific plant will produce 12 peppers
•Harvest mini-sized 2 to 3-inch peppers
55 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum

26. •Rainbow mix of brilliant colored
fun shaped mini sized peppers
•Firm, crunchy deliciously sweet
raw or cooked – kids love them!
•For eye-catching canapés, salad
accents, kebabs and stuffed treats
•Capsicum annuum

27. •Exceptionally sweet and fruity tasting
miniatures just 4 inches long
• Harvest up to 25-50 peppers per plant
•Medium sized, space-saving, generous
yielding plants for garden or patio pot
•Tasty raw, roasted, grilled, or stir-fried
• Capsicum annuum

28. •Hybrid Cinderella type
•Flattened shiny red/pink smooth fruits
are a decorative fairytale treat
•Nutty tasting 40 pound fruit
•In 110 days harvest 2-4 pumpkins from
vines spreading 3-4 feet
•Cucurbita pepo

29. •Expand your salad greens selection with
this mild lemony domesticated purslane
•Highly nutritious - rich in vitamins A
and C, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids
•Begin harvesting tender shoots and
leaves when plants are 3-4 inches tall
•Portulaca oleracea sativa

30. •Unique ultra sweet, mild almost
creamy texture
•Slow to bolt
•Roots can be harvested from 2
inches to 6 inches
•Harvest 30 days from sowing seed
•Raphanus sativus

31. •Novelty colored vining pumpkin
•100 days to maturity
•Large 9-15 pound 10” globe shape
•Yellow/orange rind with green
stripes between the big ribs
•Cucurbita pepo

32. •Attractive autumn squash with
dark orange fruit
•Tasty, deep yellow-orange fibrous
flesh good for baking and roasting
•Fruits weigh 10-15 pounds
•Resists squash bugs
•Cucurbita maxima

33. •Uniform, highly ornamental plants
give appearance of peppermint candy
•Fast growing – 60-65 days to maturity
•Glossy, savoyed green leaves
•Ideal as edible or ornamental bedding
plants
•Beta vulgaris

34. •Small-sized, flavorful grape tomato
•Highly nutritious – has 45% more
lycopene which helps fight disease
•“Snackable” 1.5 oz. sweet red fruit
•High yielding plants require staking
•Harvest in 65 days from transplant
•Solanum lycopersicum

35. •Vigorous semi-indeterminate tomato
•Produces in abundance for an
extended period of time
•High sugar, great flavor stands in
comparison to heirloom types
•Excellent disease resistance
•Long shelf life
•Solanum lycopersicum

36. •Vigorous indeterminate plants with
mini-plum shaped fruits
•Burst of sweet flavor followed by a
rich tomato finish
•Heavy yields of crack-resistant fruit
•Lycopersicon lycopersicum

37. •Very sweet with excellent flavor
•Deep pink, shiny cherries are borne
on long trusses
•Vigorous, healthy, high-yielding
indeterminate plants
•Resistant to leaf mold and cracking
•Solanum lycopersicum

38. •At 2 lbs, one tomato can fill a
sauce jar all by itself!
•Luscious red, meaty, nearly
seedless - jam-packed with flavor
•5.5‟ tall super-prolific plants
•Harvest 70 days from transplant
•Lycopersicon esculentum

39. •Compact yellow cherry tomato
with sweet mild flavor
•Great for containers or planted
with other annual ornamentals
•Harvest 50 days for sowing seed
•Lycopersicon esculentum

40. •Beautiful sister to „Crimson Sweet‟ has
a tough light green rind with small dark
green stripes
•Blocky oval melon weighs 25 pounds
•Bright yellow flesh with high sugars
•Harvest 80-95 days from sowing seed
•Citrullus lanatus

41. •True gourmet zucchini predominately
used in the Mediterranean region
•Prized for superior flavor, texture and
cooking quality – taste the difference!
•Harvest 55-65 days from sowing seed
•Cucurbita pepo