From Park Seed: Mama
Mia Giallo Hybrid Sweet Pepper
This Italian Sweet
Pepper is an All-America Selection!
Mama Mia, that's a
delicious pepper! Say hello to the award-winning Italian Sweet Pepper with
bright golden-yellow skin, heavy yields, a compact habit, great disease
resistance, and early maturity. It's the pepper that has it all -- and we
haven't even started talking about the flavor yet! Mama Mia Giallo sets more
than 2 dozen long, tapered peppers on every compact plant. They reach 7 to 9
inches long and weigh in at about 2 to 4 ounces each. Great for fresh eating,
grilling, or roasting, these Italian sweet peppers are big on flavor and
texture -- juicy, rich, and meaty.
From Park Seed: Fantastico Tomato
Expect up to 12 pounds
of fruit on every compact plant!
Determinate.So quick,
so generous, and so delicious! Fantastico is a determinate (meaning it sets its
crop all at once), super-compact grape tomato just right for 18-inch hanging
baskets, large containers, and the vegetable garden. Its fruit ripens in no
time, harvests easily on big clusters hanging around the outside of the plant,
tolerates late blight, and has a rich, tangy tomato bite.
This super-productive
plant is a powerhouse, setting up to 350 fruits (about 12 pounds) of deep red,
glossy, smooth ½-ounce grape tomatoes. The skin resists cracking, the bite is a
good combination of sweet and tangy, and the yields are amazing. You just can't
lose with this one!Best of all, Fantastico is great for small gardens and
patios. You can put it in a container, where it will cascade over the sides,
setting fruit every inch of the way. Or, if you prefer to train it up a
trellis, it will reach at least 3 feet high and about 18 to 20 inches wide.
Fantastico finishes in
no time, setting its big crop all at once, and stands up to late blight
beautifully. It's versatile, a workhorse in garden or container. And it's
attractive enough to grow as an edible ornamental. No wonder it received a 2014
All-America Selection award for excellence in home gardens!
From Burpee: Pumpkin,
Porcelain Doll Hybrid (no picture)
The world's very first
pink pumpkin! 110 days. Pink is the pumpkin! Sensational, one-of-a-kind
beauty is the world’s very first pink pumpkin—and a pumpkin with a cause.
Squarish, deep-ribbed 20-24 lb. pink marvel with sturdy handle makes for
eye-catching seasonal decoration. Boasts deep-orange, sweet flesh—ready to star
in pies, soups, and gourmet creations. Fully-vined, leafy plants show good
tolerance to powdery mildew and downy mildew. Percentage of proceeds benefits
the Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation efforts in battling breast cancer. GROWING
TIP: Wait until pumpkins are fully pink and stem is corky before harvesting.Product
DetailsSun: Full Sun Height: 24-30 inchesSpread: 6-8
feetThinning: 6 feet Sowing Method: Direct Sow Fruit
Weight: 20-24 poundsDays to Maturity:110 days
From Burpee: Pepper,
Sweet, Candy Apple HybridGlorious bell pepper with flavorful, sweet, mild
flesh. Early-maturing, large 5" fruits are deep red and sugary sweet
in just 71 days. A flavor-rich pepper that excels in salads, as snacks, and
when roasted, baked or sautéed.Product DetailsSowing Method:Indoor Sow Days
to Maturity: 71 daysHeight: 28 inchesSpread: 28
inchesThinning: 28 inches
From Burpee: Tomato,
SuperSauce Hybrid (no picture)
The world's largest
sauce tomato! It’s SuperSauce! The new tomato superhero. A whole lot
bigger, a whole lot better, a roma with aroma. Weighing in at 2-lbs., a
whopping 5.5” tall x 5” wide, SuperSauce produces gallons of luscious, seedless
sauce from a single plant harvest—one tomato fills an entire sauce jar. Very
few people in the gardening world consider a paste tomato for anything other
than to make paste or sauce. SuperSauce is extraordinarily delicious and
versatile as a salad tomato, as well as having a distinctive quality in that its
large segments of fruit often make a shape that is perfect for a meaty and
tasty hamburger slice, quite different from the horizontal slice commonly used
from a large round tomato. Easy-to-grow, indeterminate, disease-free plants
yield a summerlong supply of the exquisitely-flavored marinara, tomato gravy or
meat sauce plus plenty for slicing and salads.Product DetailsFruit Weight: 22-32
ouncesDays to Maturity: 70 daysHeight: 45 inchesSowing
Method: Indoor Sow Spread: 38 inches
From Burpee: Born to
be Mild Hybrid (no picture)
Jalapeno flavor
without the heat! Luscious, green, low-heat hot pepper reminds us what how
utterly delectable a pepper can be when your mouth isn’t on fire. ‘Name’
provides full spectrum of flavorful nuances that, with hotter varieties, go up
in flames. Jalapeño’s flavor is earthy, rich and full-bodied: a welcome
addition to a stir-fry, or enjoyed roasted. Product DetailsSun: Full
Sun Sowing Method:Indoor Sow Days to Maturity: 60-65
daysHeight: 20-25 inchesSpread: 20-25 inches
From Burpee: Pepper,
Sweet, Tweety Hybrid (no picture)
1-2" yellow
peppers are great for stuffing or snacking! A tasty, golden-yellow mate of
our beloved Cherry Stuffer. Prolific plants offer up a bounty of stuffable,
grillable, flavorful, bright-yellow fruits. Fruits early to mature.Product
DetailsSowing Method: Indoor Sow Days to Maturity: 70-75
daysHeight: 24-32 inchesSpread: 24-32 inchesThinning: 24
inches
From Park Seed:
Mascotte French Filet Bean Seeds
This French Filet Bean
is great for patio pots and windowboxes!
The first bean to win
an All-America Selection in more than 25 years, Mascotte is exceptional in
every way. This French Filet Bean is a dwarf, bush-habit variety just right for
containers as well as the garden. It offers stringless, slender, crunchy beans
packed with flavor and nutritiion.
Mascotte is a haricot
vert with vigorous, dense, but very shallow roots. This means that unlike most
other beans, it can grow quite happily in tall flowerpots, garden tubs, and
windowboxes. Of course, it's also content in the garden. In any sunny,
well-drained spot, expect it to reach about 16 to 18 inches high and 8 to 10
inches wide. This charmer also beguiles with unusually large, abundant white
flowers in springtime. All beans bloom, but Mascotte is particularly striking
with large flowers on compact stems. Just one more ornamental touch to win your
heart!
Best of all, the beans
are stringless and set right on top of the leaves, for easy picking! The 5- to
6-inch pods are super-slender at just ¼-inch diameter, yet packed with rich
flavor and crunchy texture. They arise profusely over a long season. Eat 'em straight
from the plant, raw in salads, or cooked in any of your favorite dishes! This
award-winner is also resistant to many diseases that plague other varieties.
Bean common mosaic virus, anthracnose, and halo blight are no issue for
Mascotte! So even if you're a first-time bean grower, you can be successful
with very little effort!
What I do:
Cabbage worms:
We only have 2 cabbage plants this year. They were developing great with no signs of cabbage worms. Unitl this morning. I pulled about 10 worms off them and there are several holes eaten into the young cabbage heads. I will have to continue checking for worms now and I hope the plants will recover.
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