Spring Garden Market 2020 • Vegetables

Type Cultivar Description Color DTM SMSF Zone
Long straight green beans Bean
filet bean 		Mascotte

An AAS award winner for its super-compact habit and high production of delectable beans. Mascotte provides full-sized harvests from container-friendly plants. Big, white blooms followed by tender, stringless, tasty beans held high for easy spotting. Slender, French-style green beans keep coming… more

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Photo of cluster of picked green beans, with a round black compass on top. Bean
filet bean 		Compass

From any direction, Compass will lead you to a successful green bean crop. Despite their smaller plant stature, they relentlessly produce long, straight, thin beans by the fistfuls. The pods pack in loads of hearty, delicious bean flavor. Compass is the perfect choice for small-space gardens,… more

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Cucumber - Diva - tender, crisp, sweet, bitter-free, and seedless cukes Cucumber
slicing 		Diva

Especially flavorful when harvested small. Diva produces distinctly tender, crisp, sweet, bitter-free, and seedless cukes. Adapted to open-field production and protected cropping. Gynoecious and parthenocarpic. High resistance to scab; and intermediate resistance to cucumber vein yellow… more

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Cucumber - Olympian - beautiful, dark green, straight, mid-size fruit are crisp with fresh flavor Cucumber
slicing 		Olympian

High yields over a long harvest season. Broad disease resistance. Olympian's beautiful, dark green, straight, mid-size fruit are crisp with fresh flavor. Gynoecious with 10% pollenizer added. Intermediate resistance to anthracnose, angular leaf spot, downy mildew, powdery mildew, and scab… more

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Bright yellow patty pan squashes Summer Squash
classic 		Sunburst

Attractive, whether picked tiny, with the blossom still attached, or teacup-size. Vigorous plants with very good yields of butter-yellow scalloped fruits with bright-green blossom ends. AAS winner. HARVEST BLOSSOMS: Harvest male blossoms (with thin stems) or female blossoms (with thick… more

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2 dark green classic zucchini Summer Squash
classic 		Black Beauty

The classic dark-green summer squash that has made modern zucchini of this type popular. Introduced in the US markets in the 1920's, and seed companies started listing it in the 1930's. Delicious fried or baked; best picked young.

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3 round baseball-sized green zucchini Summer Squash
round 		Eight Ball

Dark-green, shiny round zucchini. Plants have short spines and yield consistently over the whole season. For best flavor, harvest when fruit is 2-3" in diameter. HARVEST BLOSSOMS: Harvest male blossoms (with thin stems) or female blossoms (with thick stems and a bulbous base that becomes… more

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Traditionally squash-like long, cylindrical, uniform fruits. Summer Squash
Yellow Squash 		Cube of Butter

Tempting and tender, these lemon yellow, straightneck squash are succulent and delicious with creamy white flesh. The uniform, cylindrical fruit can be picked young as baby-sized squash, or allowed to reach up to 10 inches while retaining all its irresistible, high quality flavor. Low growing,… more

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