'Bambino Green' Pesto Basil (Hort Couture)
'Bubble Berry' Strawberry (Pacific Plug & Liner)
'Candyland Red' Tomato (PanAmerican Seed)
'Delizz' Strawberry (ABZ Seeds)
'Gherkind' Cucumber (PanAmerican Seed)
'Hot Pops Purple' Ornamental Pepper (PanAmerican Seed)
'Kabo' and 'Alto' Ornamental Corn (Syngenta Vegetables)
'Kiss' Strawberry (Hort Couture)
'Optimax' Saladette Tomato (Sakata Vegetables)
'Pink Robin' Cherry Tomato (Sakata Vegetables)
'Prizm' Kale (Syngenta Vegetables)
'Stellar' Tomato (PanAmerican Seed)
'Sugar Sprint' Pea (Syngenta Vegetables)
‘Summerpick’ Tomato (Syngenta Vegetables)
Take 2 Tomato Combo - Action (Burpee Seeds)
'Takara' Pepper (Sakata Homegrown Vegetables)
Tomato Mixology Bloody Mary (Hort Couture)
More people join the ranks of vegetable gardeners each year, whether it is delving in to growing a traditional vegetable garden with all the trimmings or cultivating a few cucumbers and tomatoes in containers on a deck or porch. Any more, the vegetable craze is about more than healthy eating. It’s also about flavor, sustainability, variety, organically grown, and more. New varieties of edibles introduced at 2016 California Spring Trials offer something for every type of gardener, from the beginning do-it-yourselfer to the hardcore, heirloom-only type. Check out 17 of the new varieties we saw at Spring Trials this year that will be available for retail in 2017.
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Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.