9 New Veggies To Add To Your Edibles Inventory
Providing new edibles can be a great way to bring new customers, especially younger ones, into your garden center. This photo gallery includes nine new varieties; consider them in your planning for the spring season.
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Tomato ‘Tidy Treats’ (PanAmerican Seed)
‘Tidy Treats’ has tons of fruit power on a very compact plant. It is good in small-space gardens and containers, but unlike other patio types, ‘Tidy Treats’ continues to produce red cherry tomatoes all season. It has a habit like a determinate but produces like an indeterminate.
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Tomato ‘Summerpick’ (Syngenta Flowers)
‘Summerpick’ is a classic warm-season tomato that delivers large to extra-large fruit. Whether grown in-ground or in a container, ‘Summerpick’ provides the perfect combination of acidity and sweetness. Each plant features an abundance of firm, uniformly sized tomatoes that can weigh up to 11 ounces each.
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Italian Grape Tomato ‘Pandorino’ (Renee’s Garden)
This high-yielding Italian grape tomato offers cascading clusters of juicy sweet fruits all summer long with wonderful full tomato flavor. It is extremely disease resistant and has widely adopted vines.
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Tomato ‘SteakHouse’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
One of the world’s largest beefsteaks, ‘SteakHouse’ tips the scales at up to 3 pounds. This broad-shouldered tomato plant is loaded with true heirloom flavor and wonderful fragrance. The indeterminate plant produces plenty of gorgeous fruits.
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Pepper ‘Sweet Savour’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
‘Sweet Savour’ is an ideal pepper for containers and small gardens. The beautiful tricolor fruit looks like a hot pepper but tastes like a sweet pepper. This versatile variety is both an edible and an ornamental, bringing flavor and color to backyards.
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Bell Pepper ‘Bayonet’ (Syngenta Flowers)
‘Bayonet’ is a new sweet bell pepper that provides multiple harvests of extra-large fruit throughout the season. This green-to-red pepper performs well in difficult conditions, such as cold and drought, and its strong plant structure provides great coverage to protect the fruit. ‘Bayonet’ also has powerful disease resistance.
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Eggplant ‘Shikou’ (Sakata Seed America)
Derived from the Japanese word meaning “supreme,” ‘Shikou’ is a long, Asian-type eggplant with dark, glossy fruit that measure 6 to 8 inches long by 1 to 1.5 inches wide. Plants are medium-sized, productive and semi-spineless, and the fruit has very few seeds, thin tender skin and a very white interior. ‘Shikou’ is easily prepared — just slice and sauté or stir-fry, no peeling or salting required.
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Organic Potatoes (Netherland Bulb Co.)
Netherland Bulb is certified as an organic handler by Pennsylvania Certified Organic to ship organically grown potatoes from Idaho. This award-winning presentation provides a compact display and a selection of five potato varieties with 40 packages per case. It is available to ship in February for spring sales.
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Pea ‘Masterpiece’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
‘Masterpiece’ is a wonderful addition to the kitchen garden. Harvest the pea shoots young, or allow them to grow to enjoy edible pod or shelled peas. The parsley-like hyper tendrils are edible and delicious. ‘Masterpiece’ is ideal for small-space garden beds, patio containers and window boxes.
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Tomato ‘Tidy Treats’ (PanAmerican Seed)
Tomato ‘Summerpick’ (Syngenta Flowers)
Italian Grape Tomato ‘Pandorino’ (Renee’s Garden)
Tomato ‘SteakHouse’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
Pepper ‘Sweet Savour’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
Bell Pepper ‘Bayonet’ (Syngenta Flowers)
Eggplant ‘Shikou’ (Sakata Seed America)
Organic Potatoes (Netherland Bulb Co.)
Pea ‘Masterpiece’ (Burpee Home Gardens)
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Brian Sparks is senior editor of Greenhouse Grower and editor of Greenhouse Grower Technology. See all author stories here.