Vegetables
New Varieties For 2014
BASIL ‘BAM’
•Burpee Exclusive
•Flowerless plants never bolt
•Deliriously fragrant & flavorful
•Produces all season - just won’t quit
•Tolerates warm temperatures
•Harvest 60-120 days from transplant
•Ocimum basilicum
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
BASIL ‘DOLLY’
•High-yielding Genovese basil
•Upright, somewhat compact plants
•Large cupped 4-inch leaves
•Very uniform plant habit & leaf shape
•Somewhat lighter leaf color
•Choose organic or nonorganic seeds
•Ocimum basilicum
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
BEAN ‘ASPARAGUS RED PODDED’
•Red podded bean up to 24 inches long
•Tender and very tasty, best used fried
•Small seed with a very good yield
•10 to12 foot vines
•Harvest 75 days from sowing seed
•Vigna unguiculata spp. sesquipedialis
Terra Organics, LLC
BEAN ‘MASCOTTE’ 2014 AAS WINNER
•Compact plant perfect for window
boxes, containers & small gardens
•Disease resistance makes for reliable
growing & strong garden performance
•Slim, stringless, crisp textured,
flavorful pods for snacking or cooking
•Harvest 50 days from sowing seed
•Phaseolus vulgaris
Harris Seeds
BEAN ‘SAVANNAH’
•Robust yield, strong disease package
and truly outstanding flavor
•Dark green, straight pods with slight
sweetness, excellent tenderness
•Seeds develop slowly within the pods
so beans stay tender and “snap-able”
for a longer harvest
•Phaseolus vulgaris
Harris Seeds
BEAN ‘RED SWAN’
•Cross between a purple snap bean
and a pinto bean
•Pod color is dusty red-rose
•Stringless pods are 4-5 inches long
•Bush habit
•Harvest 52-58 days from sowing seed
•Phaseolus vulgaris
Terra Organics, LLC
BEET ‘BABYBEAT’
•A true baby beet well-proportioned
even when young
•Nice round taproot and smooth skin
•Small, attractive tops help to form a
well-proportioned bunch
•Perfect for cooking or steaming whole
•Beta vulgaris
Johnny’s selected seeds
BEET ‘BOLDOR’
•Gold exterior, deep rich color interior
•Sweet and mild 2-inch round fruit
•Tops are tender & sweet when young
•Perfect for fall and winter salads
•Very tolerant to foliar diseases
•Beta vulgaris
Bejo Seeds, Inc.
CARROT ‘ADELAIDE’
•‘Adelaide’ is a true baby carrot
•Has an early maturity, forming a
blunt root tip at 3-4 inches long
•Great for bunching & marketing as
true baby carrots
•Daucus sativus
Johnny’s selected seeds
CARROT ‘ANTHONINA’
•Vigorous deep purple standard carrot
•Can grow a very large root 10” long
•Very little core when given proper
time to mature
•Average maturity is 125-145 days
•‘Anthonina’ is perfect for juicing
•Daucus carota
Seminis home garden
COLLARD ‘TIGER’ F1
•Exciting new high yielding, early,
Georgia type hybrid
•Wavy, lightly savoyed blue-green
leaves regrow quickly after cutting
•Upright plant has high ratio of blade
to stalk, meaning more usable leaf
per plant
•Brassica oleraecea
Sakata Seed America, Inc.
CUCUMBER ‘BABY HYBRID’
•Snack-size 4-inch gourmet type
•Thin skinned non-bitter fruit
•Crisp, firm fruits can be eaten
without peeling
•High-yielding - starts producing and
keeps producing for many months
•Cucumis sativus
Botanical Interests
CUCUMBER ‘IZNIK’
•Mini 3-4 inch spineless, seedless
dark green snack cucumber
•Excellent flavor
•Pick daily for best quality
•Parthenocarpic and gynoecious
•Vining, requires staking
•Cucumis sativus
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
CUCUMBER ‘PICK A BUSHEL’ F1
•AAS Regional Winner (Heartland &
Great Lakes)
•Early to set fruit
•Prolific quantity of sweet tasting fruit
•Compact bush-type plants can grown in
patio containers.
•Disease resistance to CMB, Scab, MMV
• Cucumis sativus
Seeds By Design & Burpee
CUCUMBER ‘SILVER SLICER’
•Prolific creamy white slicing cucumber
was a favorite of taste testers
•Remarkably uniform 7-8 inch fruits
are consistently straight and abundant
•Distinctive white color, tender skin,
fresh sweetness, and pleasant crunch
•Vigorous vines resist Powdery Mildew
•Cucumis sativus
Harris Seeds
EGGPLANT ‘RAJA’ & ‘SURAJ’
•‘Raja’ is white, ‘Suraj’ is light purple
•Heavy-yielding Indian types have
round to egg-shaped fruits
•Compact sturdy plants produce high
yields of fruits 2.5-3 inches long
•Great fruit shape for stuffing
•Solanum melongena
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
KALE ‘WHITE RUSSIAN’
•Sweet, mild tasting semi-savoy kale
•Wonderful in salads and stir-fries
•Leaf color similar to ‘Red Russian’ but
with white midrib and veins
•Cold tolerant and hardy
•Harvest 50-60 days from sowing seed
•Brassica oleracea
Seeds By Design, Inc.
LEEK ‘RALLY’
•When cooked, has a creamy texture
and is sweet like an onion
•Edible, mild flavored stem resembles
a long, fat green onion
•Upright 2-3 foot tall fan shaped fruit
•Requires plentiful and even moisture
for good yields
•Allium porrum
Bejo Seeds Inc.
LETTUCE ‘SUSAN’
•Frilly loose salad heads 8 inches tall
•Used for baby leaf, cut and come
again, or grown to full maturity
•Very sweet leaves and typically not
bitter when heat stressed
•Well adapted to container gardens or
raised beds
Seeds By Design, Inc.
•Lactuca sativa
MELON ‘HAOGEN’
•Thick medium green flesh tinged with
salmon around seed cavity
•Unique spicy flavor
•Vigorous vines bear 10 or more 3-5
lb. round melons with smooth skin
•Harvest 80-85 days from sowing seed
•Cucumis melo
Terra Organics, LLC
MICROGREENS ‘PEAS FOR SHOOTS’
•Exceptionally tender shoots impart
the sweet taste of fresh peas to
salads and cooked dishes
•Easy to grow in the garden or
indoors in a shallow tray
•Best cut at 4-6” tall for fresh use
•Psium sativum
Botanical Interests
OKRA ‘JING ORANGE’
•An okra from Asia
•Reddish orange color
•Produces pods 6 to 7 inches
•Harvest at an early stage for most
tender 50-75 days from sowing seed
•Grow in full sun or shade
•Hibiscus esculentus
Seeds By Design, Inc.
ONION ‘RED RIVER’
•Considered a long “intermediate day”
or a short “long day” variety
•Sweet flavor dark red 1 pound onion
•Boasts a strong root system
•High yield & good storage potential
•Resistant to pink root, fusarium &
bolting
•Allium cepa
Dixondale Farms
PEA ‘BLUE PODDED’
•Blue podded soup pea
•Spectacular 5-6 foot tall plant is so
beautiful it can be grown as an
ornamental
•Requires staking
•Harvest 80-85 days from sowing seed
•Pisum sativum
Terra Organics, LLC
PEPPER ‘AURA’ & ‘GLOW’
•New specialty sweet peppers golden
yellow ‘Aura’ and bright orange
‘Glow’ are shown with red ‘Lipstick’
•Sweet, juicy, and thick-fleshed
•Delicious in salads, salsas or roasted
•Attractive 4-5 inch long tapered
•Capsicum annuum
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
PEPPER ‘THUNDERBOLT HYBRID’
•Burpee Exclusive
•Big beautiful sweet Marconi pepper
•Bushy upright plants produce
plentiful yields of 13-inch beauties
that transition from green to red
•Harvest 65-80 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
PEPPER ‘MAMA MIA GIALLO’ F1
•Sweet Italian pepper delicious fresh
and excellent grilled or roasted
•Compact 24” bushy plant produces
30 bright yellow pendant fruits
•Harvest 85 days after transplanting
•Disease tolerance to TMV
•Capsicum annuum
Seeds By Design
PEPPER ‘MOSQUETERO’
•Poblano (ancho) pepper with mild
to moderate heat
•Nice for stuffing, grilling,
chopping, salsa, or chili
•High yields of uniform, smooth,
dark green 2-lobed 6”x3” fruit that
turn red if left on the plant longer
•Capsicum annuum
Sakata Seed America, Inc.
PEPPER ‘RED BELT’
•Beautiful elongated sweet bell
pepper – harvest when bright red –
about 60 days from sowing seed
•Culinary must have – sweet, juicy,
crispy crunch, smooth, firm & glossy
•Consistent size and fruit quality
•Capsicum annuum
Syngenta Seeds Inc.
PEPPER ‘WIZARD (WITH X3R®)’
•High yields of sweet dark green fruit
•Well adapted for spring and summer
throughout the United States
•Blocky, smooth attractive fruit mature
from green to red
•Resistant to Bacterial Leaf Spot 0-3
•Capsicum annuum
Seminis Home Garden
PUMPKIN ‘CINDERELLA’S CARRIAGE’
F1
•AAS Regional Winner (Southeast,
Heartland and Mountain/Southwest)
•First hybrid Cinderella-type pumpkin
•Robust vines produce large 18-20
pound fruits with sweet nutty flavor
Powdery Mildew resistance
•Cucurbita maxima
Seeds By Design
RADISH ‘DRAGON’ F1
•Oriental radish hybrid
•Mildly spicy, good fresh or stir fried
•2.5-3 inches long
•Bright pink skin, white flesh
•45 days to harvest
•Raphanus sativus
Pro-Veg Seeds Ltd.
RADISH ‘HALLOWEEN MIX’
•Beautiful festive blend of black,
white, yellow and purple radishes
•Round fruits 2 to 2½ inches
•Adds spicy flavor and abundant
color to your salad or relish tray
•Harvest in 23-30 days
•Raphanus sativus
Seeds By Design, Inc.
SQUASH ‘HONEYNUT’
•A small butternut that is an orange
buff color
•Grows 4-5 inches and weighs 5-8 oz.
•Vining plant spreads 30-50 inches
•Harvest 100 days from sowing seed
•Some resistances to Powdery Mildew
•Cucurbita moschata
Terra Organics, LLC
SQUASH ‘PRIMAVERA’ F1
•High-yielding hybrid spaghetti squash
•Mild, slightly nutty taste
•Similar size (2.5-3 pounds) to the
standard OP variety
•Excellent uniformity in size and shape
•Harvest 90 days from sowing seed
•Curcurbita pepo
Sakata Seed America, Inc.
SQUASH ‘SHOKICHI GREEN’ &
‘SHOKICHI SHRIO’
•Personal sized Kabocha winter squash
•Great ornamental and delicious edible
•‘Shokichi Shrio’ is gray
•‘Shokichi Green’ is green
•Small single-serving size ½-1¼ lbs.
•High yielding 6-10 fruits per plant
•Cucurbita maxima
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
SQUASH ‘TAHITIAN BUTTERNUT’
•Highest sugar content of any winter
squash, gets sweeter during storage
•Huge club-shaped fruit 8-40 pounds
•Harvest 100 pounds or more per
vigorous mildew resistant vine
•Needs long warm growing season of
160-200 days from sowing seed
•Cucurbita moschata
Seeds By Design, Inc.
TOMATO ‘ARTISAN  ’ ASSORTMENT
•Exclusive to Johnny’s - new group of
small-fruited (25-30 grams) striped
tomatoes with exceptional flavor
•Shapes are elongated, round, miniplum and julienne
•Colors are yellow, green, pink,
purple, blush with varied striping
•Solanum lycopersicum
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
TOMATO ‘BABY BOOMER HYBRID’
•Burpee Exclusive
•Prolific red cherry tomato
•Great big flavor packed into 1 ounce
•Patio-ready bushy determinate
plants produce right into frost
•Bumper crop of 300 little sweeties
•Solanum lycopersicon
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
TOMATO ‘CHEF’S CHOICE
ORANGE’ F1
•Hybrid derived from popular heirloom
‘Amana Orange’
•Superior taste and texture
•Indeterminate tomato
•Harvest 75 days from transplant
•Resistance to TMV, Crack, Anthracnose
Seeds By Design
•Solanum lycopersicon
TOMATO ‘FANTASTICO’
•Early maturing, high-yielding grape
tomato producing about 350 fruits
•Bred for hanging baskets, container
gardens and small gardens
•Long clusters of sweet tasty fruits
•Resistance to Late Blight
•Solanum lycopersicon
Pro-Veg Seeds
TOMATO ‘HOMESLICE’
•Exceptional slicer tomato 5-6 oz.
•Compact, vigorous determinate plant
•Mounded, spreading habit
•Early yields (63 days from
transplant) of bountiful harvests
•Perfect for patio containers and small
gardens
•Solanum lycopersicum
PanAmerican Seed Co.
TOMATO INDIGO ‘SUN’ F1
BUMPER CROP GRAFTED TOMATO
•Yellow cherry tomato with indigo
anthocyanin pigmentation
•Exceptional flavor, ideal balance of
sugars and acids
•Can have 8 fruit per cluster
•Harvest 1 oz. cherries 80 days from
transplant
PanAmerican Seed Co.
•Solanum lycopersicum
TOMATO ‘MOUNTAIN MERIT’
•AAS Regional Winner (Heartland)
•10-14 ounce firm round beefsteak
with good sugar and acid balance
•Deep red color inside & out
•Vigorous tall bushy determinate plant
•Superb disease resistances
•Solanum lycopersicum
NCSU & Bejo Seeds, Inc.
TOMATO ‘STEAKHOUSE HYBRID’
•Burpee Exclusive - biggest tomato
ever bred - up to 3 pounds
•Loaded with true heirloom tomato
flavor and head-spinning fragrance
•Indeterminate plants produce
gorgeous, humongous fruits 75-80
days from transplant
•Solanum lycopersicum
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
TOMATO ‘SUMMER GIRL HYBRID’
•Burpee Exclusive
•Early - 49-52 days from transplant
•Round 5-6 ounce sweet juicy fruits
•Disease tolerance to Verticillum and
fusarium
•Indeterminate – requires staking
•Solanum lycopersicum
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
WATERMELON ‘TRIPLE BABY’ F1
•Icebox type, has round shaped fruit
•Personal sized triploid with average
weight of 5-8 lbs.
•Sweet flavored deep red flesh
•Dark rind, almost black
•Harvest 65-75 days from sowing seed
•Citrullus lanatus
Seeds By Design, Inc.