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The Squash Summer Early Yellow Crookneck, 'Cucurbita pepo', has a taste that has been described as creamy, mild, sweet, and buttery . The Early Yellow Crookneck is a versatile vegetable. It can be steamed, grilled on the barbecue, sauteed, added to salads, stuffed with lots of tasty delights, and made into bread. This compact plant produces lots of squash. Harvest as soon as squash reaches at least 1 inch in length and up to 4 to 7 inches in length. Squash are most tender and flavorful when young. Price:
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The Squash Summer Baby Round Zucchini, 'Cucurbita pepo', is a tasty, unique French heirloom is not available at grocery stores. Do you love summer squash but grow enough each year for a small army? Try Baby Round or Ronde de Nice (as the French call it). The useful 1 to 5 inch squash can be stuffed with delicate delights, steamed and eaten as any summer squash, and has a unique blossom attachment for edible flower use. Squash are most tender and flavorful when young. Price:
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The Squash Summer Black Beauty Zucchini, 'Cucurbita pepo', has very tender, creamy white, flavorful flesh. The Black Beauty Zucchini plant is compact and bush like. This squash is a very versatile vegetable. They can be steamed, grilled, sauteed, eaten raw in salads, made into relish, and made into breads. Harvest as soon as squash reaches at least 1 inch in length and up to 6 inches in length. Squash are most tender and flavorful when young. Price:
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The Squash Spaghetti Winter Vegetable Spaghetti, 'Cucurbita pepo', can be served just like pasta. When cooked, the flesh separates into long spaghetti-like strands. This very tasty squash can be stored for up to 6 months. In addition to the subtle, tasty flavor, Spaghetti Squash can be prepared with tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese or pesto sauce, just like real pasta. They should be harvested when you can't dent the hard skin with your finger. Winter squash cannot be overripe, but can be under ripe. Price:
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The Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant, 'Beta vulgaris', will grow in heat and cold, is nutritious, and has a long harvest period. Fordhook Giant can either be steamed, stir-fried, or eaten fresh. Swiss Chard is a green that many seasoned gardeners claim everyone must grow. The leaves can be harvested from late spring continuing all the way to the first frost. It will also tolerate partial shade. In warm climates, plant in late summer for fall/winter crop. Chard grows best in in well drained soil with lots of organic matter. Price:
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The Tomatillo Toma Verde, 'Physalis ixocarpa', has a unique flavor that makes an indescribably tasty "Salsa Verde", a salsa some say is far superior to red salsa. Toma Verde Tomatillo is adapted to grow successfully in wide range of climates. These papery-husked wonders prefer growing conditions similar to tomatoes, but they will handle a lot more heat and drought than tomatoes. Plant in average garden soil with some organic matter. Fruits should be harvested when they almost fill the husk but are still green in color. Price:
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The Tomato Pole Amish Paste, 'Lycopersicon lycopersicum', is one of those old, wonderfully flavored paste tomato varieties from years past. Amish Paste has few seeds, solid flesh, and is large for a paste tomato. If you are making a tomato sauce or canning tomatoes, do not use a regular tomato! Amish Paste is the tomato to use. Amish Paste is an intermediate tomato which means they continue to grow indefinitely until frost. Lycopersicon lycopersicum (Hybrid) Prune the intermediate tomatoes in order to keep a single stem. Price:
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The Tomato Cherry Gardeners Delight, 'Lycopersicon lycopersicum', is quite possibly the best tasting little tomato in the world. Gardeners Delight is very sweet and is great on salads or eaten in the garden. Several reviews proclaim this the best flavored cherry tomato. Gardeners Delight has clusters of 6 to 12 tomatoes all summer. Every garden has to have a cherry tomato plant for popping a few of these sweet delights into your mouth while gardening. Prune the intermediate tomatoes in order to keep a single stem. Price:
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The Watercress, 'Nasturtium officinale', has a snappy, clean, peppery taste that will add crunch to you sandwiches, salads, omelets, or potato salads. You don't have to have a free running stream or lake in your yard to grow watercress. Any moist, part-shady location will do. If you like the texture and flavor of alfalfa or bean sprouts with your food, you will love watercress. It will do the best in areas with less than 1/2 day of sun. When plants are 4 to 6 inches tall, clip sprigs off the top 3 to 4 inches. The tips are the most tender part of the plant. Price:
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The Watermelon Crimson Sweet, 'Citrullus lanatus' has a high sugar content flesh that is very sweet and crisp. The Crimson Sweet would qualify as a low calorie snack or dessert. What is the first word that comes to your mind when you think of watermelon? Summer? Vacation? This watermelon will not disappoint with its very sweet (an astonishing 12% sugar level), 21 to 25 pound fruit with bright red flesh. The soil should be light and well drained. Watermelon use a lot of water but the soil must never be soggy. Price:
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