Our summer seed order from Johnny’s Selected Seeds came in a few days ago! Excited about all the different fruits and vegetables we have planned. Click the links to read additional details.
Seed packets from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
Hybrid Diploid Watermelon – Little Baby Flower F1: Small 5.5 inch fruit with dark pink flesh that is sweet and crisp with high sugar content.
Hybrid Cantaloupe – Sarah’s Choice F1: Named “Most Flavorful” by Johnny’s. Also has resistance to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt (races 0,1 and 2).
Hybrid Zucchini Squash – Dunja F1: Organic, early and powdery mildew resistant. Yields dark green, straight zucchinis. Also resistant to papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus and zucchini mosaic virus.
Hybrid Winter Squash – JWS 6823 F1 PMR: Good tasting butternut with shorter vining and smaller fruits compared to Waltham Butternut. Resistant to powdery mildew.
Slicing Cucumbers – Marketmore 76: Long, slender, dark green cucumbers. Begins bearing late but picks for a relatively long time. Resistant to cucumber mosaic virus, downy mildew (specific races), powdery mildew and scab.
Specialty Cucumber – Diva: Persian cucumber that produces distinctly tender, crisp, sweet, bitter-free, and seedless cukes. Resistant to cucumber vein yellowing virus, downy mildew (specific races), powdery mildew and scab.
Sweet Peppers – Lunchbox Pepper Mix: Mix of yellow, orange and red snack peppers. These mini-sized peppers are remarkably sweet and flavorful.
Soybean, Green – Butterbean: Sweet, buttery, and high yielding; Butterbeans are acclaimed as the finest in green vegetable soybeans.
We chose to grow a lot of hybrid varieties because there are a lot of gardens in close proximity in our community garden and diseases can spread quickly. Also since we have limited space in our community garden, we chose hybrid varieties what were more compact.
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