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White Icicle radish:
A delicately flavored cream-colored oblong radish that is delicious in salads or eaten alone.
Genovese Sweet Basil:
A favorite for pesto because of its spicy flavor concentration, this herb is also an excellent addition to traditional Italian sauces, soups and salads.
Cilantro:
Used extensively in Oriental, Caribbean, Central & South American cuisines, this herb adds punch and color when chopped and sprinkled on top of salads, meats, and vegetables and as a crucial ingredient in salsas and marinades.
Provider Bush Beans:
A slender green bean that is delicious steamed, stir-fried or blanched. It can also be dried as a white soup bean.
Cucumbers:
The Marketmore Cucumbers are sweet and great for slicing and for salads.
National Cucumbers are high in chlorophyll; they are excellent in salads and great for pickling.
Sugar Snap and Cascadia Peas:
When harvested early, these peas can be eaten pod and all, steamed or stir-fried. Later in the season each pod yields 5-7 crunchy sweet peas that are delicious eaten fresh or flash frozen for later.
Tomato Varieties: 
Better Boys: a large, red sweet fruit that is excellent in salads or sliced and eaten sprinkled with salt or sugar.
Romas: a bright red pear shaped fruit; this tomato is thick and meaty with a mild flavor that is excellent for sauces.
Roman Candles: a yellow banana-shaped heirloom tomato, low in acid and versatile in use.
Rutgers: a red globed-shaped tomato, full-bodied in flavor and excellent for freezing and canning. Also perfect for salads and fresh pasta dishes.
Thessaloniki: an heirloom tomato originally from Greece, baseball-sized, sweet and delicious when eaten fresh or sliced for sandwiches.
Peppers:
Ancho: a long reddish-brown chili pepper, medium hot with an aromatic flavor. This is a great pepper for roasting and peeling for sauces or drying for later use.
 Giant Marconi: harvested as a red or green pepper, these are sweet and excellent for grilling, stuffing, salads and stir-fry dishes.
Green Wonder: a pepper that can be used in many ways, including stir-fry dishes ands/or diced in salads or chili.
Islander: a deep purple, crunchy sweet pepper with a spicy flavor and moderate heat. This pepper is excellent when grilled, stuffed or fried.
Spanish Spice: a long and tapered green pepper with spicy flavor and moderate heat. This pepper is excellent when grilled, stuffed or fried.
Tennessee Cheese: a quintessential sweet red pepper that is delicious in salads, on pizzas or in stir-fries or sauces.
Squash and Pumpkins:
Golden Table Acorn Squash is long-keeping and known for its sweetness. It is excellent baked, stuffed or as a base for soup.
Sugar Baby: a pie pumpkin that is small, sweet and perfect for a variety of desserts and pumpkin butter. |
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