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The Red Warty Thing Pumpkin is just what the name implies: it has lumpy, red-orange skin. This is a very decorative pumpkin that adds colour and rich texture to a fall display. Putting the name aside, Red Warty is excellent for eating with its sweet, stringless flesh.
Garden Tip:Â The bumps are caused by the high sugar content that actually extrudes through the skin and continue to form after harvest.
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This spectacular peanut pumpkin squash is pink with beige bumps resembling peanuts covering its surface. Peanut Pumpkins add a different look to fall decorating. Try them with colourful leaves and gourds or carved into a gruesome Jack O’Lantern. Go nuts!
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Blue Doll Pumpkin is just that! It is a unique pumpkin because of its almost square shape with deep ribbing and its eye-catching shade of blue. Blue Doll’s deep-orange, sweet flesh can be used for baking and cooking. A good choice to use in your fall displays to add interest. Be the first in your neighborhood to go blue!
Garden Tip:Â Cut from the vine carefully, leaving 3″ – 4″ of stem attached to the fruit. Pumpkins without stems usually do not keep well.
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Dill’s Atlantic Giant Pumpkin has been described as the granddaddy of the giants. When the proper growing procedures are used, the size will increase to over 1000 pounds! Dill’s Atlantic is a light orange, slightly ribbed pumpkin. This is the variety to grow when competing for “who has the biggest pumpkin at the fair”
Garden Tip:Â Cut from the vine carefully, leaving 3″ – 4″ of stem attached to the fruit. Pumpkins without stems usually do not keep well. Remove all but one pumpkin from the vine to grow the largest pumpkin.
Classic Prize Winner! Big Moon is a bright orange, fast growing beauty that can reach weights of 200 pounds or more. Add to your garden for a dramatic fall decorating touch. The tender flesh can be used for baking. Remove all but one fruit from the vine to grow a larger pumpkin.
Love to snack on pumpkin seeds? The our Lady Godiva Pumpkin is for you! This unique, ornamental pumpkin is not known for the flesh like other pumpkins, but has naked, hull-less seeds that are delicious roasted or raw. The Lady Godiva pumpkin is known to have up to a pound of seeds! Pumpkin seeds are a great healthy snack for most ages.
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A very rare and distinct shape. The Dipper Gourd can be used as a ladle. The stem can be straight or curved. Some stems will even grow into knots while still on the vines. Plant can be grown on the ground or on a trellis.
Garden Tip:Â For best germination, nick the seedcoat. Soak in lukewarm water for 24 hours before planting. Best to plant when soil temperature in 65 degrees or higher.
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An attractive gourd reminiscent of swans. its skin colour is dark green and its light green speckles change to tan when dried. 10″ – 12″ from curve in neck to base of fruit. Very pretty when painted.
Garden Tip: For best germination, nick the seedcoat. Soak in lukewarm water for 24 hours before planting. Best to plant when soil temperature in 65 degrees or higher.
Tasty when popped, Strawberry Popcorn is often grown for its ornamental qualities. The 2″ ears resemble strawberries in colour and shape. Kernels turn white when popped. Each stalk usually yields 2 to 4 ears. This can provide a colourful touch to your fall decorating.
Garden Tip: For fun, pop the corn on the small cobs inside a paper bag in the microwave for about 4-5 minutes on a high setting.
A hardy, spreading annual with daisy-like flowers. Blooms are 2-4 inches across in brilliant shades of white, yellow and orange. An excellent variety to sow in early spring as it will produce extravagant colour for weeks. Whether in rock gardens, floral gardens or in mixtures, you will be delighted with this outstanding performer.
Garden Tip: Prior to planting, cultivate soil to a depth of 1″ to 2″ and rake to remove debris. After seed is sown, water should begin immediately. Walter lightly and frequently. Your goal is to keep the soil bed moist.
Wake up each morning to the opening of a new blossom of portulaca. Also known as the sun plant, portulaca is heat and drought tolerant. The double mix produces dozens of large, luxurious blooms in a full range of spectacular colour. Easy to grow and beautiful in any garden.
Garden Tip: A cheery accent flower for your rock garden
State Fair Mix Zinnia takes the prize! Large blooms in hues of red, yellow, orange, purple, pink and white make it the winner. Plant in gardens, borders and containers to add some flower power! Pick a bouquet and brighten up your home.
Garden Tip: An easy-to-grow plant. Disease resistant, sun and heat tolerant. Good choice for beginner gardeners.
Thumbelina Mix Zinnia makes you think the earth laughs in flowers. A sassy, button-like bloom in shades of yellow, pink, magenta and white is excellent in borders, beds and containers. Keep deadheaded for continual blooming.
Garden Tip: Zinnia thrive in hot weather. Water deeply by soaking soil, and avoid spraying foliage.
Hollyhocks are a garden tradition, and summer carnival mix is definitely a favourite from year to year. The bright colours of the 4″ double blooms are lovely growing in a cottage garden, along a fence, or cut for your favourite vase. After growing you will see why Summer Carnival Mix is an AAS award winner. The powderpuff blooms in shades of pink, red and yellow are long lasting and set lower on the stalk. You will enjoy this hollyhock all summer long. Blooms second year.
Garden Tip: An application of fertilizer in the spring is helpful
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Jolly Jester Marigold is a brightly striped 2″ single flower in alternating red and orange shades. The bushy, compact plant is ideal for adding snappy colours to your garden, borders and containers. Marigolds are not fussy and can tolerate heat and drought easily!
Garden Tip: deadheading will prolong the bloom period
Variety originated in Japan.
Japanese Long Cucumber is a burpless cucumber that produces crisp, easy to digest, non-bitter fruit to 40cm or longer. Fruit is slightly curved with few seeds. Best harvested at 30cm long. For straighter fruit, vigorous growing vines should be grown on a trellis.
Variety originated in Russia.
Welsh Bunching Onions are a very hardy, non-bulbing, clump forming member of the onion family. The hollow tube-like leaves have an enticing onion flavour and aroma. Very important in Asian Cuisine. A reliable, self-seeding biennial.
Variety originated in Italy.
Fire Candle Radish has bright red tapered roots ranging from 15-20cm in length and approximately 5cm across. Crunchy, brilliant white flesh. A great choice for open sandy loam soil.
Variety originated in The USA.
Grow a healthy rainbow of tasty beets. Detroit dark red, Golden beet, White albino beet and Chioggia beet.
Variety originated in Hungary.
Alma Paprica Pepper is a thick walled sweet pepper with a touch of heat. Fruits are 2.5 – 5 cm in diameter, starting white before turning orange, then bright red when fully ripe. Eat fresh or dry and grind for your own spice.
Cream of the Crop Squash is a bush type acorn squash that produces creamy-white 1.4kg fruit on compact vines. Light golden coloured flesh has a lovely nutty taste. Good storage squash.
Culinary Blend Chicory is a colourful blend of leaf and both round and sugar-loaf head types. Makes for crunchy, succulent salads. Blend includes Batavian endive, red Verona, Treviso and sugar loaf chicories.
Chine Express Hybrid Cabbage is an early maturing, full sized Napa-type cabbage. Adapts to a wide range of growing conditions. Attractive, tightly packed barrel-shaped heads weighing around 2kg. Crisp bright white and rich green leaves have a pleasant mild taste.
Variety originated in Egypt.
Red Fire Orach has crimson purple leaves with a spinach like taste. Much slower to bolt to seed than spinach. Good for baby greens too! Can reach up to 180cm in height.
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