2019 Tomatoes and Vegetables available from St Paul Youth

Herbs

Basil Marseille The legendary French Basil, very aromatic.

Lime Basil . Tropical Citrus Flavor With a Bite! Adds a peppy Basil lime flavor to your meal. Chives Great flavor for your salads

Cilantro Calypso The special ingredient in salsa. Munstead Lavender This is a perennial The spicy freshness of the much-loved English lavender Munstead has spellbound and entranced people for centuries. Who can resist the bright, clean fragrance of a spray of fresh lavender? Lavender This heirloom strain grows easily and produces plants with silvery gray foliage and dainty purple flowers. The strong, clear perfume is carried throughout the leaves, and attracts bees and butterflies. The dried flowers retain their fragrance and color for months. It tolerates clipping and will form a handsome hedge. Slender Fountains of Lemony Freshness Has lemony scent and the base is used in Thai cooking. Repells mosquitoes. Lemon Grass

Banquet Developed in Denmark, this is the best parsley of all. The dark green color of the tightly curled leaves is enhanced when grown in cooler seasons. Parsley Excellent for wintering over, the firm stems are ideal for garnishing and flavoring. Attracts butterflies.

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Rosmarinus officinalis. This upright 2', shrubby evergreen produces needle-like leaves that are used fresh or dried on Rosemary poultry, meats and seafood. This is a Tender Perennial.

used as a natural sweetener. 20 to 30 times sweeter than sugar cane, yet non- caloric! Grows to 18 inches tall. Stevia

Winter Thymus vulgaris. Oval, grey-green, aromatic leaves grow on upright, shrubby, 8 to 12" plants. Thyme is used fresh or dried Thyme to flavor meats and vegetables. This is a perennial so once you have it started you can enjoy it in future years.

Tomatoes

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I 70 , cherry - Chocolate Cherry Dark colored fruit. Extremely flavorful, uniform, round fruits measure 1" in diameter. Fruits hold stems very well, don't crack and can be picked several days before completely mature and allowed to ripen off the vine without sacrificing quality. Great variety for the home gardener or for packing into pints for market.

I 80 Tomato, cherry – Egg Yolk Bright yellow cherries resemble egg yolks in size, color and shape. Fruits are very sweet, with just the right amount of tartness and grow about 1" in diameter. Vigorous plants produce heavy yields.

I 75 Tomato, cherry – Indigo Blue Berries An eye-catching which ripens from amethyst purple to a stunning, almost black, with a brick red bottom. Flavor is great and is an all around crowd pleaser.

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I 65 Tomato, cherry – Mexico Midget Old-time, south-of-the- border favorite that continues to prove its value as a salad tomato. Tiny, red, cherry-type fruits weigh down trusses with prolific yields throughout an extended growing season. Round 1/2" fruits explode with irresistible flavor. Very reliable.

I 71 Tomato, cherry – Riesentraube Heirloom cherry tomato from Germany produces huge clusters of 20-40 richly flavored fruits. Originating in Germany, this heirloom cherry tomato was grown by the Pennsylvania Dutch (who were in fact German) as early as the 1850s. The variety's name, fittingly enough, translates from the German as "giant bunch of grapes". The compact indeterminate plants produce huge clusters of 20-40 red fruits, 1 1/2 x 1 1/2", with rich, meaty flavor.

I 62 Tomato, cherry – SunSugar The ultimate in cherry tomatoes, this golden-yellow beauty achieves a new level of sugary-sweetness and hybrid flavor, superb texture, and a tangy "true tomato" taste. Fruits are a lovely golden-yellow, weigh 1/2 oz., and possess thin skins - remarkable, considering its wonderful crack resistance, even in heavy rains. Heavy early cropper. Very vigorous. People in Carroll who tried these really like them.

I 57 Tomato, cherry – Sweet Million hybrid Terrific flavor in high yields of super-sweet cherry tomatoes that have excellent, hybrid disease resistance. Long chains of smooth, dark red, 1 to 1-1/2" fruits are produced on large vigorous plants. Matures nice and early and continues producing until frost.

I 75 Tomato, grape - Brad's Atomic Grape Elongated, large cherries in clusters. The color (and flavor!) is a full-blown assault on the senses—lavender and purple stripes, turning to technicolor olive-green, red, and brown/blue stripes when fully ripe. Really wild! Fruits hold well on the vine or off, making this amazing variety a good candidate for market growers. Olive green interior is blushed with red when dead- ripe. Crack-resistant fruits are extraordinarily sweet! Wispy foliage looks delicate but belies these plants’ rugged constitution and high productivity. This release from Wild Boar Farms won best in show at the 2017 National Heirloom Expo! These range some in size from a large grape to plum-sized. AMAZING!

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I 80 Tomato, heirloom - Aunt Ruby's German Green Heirloom green beefsteak with a deliciously sweet flavor that's enhanced by a spicy undertone. Globe-shaped fruits are smooth skinned, 12 to 16 oz., with light green skins at maturity and just a hint of yellow. Flesh is green blushed with pink, meaty, and flavorful. Makes interesting juice!

I 69 Tomato, heirloom – A most unusual novelty. Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost a shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Matures extremely early.

I 78 Tomato, heirloom – Mule Team Rated highly by independent growers. Saved by generations of gardeners and reintroduced because of its enduring qualities: vigorous fruit set, round, medium-sized, red globes that weigh 8-1/2 oz. and are 2-1/2 to 3" across, with a sweet, mild flavor. Meaty textured fruits are produced continuously until frost on sturdy plants.

I 74 Tomato, paste - A long-time favorite heirloom plum. Large for a sauce tomato, Amish Paste's slightly irregular plum-to strawberry shaped fruits avg. 8-12 oz. with excellent flavor. These meaty tomatoes are good in salads and great for processing. A Slow Food USA Ark of Taste variety. Indeterminate.

D 72 Tomato, paste - Pony Express 72 Days from transplant. A heavy producer for the paste type tomato. Produces large fleshly fruit. The thick-walled fruit are great for slicing in salads, dicing for salsa, making sauce or . Early, very concentrated sets on determinate plants with a strong disease package.

D 75 Tomato, paste - Roma 76 days. Most well-known paste-type tomato. Dozens of 2- to 3- ounce, pear-shaped bright red fruits arise on these determinate plants. Superb for pastes and sauces, Roma offers a meaty flavor and very few seeds.

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I 80 Tomato, table – Beefmaster hybrid One of the most popular hybrid beefsteak-types, with improved disease resistance. Solid, hybrid meaty, bright red tomatoes weigh up to 2 lbs. Better yields, larger fruits and good tolerance to cracking and splitting. Indeterminate

I 80 Tomato, table - Beefsteak Beefsteak is an heirloom, renowned for its heavy levels of production. These lightly ribbed, slightly flattened fruits measure a full 4 to 5 inches in diameter, sport bright red hues, and taste absolutely scrumptious -- very sweet yet meaty, with a good substantial bite. One slice makes a sandwich!

I 75 Tomato, table - hybrid A spectacular, midseason variety with plump, juicy, deep red tomatoes that often weigh more hybrid than one pound. And once they arrive they just keep on coming! Fruits are extremely flavorful, with flesh that's juicy, yet firm. Heavy foliage protects fruits from sun-scald. A highly adaptable variety that thrives in nearly any climate. Demonstrates excellent disease resistance.

D 54 Tomato, table – Bush 54 days This "determinate sister" to popular Early Girl (00240) delivers the same desirable qualities in a compact, patio-sized variety: an extreme hybrid earliness and huge yields of firm, meaty, flavorful fruits that are larger than Early Girl - a full 4" in diameter.

semi-D 70 Tomato, table - Celebrity 70 days from setting out transplants. Determinate. An AAS winner and long-time favorite of Park hybrid customers, Celebrity is a superior all-around tomato with such fantastic disease resistance you can put away the sprays and soaps for good! These determinate plants are exceptionally strong, bearing masses of smooth, round, bright red tomatoes. Weighing about 8 ounces, they're very uniform (no green shoulders here!) and resistant to cracking.

I 70 Tomato, table - Jet Star 72 Days. Jet Star produces big yields of large, clean fruit, quite free of cracks and scars, in the second early hybrid season. Globe-shaped fruit with bright, attractive color inside and out have a very pleasant flavor. Sturdy, indeterminate vines grow vigorously, producing heavily on stakes or on the ground. Jet Star is a low acid tomato. If you wish to can Jet Star, please add lemon juice.

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D 75 Tomato, table - Mountain Merit. 75 Days. Mountain Merit is a medium-large, 8-10 oz. tomato produced on a determinate plant that has a high level of resistance to late blight. It hybrid has good adaptability, deep red colored, firm fruit and also offers intermediate resistance to early blight and Nematodes.

D 71 Tomato, Yellow table - Carolina Gold Hybrid The Carolina Gold tomato features a unique golden-yellow colored fruit that is hybrid low in acid and uniform ripening. This variety is very adaptable, and its strong, determinate plant produces mostly extra-large and large fruit throughout the season. To maximize yield potential, stake culture is recommended. Resistant to Verticillium wilt and Fusarium wilt

Broccoli Diplomat hybrid F1 Attractive blue-green heads make Diplomat broccoli an excellent choice for the roadside and fresh market trade. Diplomat broccoli matures in 75 days and has shown good heat and cold tolerance, and it produces uniform semi-domed heads.

Cabbage Bravo Hybrid Bravo cabbage, a rugged hybrid, has performed well from the Deep South in winter to the North in summer. The large, round cabbage heads are uniform and a beautiful blue-green color. Use close spacing (10-12 in.) for market and wide spacing (18- 24") for sauerkraut.

Cabbage Ruby Ball Improved F1 Ruby Ball Improved is an early maturing red cabbage with a dark red exterior color and a good internal red color. The 3-4 lb. round heads are produced on upright plants and have a medium core. The compact plant allows for dense planting and produces heads of excellent quality that hold well at maturity.

2019 Tomatoes and Vegetables Page | 6 Cantaloupe Ambrosia Amazing flavor. Ambrosia is recognized as one of the best tasting melons for the East. Its 4 to 4- 1/2 lb., round fruit have a tan color with a medium net and non-distinct sutures. The peach colored flesh has a wonderful sweet flavor, making it a good roadside melon.

Cantaloupe Sugar Cube Sugar Cube is a small, personal-sized 2 lb. melon that offers the best disease package that any melon variety has to offer. Although Sugar Cube is small, it's big on taste with its deep orange flesh that has a superb eating quality. The round fruit have medium netting and no sutures, and they hold up well in cold storage after harvest. Resistant to PM (1,2),FW (0,1,2), ZYMV, PRSV and WMV. Cucumber, Straight Eight Slicer/Pickling. Cucumber slicing or Straight Eight is an All-American Winner! These perfectly straight cucumbers have sweet, mild flesh. The pickling excellent flavor makes this a super choice for salads or for dipping. If picked small, the cukes are good for pickling, too. Home gardeners keep on growing this old favorite for its large, flavorful fruits.

Eggplant Classic The hybrid by which all eggplants are measured. Classic eggplant's elongated oval, fruit are the size and shape well known in markets. The glossy, deep purple-black color of Classic vigorous plant supports heavy yields of high quality fruit. Classic is the standard for premium eggplant.

Eggplant Hansel All America Selections winner! Hansel’s slim, elongated miniature fruit are tender, smooth, and non-bitter. Harvest can begin about 55 days from transplant, when fruit are 2 to 3" long. The clusters of fruit can be harvested a few days later at 4 to 5" length without loss of fruit quality. The 18" plants yield good quantities of these glossy dark-purple fruit

Pepper, Sweet Banana Pepper A hybrid sweet banana pepper that is vigorous, disease resistant and sets big yields on Banana upright, compact plants. The sweet, tapered fruit ripen from light green to red.

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Pepper, Mini Mini Pepper, 2 – 3 inches long. Sweet and perfect to have on a sandwich or with lunch. Pepper, Specialty Bishop's Crown, named for its distinct three- sided shape resembling a bishop's crown The flesh inside each pepper is thin, yet crisp. They mature to red from a pale green color about 90- 100 days after the seedlings emerge. The body of the peppers have very little heat, with the wings being sweet and mild. Delicious in chili or omelets.

Pepper, Specialty KpaKpo Shito. Produces tiny red fruit that are quite hot but also have a fruity flavor. It’s a pretty plant.

Pepper Early A great early pepper, Early Sunsation Sunsation F1 produces large, smooth fruit that mature from dark green to bright golden-yellow at full maturity. The blocky fruit have thick walls and a sweet taste when allowed to ripen to yellow. Intermediate resistance to BLS adds to the appeal of this early beauty.

Pepper Giant This All America Selections winner produces Marconi F1 a long tapered fruit that is ideal for the Italian fryer type market. Giant Marconi peppers have a wonderful, sweet taste when it matures to red. The 8" long x 3" wide fruit tapers, and matures earlier than other marconi types and is great for roasting or grilling. Ripens deep green to red.

2019 Tomatoes and Vegetables Page | 8 Pepper Lady Bell This hybrid pepper has been a consistent F1 performer in the Northeast. The rich green fruit that ripen red have a uniform deep bell shape with 3-4 lobes and medium-thick walls. Lady Bell is prolific, even in cooler weather and is one of the dependable producers of sweet peppers we know. It is popular for pepper plant sales as well as fresh market use.

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