All America Vegetable Selections 2001

Sweet Corn F1 ‘Honey Select' has proven its delicious sweet honey flavor and tender eating quality in trials across North America. The only reason to grow your own sweet corn is flavor and 'Honey Select' has flavor and ease of growing. A TripleSweet™ variety, 'Honey Select' ears are 75% sugary enhanced (se) and 25% super-sweet (sh2) kernels. Unlike other super-sweet types, 'Honey Select' does not require isolation from other corn pollen. Maturing in about 79 days, gardeners will find yellow ‘Honey Select' ears about 8 inches long. Mature ears can be harvested over a longer time without loss of eating quality.

Tomato F1 'Jolly' is a delicious, new pink tomato. The vigorous indeterminate vines produce abundant clusters of 1 1/2 ounce peach shaped fruit. Gardeners can expect 9 to 14 tomatoes per cluster. 'Jolly' plants yield ripe fruit in about 70 to 75 days from transplanting, 'Jolly' will produce the highest quality tomatoes if vines are pruned and tied to vertical support. 'Jolly' plants are easy-to-grow offering meaty, sweet pink tomatoes fresh from your garden.

Pepper F1 'Giant Marconi' is an improved Italian grilling pepper. About 6 to 8 inches long, the tapered green pepper will mature to red on the 30 inch plant. 'Giant Marconi' tastes excellent raw but is best when grilled. It has a memorable sweet, smoky flavor. 'Giant Marconi' was judged best in its class for earliness, yield, pepper size and flavor. Plants are resistant to Potato Virus Y and Tobacco Mosaic Virus, which means the plants tend to live longer for an improved yield. Green peppers can be harvested in about 72 days from transplanting.

Onion F1 'Super Star' is an improved white sweet onion recommended for all spring gardens in North America because it is day length neutral. Most onions require long days - (over 12 hours of sunlight) or short days to bulb. ‘Super Star' does not have this requirement so it is widely adaptable. If seed is sown and transplanted early,'Super Star' onions can weigh one pound or more, when mature in about 100 days. Resistant to pink root, 'Super Star' onions are exceptional when eaten raw, in salads or sandwiches. 'Super Star' is milder, sweeter and larger than 'White Sweet Spanish' the closest comparison.

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