9 Leafy Greens Varieties You Need To Know
October 1, 2015 This month’s variety specs feature focuses on the latest leafy greens varieties including lettuce, cilantro, mustard, and collards. Many of the varieties are slow to bolt. Other features highlighted include good disease resistance packages, vibrant leaf color, and good yield potential.
Stay tuned for next month’s feature where we will be highlighting some of the latest onion varieties.
Amara
Breeder: Shamrock Seeds Company
Distributor: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Type: Mustard/kale
Days to maturity: 21 days baby; 40 bunching
Yield potential: Good
Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted
Other attributes: While technically a mustard, Amara is known by several different names including Ethiopian
kale, highland kale, Abyssinian mustard, and Texsel greens. The attractive, dark-green leaves are tender, slightly savoyed with a wavy margin, and have an ex-cellent rich flavor.
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Capulin
Breeder: Enza Zaden
Distributor: Rupp Seeds
Type: Batavian lettuce
Disease resistance/Tolerance: Downy mildew races 1-27
Days to maturity: 45-50
Yield potential: High
Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest, Northeast
Other attributes: Fine-frilled leaves, healthy bottom, slow to bolt
Fusion
Breeder: Orsetti Seeds
Distributor: Seedway
Type: Leaf lettuce
Days to maturity: 70
Yield potential: Excellent
Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted
Other attributes: Vigorous in both hot and cold weather. Fusion has an upright habit like Romaine and is easy to grow and slow to bolt. Each leaf is approximately the same size and shape.
Salvius RZ
Breeder: Rijk Zwaan
Type: Romaine lettuce
Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance to lettuce leaf aphid and downy mildew races 16-26, 28, and 32. Intermediate resistance to corky root. Days to maturity: Midseason
Yield potential: High
Region(s) best suited for production: Adaptable to many regions
Other attributes: Organic variety is high yielding with a strong pest resistance package.
Sandy
Breeder: Seeds By Design
Type: Oakleaf lettuce
Disease resistance/Tolerance: Resistant to powdery mildew, downy mildew, tip burn. Sandy is heat tolerant
Days to maturity: 30 days, baby; 50 days, full head
Other attributes: A 2015 National All-America Selections winning lettuce, Sandy has exceptional disease and bolt resistance. Can be sown in either spring or fall seasons. Lovely, dark-green oakleaf lettuce with a multitude of extra frilly leaves. Very slow to bolt, tight loose-leaf heads.
Stage Coach
Breeder: Syngenta
Type: Iceberg lettuce
Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance to tomato bushy stunt virus
Days to maturity: Very early
Yield potential: High yield potential
Region(s) best suited for production: Coastal California
Other attributes: Stage Coach has excellent head quality, a dual-usage purpose, and tip-burn tolerance.
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Super Turbo II
Breeder: Golden Valley Seed
Type: Coriander/Cilantro
Disease resistance/Tolerance: high tolerance to bacterial blight, heat, and bolting
Days to maturity: 35-40 days
Yield potential: Very high. Several and multiple cuts during the growing season
Region(s) best suited for production: Southwestern and Southeastern U.S., and from Southern Europe and Northern Africa to Southwestern Asia
Other attributes: Full, bulky plants provide a high leaf yield; Super Turbo II is three weeks slower to bolt than other varieties. Plants are harvested at 7 to 8 inches in size. Leaves are glossy green and parsley-like.
SV1235LB
Breeder: Seminis
Type: Butterhead lettuce
Days to maturity: 90 days (60 days for the coastal region), with a sowing slot of January – August
Region(s) best suited for production: Desert and Coastal regions of the West Other attributes: Thanks to its dark, rich outer color and yellow interior, SV1235LB performs well both blended and bagged for retail markets and offers good contrast in a bag to lighter butter lettuce varieties. It is well-suited for the fresh market.
Tiger
Breeder: Sakata Seed America
Type: Collard
Days to maturity: 69 from direct seed
Yield potential: Excellent yield potential
Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast
Other attributes: Good for both fresh market and processing. High ratio of blade to stalk. Upright Georgia plant habit with slightly savoyed, blue green leaves. Very fast regrowth ability.
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