Chef's Choice Orange’ F1 is a hybrid tomato that matures 75 days from transplant and its disease resistance is an added bonus. This variety has a wonderful bright, almost neon, internal color and superior flesh taste and texture. It is excellent for soups and sauces because the intense color does not fade or discolor when cooked.

2014 Regional AAS Winner Cinderella’s Carriage is a bright reddish-orange pumpkin, and is the first hybrid Cinderella-type pumpkin on the market. It features high yields as well as resistance to powdery mildew. Robust and vigorous vines produce large fruits ranging from 25 to 35 pounds, creating a nice grouping of pumpkins.

Giant Ristra F1 looks like a red Marconi pepper but has the heat of a cayenne. Its texture and heat make it an excellent eating variety while it can also be dried and used in dishes. In mountain and Southern trial gardens, Giant Ristra produced an exceptionally high yield of uniformly shaped peppers on attractive plants, which judges reported were very easy to grow.

Harvest Moon is a hybrid, triploid seedless watermelon. Similar to the popular heirloom variety, Moon and Stars, it's an improvement in that it features healthy, shorter vines that produce medium-sized fruits and sweet, crisp pink-red flesh. It retains the familiar dark-green rind with yellow dots, but is seedless, early to ripen, higher yielding, and better tasting.

Mama Mia Giallo has high yields and uniformly shaped fruit with smooth skin. The fruit is long and tapered, and is a beautiful yellow/gold color when mature. It has a sweet flavor that is excellent either fresh or roasted. It matures 85 days after transplanting. The plant is compact at 24 inches, and offers disease tolerance to tobacco mosaic virus.

Selected from an old Paris heirloom cucumber, this very early maturing, small warty hybrid gherkin sets a large crop of black spine fruit.  Pick them small and pickle for crunchy mini-pickles or slightly larger for standard size. The plants are semi-bush and have good powdery mildew tolerance.

This cucumber is great for Northern areas because it is early to set fruit, and is a compact-bush type cucumber spreading only about 24 inches. It offers a sweeter tasting light-green cucumber with a nice firm texture, perfect for pickling when harvested early. Fruits left on the bush-type vines longer can get up to 6 inches long and can be enjoyed fresh in salads.

This cucumber boasts a bush-type growth habit and is perfect for growing in container gardens. Saladmore Bush is a good slicing type cucumber with dark-green skin and long straight fruits with superior taste and texture.

Sandy has exceptional powdery mildew and bolt resistance. It can be sown in either spring or fall seasons. It is a lovely, dark-green oakleaf lettuce with a multitude of extra frilly leaves. Grow it in a salad blend or just buy itself.