Good keeper, standard late season variety. Heads form up to 12 inches and weigh as much as 12 pounds. Keeps very well for processing. Humus rich soil for optimun growth.
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Lettuce is a hardy, fast-growing annual vegetable with either loose or compact leaves. Leaf color ranges from light green through reddish brown. When it bolts, or goes to seed, the flower stalks are 2 to 3 feet tall, with small, yellowish flowers on the stalk. Iceberg Lettuce head is almost as solid as cabbage and grows to 3-4 lbs. Tender, exceptionally sweet, greenish-white hearts. Produces even in summer heat, but holds up in cold weather too.

Planting Depth: 1/4″
Soil Temp. for Germ.: 45-80 F
Days to Germ.: 2-15
Plant Spacing: 8″
Days to Maturity: 80-85
Full Sun/Partial Shade
Water Often
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Calabrese Broccoli proper name is Brassica Oleracea, this is a great broccoli for the home garden. Dark green plant with a blue-green head. Plant remains productive after harvest of the head, continuing to produce many side shoots until a hard freeze. For fresh use and freezing. Loves cool weather. Does best when transplanted outside mid-spring or late summer. During germination, keep entire seedbed evenly moist. Harvest main head at its peak size. Just before the flowers open. Side shoots will develop.
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Sweet Meyer lemon is a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. It has a yellowish-orange skin that is exceptionally smooth and tends to be almost round in shape with a thin skin. The pulp is usually dark yellow, contains less acid and has more juice than a lemon. It has a distinct honeysuckle aroma and a sweet lemony mandarin flavor. Sweet Meyer lemon is naturally less tart and great for baking, preserving or making lemonade.
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Papaya is one of the easiest of tropical fruits to grow. Family is Acanthaceae. Common Names: papaya, papaw, fruta bomba, lechosa R Culture. Grow papaya in fertile, well-drained soil. Papayas need full sun and warmth. Moisture: The tropical papaya needs at least 4 in (10.2 cm) of rain per month for optimal fruit production. They like plenty of water when it’s warm and less when it’s cooler. Hardy in zones 10 and 11. Propagation: Papayas are usually propagated from seed which takes 3-5 weeks to germinate. Description The papaya plant has an erect branchless trunk 6-20 ft (1.8-6.1 m) tall, and a palmlike head of foliage at the top. The trunk remains somewhat succulent and soft wooded, and never develops true bark. The leaves are deeply incised and lobed, up to 24 in (61 cm) across and borne on 24 in (61 cm) petioles. The smooth-skinned fruits are green, yellow, orange or rose colored, and can weigh as much as 20 pounds (9.1 kg), but typically are about a pound (0.5 kg).
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Melissa’s Strawberry Papayas is the sweetest and most flavorful of all papayas, brings you the sweet taste of the tropics. The intense pink or salmon-red colored flesh makes a colorful and delicious addition to fruit salads and salsas, and the fruity flavors are perfect in your favorite smoothie recipes. Strawberry Papayas from Melissa’s can be enjoyed as fresh fruit or used as an ingredient.
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Importfood offer good quality fresh green papaya product of Mexico, perfect for making Thai Papaya Salad, “Som Tum”. The papaya has light green flesh. Size varies a bit, but the papaya will weigh between 3-4 lbs, and yields 3 to 4 cups of shredded papaya.
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Edible garden soybeans are exceptionally nutritious and tasty for snacks or meals. Easy to grow and easy to prepare. Plant in full sun in spring, after the threat of frost and successively through June. Edible garden soybeans was developed for the home garden and human diet by Dr. Richard Bernard, University of Illinois, Urbana. 75 seeds.
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Bucks County Tomato is the best new tomato for 1999 by Organic Gardening testers. A hybrid of the heirloom variety ‘Red Brandywine’ with improved disease resistance and productivity. Delicious, deep red, 8 ounce, oblate-shaped fruits grow on vigorous, indeterminate plants. 74 days.
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The Straight Eight Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) standard for slicing cucumbers. Pick when fruit is approximately 8 inches long. Grow on a fence, a trellis, or garden. May be planted every two weeks until mid-summer.
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