For the spring garden, growers may consider the latest All-America Selections vegetable winners, including one plant variety that serves as an ornamental and edible, announced earlier this year.
With unique flavors, increased harvests and improved stamina, these new vegetable winners Geisha chives garlic, Cleopatra oregano, Artwork F1 broccoli, Avalanche beet and Persian basil, can already be found at seed and garden companies.
For 2015, find better flavor
The “marriage” of heirloom tomato varieties has created what seed developers say are attractive fruits offering the old-time flavor.
In addition, National Garden Bureau members offer veggies with better disease resistance, high yields and unique flavor.
Z’Oro from Sakata America (Photo: National Garden Bureau).
2015’s sweet pepper year
Ancient Oaxaca people prepared for future meals drying some of their fruit harvests such as sweet peppers - perhaps for seasoning.
Their storage of seasonings and dried fruit now serves as an archaeologist's find thousands of years later.
Sweet Red Bull from Sakata Seed America (Photo: National Garden Bureau).
New tomatoes are aplenty
As gardeners thumb through the latest seed catalogs, they're likely to find a new tomato with just the characteristics they want and hundreds of old favorites, too.
This year offers crossed heirlooms, hybrids with virus resistance and more.
Genuwine tomato (Photo: National Garden Bureau).
Bumblebees thrive in city
Bumblebees might not be particular when it comes to life in the city, according to research indicating the pollinators do well in both urban and suburban areas.
In fact, "bumblebees are 'urban-adaptable,'" as noted in a study on Philadelphia gardens.
City gardens attract bumblebees with flowers.
AAS winners now for sale
For the spring garden, growers may consider the latest All-America Selections vegetable winners.
These winners, Geisha chives garlic, Cleopatra oregano, Artwork F1 broccoli, Avalanche beet and Persian basil, are already available.
Geisha, All-America Selections winner (All-America Selections).
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