2026 Trials

A very popular, tender, dark red beet used by many for market or garden.

58 Days to Maturity

A fast-growing, globe shaped hybrid with moderately zoned flesh, extremely smooth skin, and strong tops. These attractive and flavorful roots are great for fresh market, bunching, or processing.

60 Days to Maturity

Produces remarkably uniform, glossy, very dark green heads. Leaves have smooth margins and texture is moderately thick with slight blistering.

A mid-sized variety with beautiful dark red color which is suitable for full season production.

First hybrid white stem. Slower bolting and higher yielding than OP’s. Popular with Chinese market.

35 -40 Days to Maturity

The first hybrid green-petiole Pak Choi. More vigorous early growth. Smaller stalk than Joi Choi. More suitable for market. Somewhat more difficult to grow. Type known by both Japanese and Chinese.

35-40 Days to Maturity

Very early, excellent quality, dark green freezer pea.

55 Days to Maturity

Sabre is a normal vine type with long pods. The dark green berries produce wonderful yields of frozen, canned or fresh product

65 Days to Maturity

Heavily savoyed DMR spinach for all seasons.

A good balance of speed, dark color, savoy, and bolt tolerance for ample harvests through the whole year. Very productive in the winter tunnel. Uniform and upright, with a less cupped leaf than traditional savoy varieties.

27 Days to Maturity

Glossy dark green, elongated-oval leaves. Upright growth habit. Slower growth makes it ideal for early spring through early summer planting, as well as early fall. USDA Certified Organic.

27 Days to Maturity

Desperado is a robust variety that produces high yields of high-quality straight pods, quick to mature. Well adapted for heat and stress tolerance with strong consumer appeal.

53 Days to Maturity

Extremely straight, glossy pods. Pods resist breaking and bruising. Plant does not lodge. Versatile across all growing regions. Excellent seed quality and germination.

57 Days to Maturity

Very popular for the home garden. Disease Resistance

Downy Mildew
Powdery Mildew

55 Days to Maturity

A popular variety used by the bedding plant industry for the home gardener.

55 Days to Maturity

Sets well in heat. Large true blocky fruit. Very disease tolerant. Early main season. Quick to red. 3 – 4 lobe.

68 Days to Maturity

The first phytophthora root rot resistant hybrid bell pepper from Syngenta. Fruit are in the large fruit class and are high quality. Has a medium tall plant.

72 Days to Maturity

A spineless variety that integrates more refined flecking onto a rich looking glossy fruit. Contains the “easy pick” characteristic meaning the fruit are easily twisted from the plant leaving the peduncle and fruit still intact.

44 Days to Maturity

Spineless petioles provide less painful picking on this hybrid from the Slickpik series. Standard commercial shape with an open plant makes a desirable package all around!

40 Days to Maturity

High eating quality variety that is perfect size for CSA box growers and personal-sized market. Very nice color and shape while maturing earlier than Honeynut.

100-105 Days to Maturity

Produces single-serving squash with very sweet and delicious flavor. Very high yielding.

105-110 Days to Maturity

Basil –

Fast-growing with large leaves. Downy mildew and Fusarium resistant.

Plants produce high yields of 4″ long leaves. Highly uniform plants have a sweet aroma with notes of anise. Suitable for field and greenhouse production.

74 Days to Maturity

Improved strain of standard Genovese basil.

Superbo was bred in Italy for improved uniformity of plant habit and flavor. Classic Italian Genovese variety with authentic flavor and appearance. Large, dark green leaves approx. 3″ long. Ht. 24–30″.

68 Days to Maturity

Cosmos

Large, pure white blooms on strong stems.

Afternoon White was bred for cut-flower production. As a tetraploid, it has more substantive flowers and stems. In our trials, it produces strong, straight stems and 2–4″ white blooms with bright yellow centers. Early to flower. Blooms are not as profuse as more common cosmos varieties, but the superior stem and flower quality make Afternoon White a good cut-flower choice.

75 – 90 Days to Maturity

Bicolor blooms in a range of pink to white.

2–3″ fully double and semidouble bicolor flowers on strong stems for cutting. They are highly variable in the proportion of pink to white, creating the pleasant effect of a bicolor mix. Flower colors range from a contrasting, dark pink edge on a bright white flower to soft, creamy white with blush of pink. Cosmos are also known as garden cosmos.

75 – 90 Days to Maturity

Sunflowers

Like our other dwarfs, the final height depends on the size of the container. Expect 8-12″ plants from seeds directly sown in a 4″ pot. 35-42″ in the garden; 14-25″ long stems. Earliest of the teddy types in trial, this branching variety will host 3-5″ sunny, shaggy blooms. Popular with children. Minimal pollen.

65 – 75 Days to Maturity

Peach-colored blooms combine well with soft or vivid colors and are every bit as early and reliable as the other well-known ProCut colors. Single-stem plants have tall, strong stems and 4–6″, pollenless blooms. Another exciting introduction from US plant breeder Dr. Tom Heaton and company. Pollenless. Single stem.

50 – 60 Days to Maturity