Dark, sweet, rich flavor. Take the variety that tastes like beefsteak flavor and has metallic green stripes.
Brandywine tomato
Sweet flavor with large beefsteak shape. Johnny’s says it’s one of the best tasting tomatoes. One large fruit can be over 1 lb. of red, smooth meat.
Celebrity tomato
Good for slicing, snacking, bruschetta, and sandwiches. Resistant to nematodes, fusarium wilt, tobacco mosaic virus, and verticillium wilt. Heavy fruiter.
San Marzano tomato
From Parma, Italy, this is really good for tomato paste and marinara sauce and peels quickly. It’s a good balance of sweet, bold, and acidic flavor.
Sun gold tomato
Tart, sweet flavor. This fruit grows in big clusters. Good for snacking a week before it matures. One of the most popular cherry tomato ever.
Supersweet 100 tomato
Tastes sugary. Grow this one on fence stakes. It grows in big clusters. Highly resistant to verticillium wilt and fusarium wilt.
Brad’s atomic grape tomato
Lavender, purple, orange and red iridescent fruits with sweet flavor Growers will love it for how well fruit holds on and off the vine. Ranges from grape to plum sized.
Basil Genovese
Italian classic. Tall plant, slow to bolt with big, dark-green leaves about 3” long. Edible flowers ideal for drinks, salads, pasta, and dessert. The flavor is more intense than other basil.
Blue Spice Basil
The most fragrant basil with spicy vanilla flavor. Great for salads and savory dishes. The plant loves the summer heat!
Cruiser cilantro
Leaves, seeds, and flowers are edible. Eat them raw because you lose flavor quickly when you cook it. Bolt-resistant, ideal for bunching variety for fresh market sales.
Diva slicing cucumber
Known for their crisp, sweet flavor. This cucumber is seedless and thin-skinned. It is highly resistant to scab and moderately resistant to powdery mildew and cucumber vein yellow virus. This crop doesn’t need a pollinator for fruiting or flowering. Harvest and eat this fruit before it reaches maximum size. Smaller cucumbers taste better. The thin skin doesn’t need to be peeled.
Supremo pickling cucumber
Has broad disease resistance. This is a blocky cucumber with flavor perfect for pickles. Ideal for salads and snacking.
Nadia eggplant
This is a traditional black, Italian variety. Its thin skin can be cooked directly with the eggplant meat. People love this variety stuffed or grilled.
Carolina reaper hot pepper
The hottest peppers in the world! A fruity, sweet flavor along with the spice. This will work well as dried powder or hot sauce. This goes well with chili, soup, or stew.
Flaming flare fresno hot pepper
This flavor is sweet, mildly hot. Ideal eaten fresh, for stir fries, hot sauce, and sautéing. Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. This pepper was an All-American Selection winner, meaning it performed well in the group’s trial sites. If you harvest this pepper later, your hot sauce will be hotter.
Mad hatter hot pepper
This pepper looks like a bishop’s crown. The fruit is moderately sweet with a hint of citrus. It is really hot when you eat around the seed cavity. These plants are easy to grow in North America. Ideal when stuffed with cheese, eaten in salads raw, or pickled.
Hot paper lanterns hot pepper
It’s a mix between tropical, sweet peppers and habanero flavor. It really does look like a lantern!
Early jalapeno hot pepper
Small pepper, bold flavor. Adapted for growing in cooler climates. You can eat them to get a little spice while not burning your mouth off. If you let it turn red, you get a sweeter, bolder flavor.
Red Knight Sweet Pepper
Fruity, sweet flavor in a red, boxy fruit. Resistant to bacterial leaf spot and potato virus Y.
Gourmet sweet pepper
Crunchy texture, sweet flavor. Medium-sized, blocky fruit. It’s sweet with a lot of flavor. Well adapted to grow in many different conditions. It comes from a plant with high yield potential, and it’s resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. Ideal eaten raw, for grilling, salads, stir fry, and sauté.
Flavorburst sweet pepper
Crisp, sweet, juicy flavor, it won a Burpee taste test. Grow in a sunny spot in the summer with lots of water, and you’ll get fruit all summer long.
Carmen sweet pepper
Shaped like an Italian bull horn, Johnny’s says it’s the best sweet pepper for frying. It’s good for grilling, roasting, and salads. Named after an opera singer named Carmen. This crop is high yielding. Grow this in gardens or big containers.
Athena Cantaloupe
Smells like ambrosia with firm, yellow-orange meat. Crack resistant, good shelf life, widely adaptable, and moderately resistant to powdery mildew and various Fusarium wilt races.
Crimson sweet watermelon
From Kansas State University, this is resistant to fusarium wilt and anthracnose. Really sugary. You’ll get a large fruit almost 1 sq. foot when it’s time to harvest. High in antioxidants!
Sugar Baby watermelon
Super sweet and nutritious with firm, red meat. These melons will almost look black when they’re ripe, and its rinds are crack-resistant.
Dunja zucchini
Resistant to zucchini yellow mosaic virus, papaya ringspot virus, and watermelon mosaic virus. Easy to harvest and good for tunnel production. This crop is high yielding with a vigorous growth habit. Fruit from this crop is high quality.
Golden glory zucchini
Ideal grilled or marinated, and not too watery or meaty. Produces well under disease and insect pressure. Moderate resistance to zucchini yellow mosaic virus, powdery mildew, and watermelon mosaic virus. Easy to harvest with no blemish.