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Waltham Butternut
Bloomsdale
ORGANIC SALAD/MICRO
GREEN
LACINATO KALE
60 days. Also known as Di-
nosaur or Tuscan kale, leaves are
heavily savoyed and dark blue-
green. Sweet leaves are ideal in raw
salads and juiced.
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RUBY RED SWISS CHARD
55 days. Sweet and tender
rhubarb-like stalks with dark
green, heavily crumpled leaves.
These 18-24” plants yield all sum-
mer and into the fall. Use fresh, fro-
zen or for ornamental purposes.
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FORDHOOK
62 days. Broad, dark green
leaves with white veins and
2.5” wide stalks. Crop is abundant
all season and even after light frosts.
Excellent for greens.
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ORGANIC SPINACH
BLOOMSDALE
45 days. Outstanding strain
of savory-leaved spinach. In-
demand for home and market
gardens. Plant is uniform and com-
pact while leaves are large, dark
green, blistered and crumpled.
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ORGANIC SQUASH
WINTER
TABLE QUEEN ACORN (BUSH)
85 days. This individual-sized
squash is popular for home, market,
garden and shipping. Trailing vines
produce ribbed, thin-shelled fruits.
Flesh is light yellow and bakes dry
and sweet.
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WALTHAM BUTTERNUT
95 days. Uniform in shape
and size, with a good interior
texture and color, fruits can reach
12” and weigh 3-6 pounds. Flesh is
rich, nutty, dry and yellowish-
orange. Vines are vigorous with high
yields.
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SPAGHETTI
90 days. Medium-sized, 3-4
pound oblong fruits. The fruit's
interior is ready for serving like spa-
ghetti 100 days after seed is sown.
Can be stored several months in a
cool, dry place. Vigorous spreading
vines.
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DELICATA
100 days. Delicata has a fine,
sweet, potato-like flavor. Fruits are
3” in diameter and 6-8” long. This
variety is cream-colored with green
stripes from blossom to stem.
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Ruby Red Swiss Chard
BURGESS BUTTERCUP
100 days. The most widely-
planted buttercup. Flattened
turbans, measuring 5-8” in di-
ameter, weigh up to 3-5 pounds.
Harvest when yellow markings on
the fruit’s underside turn orange.
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ORGANIC SQUASH
SUMMER
EARLY PROLIFIC STRAIGHT-
NECK
55 days. Lemon-yellow,
lightly-warted, club-shaped fruits are
tastiest under 7”. With firm, thick
and fine-grained flesh, this variety is
particularly popular in Northern re-
gions.
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DARK GREEN ZUCCHINI
55 days. Early vigorous bush
plant with straight, smooth and dark-
green mottled fruits that are best at 6
-8”. With a firm, greenish-white
flesh, this heavy yielder has a fine
flavor.
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