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Arugula
| 2 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Asparagus
Mary Washington
| 12 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | Friends: Aster family flowers, dill ,coriander, carrots, tomatoes, parsley, basil, comfrey and marigolds.
Avoid: Onions, garlic and potatoes. |
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Asparagus
Jersey Giant
| 12 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | Friends: Aster family flowers, dill ,coriander, carrots, tomatoes, parsley, basil, comfrey and marigolds.
Avoid: Onions, garlic and potatoes. |
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Basil
| 26 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavor. Basil also does well with peppers, oregano, asparagus and petunias. Basil can be helpful in repelling thrips. It is said to repel flies and mosquitoes. Do not plant near rue or sage. |
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Bay
| 1 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Beans (Bush Snap)
Tavera
| 12 | 9" | 5" x 1' 1" | |
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Beans (Bush Snap)
Pencil Pod
| 12 | 9" | 5" x 1' 1" | |
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Beans (Dry)
Black Turtle
| 26 | 9" | 7" x 1' 1" | |
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Beans (Dry)
Jacobs Cattle
| 29 | 9" | 7" x 1' 1" | |
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Beans (Pole)
Kentucky Wonder
| 11 | 9" | 5" x 1' 1" | |
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Beans (Pole)
Rattlesnake
| 12 | 9" | 5" x 1' 1" | |
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Beet
Early Wonder
| 8 | 5" | 3" x 7" | 48 Days, Heirloom. Plant early spring or late summer. Good for greens, early crop. |
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Beet
Golden
| 12 | 5" | 3" x 7" | 50 Days, Golden beets do not germinate as strongly, so plant a little thicker. Keep soil evenly moist until they germinate. Plant 3" apart. LAKE VALLEY |
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Beet
Beet-Fall
| 7 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Beet
Detroit Red
| 8 | 5" | 3" x 7" | Companions: Lettuce, onions, garlic, kohlrabi, brassicas.
Beets are also beneficial to beans with the exception of runner beans.
Garlic improves growth and flavor.
Use mint clippings as mulch. |
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Blackberry
Prime Jim
| 3 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Blackberry
Chester
| 3 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Blueberry
Honeyberry
| 2 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Fall)
Napa
| 4 | 2' 9" | 2' 7" x 2' 11" | |
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Carrot
| 105 | 3" | 3" x 5" | Companion: Peas, lettuce, chives, onions, leeks, rosemary, sage, tomatoes. |
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Catnip
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | Plant in borders; protects against flea beetles. |
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Chives
| 2 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Companion: Carrots; plant around base of fruit trees to discourage insects from climbing trunk. |
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Cilantro
Cilantro-Sabor
| 3 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Start some 2/20 (12 weeks) to put in cold frame 4/3. Then start more 4/3 for outside. |
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Cilantro
| 1 | 7" | 5" x 9" | |
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Corn
Sugar Pearl
| 45 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 5" | Sugar Pearl: 73 days |
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Corn
Brocade
| 45 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 5" | Brocade: 83 days |
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Cucumber
| 2 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | Cucumbers are great to plant with corn and beans. A great duet is to plant cukes with sunflowers. The sunflowers provide a strong support for the vines. Cukes also do well with peas, beets, radishes and carrots. Dill planted with cucumbers helps by attracting beneficial predators. Nasturtium improves growth and flavor. Keep sage, aromatic herbs, potatoes and rue away from cucumbers.
Allow to grow up trellis with peas. |
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Dill
| 6 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Companion: Cabbage (improves growth and health), carrots.
CLT: Does not do well with carrots. |
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Endive
| 3 | 9" | 7" x 11" | |
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Flower
Nasturtium
| 4 | 7" | 5" x 7" | Deters aphids and pests of curcurbits. Plant around tomatoes, brassicas, cucumber, squash. |
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Flower
Petunia
| 1 | 7" | 5" x 7" | They repel the asparagus beetle, leafhoppers, certain aphids, tomato worms, Mexican bean beetles and general garden pests. A good companion to tomatoes, but plant everywhere. The leaves can be used in a tea to make a potent bug spray. |
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Flower
Marigold
| 32 | 7" | 5" x 7" | The workhorse of pest deterrents; keeps soil free of nematodes; discourages many insects; plant freely throughout garden. Here and there in garden.
The marigolds you choose must be a scented variety for them to work.
Do not plant French marigolds next to bean plants. |
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Flower
Bee Balm
| 8 | 7" | 5" x 7" | Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavor. Great for attracting beneficials and bees of course. Pretty perennial that tends to get powdery mildew. |
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Fruit (Bush)
Rovala Red Currant
| 1 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Garlic
| 36 | 5" | 3" x 9" | Roses and raspberries (deters Japanese beetle); with herbs to enhance their production of essential oils; plant liberally throughout garden to deter pests.
Also see comp planting.xps doc |
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Grape Vine
Reliance
| 1 | 4' 11" | 4' 11" x 4' 11" | |
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Grape Vine
Marquis
| 1 | 4' 11" | 4' 11" x 4' 11" | |
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Grape Vine
Concord
| 1 | 4' 11" | 4' 11" x 4' 11" | |
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Herb
Savory
| 3 | 7" | 5" x 9" | CLT: Grow with beans. |
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Kale
Kale-Fall
| 4 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 5" | Follow peas or beans after harvest. Plant around August 1 and continue to grow until first hard freeze. CLT |
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Kale
Dwarf Blue
| 2 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 5" | Follow peas or beans after harvest. Plant around August 1 and continue to grow until first hard freeze. CLT |
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Kale
| 2 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 5" | |
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Kohlrabi
| 12 | 9" | 7" x 11" | |
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Lavender
| 3 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 7" | Repels fleas and moths. Prolific flowering lavender nourishes many nectar feeding and beneficial insects. Lavenders can protect nearby plants from insects such as whitefly, and lavender planted under and near fruit trees can deter codling moth. |
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Leek
| 48 | 7" | 5" x 11" | Companion: celery, carrot. Leeks repel carrot flies. Avoid planting near legumes.
Per GGC & CLT: plant around peas. (???) |
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Lemon Balm
| 5 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | Companion: Sprinkle throughout the garden in an herbal powder mixture to deter many bugs. Lemon balm has citronella compounds that make this work: crush and rub the leaves on your skin to keep mosquitoes away! Use to ward off squash bugs!
(Recommended for containers as plants will reseed freely if planted directly in garden beds.) |
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Lettuce (Leaf)
Lettuce-Fall
| 5 | 3" | 3" x 5" | |
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Lettuce (Leaf)
| 2 | 3" | 3" x 5" | Does well with beets, bush beans, pole beans, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, onion, radish and strawberries.
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Mint
| 1 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Companion: Cabbage family; tomatoes; deters cabbage moth.
Consider pot. Tends to take over. |
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Onion
Granex
| 4 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Onion
| 77 | 5" | 3" x 7" | Companion: Beets, strawberries, tomato, lettuce (protects against slugs), beans (protects against ants), kohlrabi, dill, summer savory.
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Onion (Fall planted)
| 25 | 5" | 5" x 9" | |
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Oregano
| 4 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Plant near broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower to repel cabbage butterfly and near cucumbers to repel cucumber beetle. Also benefits grapes. |
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Parsley
| 4 | 5" | 3" x 9" | Allies: Asparagus, carrot, chives, onions, roses and tomato. Sprinkle the leaves on tomatoes, and asparagus. Use as a tea to ward off asparagus beetles. Mint and parsley are enemies. |
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Parsnip
| 6 | 7" | 7" x 11" | |
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Peas
Sugar Snap
| 48 | 3" | 3" x 7" | |
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Peas
Snow
| 72 | 3" | 3" x 7" | Try planting in succession: plant additional seeds near the first (to share the teepee) about a month later. OR for a fall planting. |
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Peas
Progress
| 81 | 3" | 3" x 7" | |
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Pepper
NuMex Joe E. Parker
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Mini-Sweet
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Peppper-Hot
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | Chili peppers have root exudates that prevent root rot and other Fusarium diseases. Plant anywhere you have these problems. While you should always plant chili peppers close together, providing shelter from the sun with other plants will help keep them from drying out and provide more humidity. |
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Pepper
Pepperoncini
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Calif Wonder
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | (Sweet Peppers): Plant peppers near tomatoes, parsley, basil, geraniums, marjoram, lovage, petunia and carrots. Onions make an excellent companion plant for peppers. Don't plant them near fennel or kohlrabi. (Especially good with basil.CLT) |
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Pepper
Banana
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Jalapeno
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Canary Bell
| 1 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Potatoes (Maincrop)
Yukon Gold
| 11 | 1' 5" | 1' 1" x 2' 5" | Companions for potatoes are bush bean, members of the cabbage family, carrot, celery, corn, dead nettle, flax, horseradish, marigold, peas, petunia, onion and Tagetes marigold. Don't plant these around potatoes: asparagus, cucumber, kohlrabi, parsnip, pumpkin, rutabaga, squash family, sunflower, turnip and fennel |
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Radish
| 49 | 3" | 3" x 7" | One of the workhorses for the garden. Companions for radishes are: radish, beet, bush beans, pole beans, carrots, chervil, cucumber, lettuce, melons, nasturtium, parsnip, peas, spinach and members of the squash family. Why plant radishes with your squash plants? Radishes may protect them from squash borers. Radishes are a deterrent against cucumber beetles and rust flies. Planting them around corn and letting them go to seed will also help fight corn borers.
Plant near carrots to loosen the ground for carrots. |
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Raspberry
Heritage
| 3 | 2' 3" | 1' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Raspberry
Anne Yellow Rose
| 3 | 2' 3" | 1' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Rhubarb
Starkrimson
| 2 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | Planted March 19, 2011
Good companion for colombines--protects against red spider. CLT |
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Rosemary
| 1 | 7" | 7" x 7" | Companion plant to cabbage, beans, carrots and sage. Deters cabbage moths, bean beetles, and carrot flies. |
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Rutabaga
| 3 | 9" | 7" x 1' 3" | |
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Sage
| 1 | 11" | 11" x 1' 3" | Companion: Rosemary, carrots, cabbage, peas, beans; deters some insects. |
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Scallions
| 27 | 3" | 3" x 3" | Scallions/onions good companion for tomatoes, lettuce, beans, beets, strawberries. |
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Soybeans
Fiskeby
| 40 | 5" | 5" x 5" | |
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Soybeans
Envy
| 36 | 5" | 5" x 5" | |
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Spinach
| 9 | 7" | 5" x 11" | |
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Squash (Summer)
Gold Rush
| 1 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | |
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Squash (Summer)
Early Prolific Straightneck
| 1 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | |
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Squash (Summer)
Scallop
| 3 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | |
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Squash (Winter)
Buttercup
| 1 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Squash (Winter)
Butternut
| 1 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Squash (Winter)
Delicata
| 1 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | Incredibly sweet flavor and superbly delicate flesh have made Delicata the darling of squash lovers. Fruits are 1 - 1.5 lbs each and can be eaten with skin right on, after baking or boiling. Our strain is the highest quality available, carefully selected since 2001 for uniformity of size, shape and color as well as yield and non-bitter or hard-shelled fruit. As a farm-based seed company we are able to carry out focused improvements like this on many of our varieties.(Cucurbita pepo) |
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Strawberry
Tri-Star
| 5 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Strawberry
Eversweet
| 15 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | Friends are beans, borage, lettuce, onions, spinach and thyme. Foes: Cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kohlrabi. Allies: Borage strengthens resistance to insects and disease. Thyme, as a border, deters worms. |
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Strawberry
Alpine
| 3 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Sunflower
| 5 | 11" | 11" x 11" | |
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Sweet Potato
| 3 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Tarragon
| 1 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 7" | Companion: Good throughout garden. Not many pests like this one. Enhances growth and flavor of vegetables. |
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Thyme
| 8 | 11" | 11" x 11" | Here and there in garden; deters cabbage worm. |
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Tomato (Small)
Rio Grande
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 80 days, Determinate. Large, blocky, profuse. Good for sauce, paste, juice. Deep red, 4" long. Well adapted to extremes in temperature. TOMATO GROWERS
2011 - last to emerge, started out small. |
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Tomato (Small)
Red Siberian
| 4 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 55 days, Indeterminate. Early tomato, Russian heirloom, heavy yields, excellent flavor. BOTANICAL INTERESTS |
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Tomato (Small)
San Marzano
| 4 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 80 days, Indeterminate. High yielding, large, "sausage" tomatoes. BOTANICAL INTERESTS |
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Tomato (Small)
Virginia Sweets
| 2 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 80 Days, Indeterminate. Heirloom gold-red. Up to 1 lb each. Flavor is sweet & rich, harvests abundant. TOMATO GROWERS |
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Tomato (Small)
Sugar Sweetie
| 4 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 65 days, Indeterminate. Classic tomato flavor, and abundance of fruit. BOTANICAL INTERESTS |
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Tomato (Small)
Principe Borghese
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 75 days, determinate. Italian variety good for drying. Meaty, little juice and few seeds. Small plants become loaded with fruit. TOMATO GROWERS |
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Tomato (Small)
Bush Beefsteak
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 62 days, Determinate. Compact bushy plants, vigorous, yield and abundance of rich red, solid fruit that average 8 oz each. TOMATO GROWERS |
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Tomato (Small)
Amish Paste
| 4 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 85 days, Indeterminate. Heirloom paste-type fruit, oblong oxheart shape, 8 oz, solid with outstanding sweet flavor. |
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Tomato (Small)
Ground Cherry
| 2 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Tomato (Small)
Oroma
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 70 days, Determinate. Cylindrical fruits average 4 oz and have a thick, meaty wall. Peel easily. TERRITORIAL SEED |
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Tomato (Small)
Martino's Roma
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | 75 days, Determinate. Incredible yields, very richly flavored, 2 oz, 3" long. Meaty, few seeds and not much juice, suited to cooking but delicious eaten fresh. Compact plants have dark foliage. Heirloom variety, extremely productive. TOMATO GROWERS |
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Tree (Large)
Cottonwood
| 1 | 13' 1" | 13' 1" x 13' 1" | |
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Zucchini
| 2 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | |
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