The Pick of the Crop

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March/April 1988
 
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Among yellow tomatoes, I can recommend Vesey's Golden Delight. The small plants are good producers of little yellow fruits that are sweet and delicious. They are ready in 60 days and make good companions to early reds. My other favorite is Seeds Blum's delicious Persimmon. I've seen more productive plants, and disease is a problem if no preventive measures are taken. What makes it worth growing? Sweet-flavored, meaty-textured fruits, with the lovely color of ripe persimmons, that can reach a pound or more.

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While I grew a lot of cherry tomatoes, the variety that beat all the rest was Sweet Cherry Hybrid from Tomato Growers Supply Company. It produces some of the sweetest, best-tasting little fruits ever.

The Creme de la Creme

As usual, I try to ask myself, of all the new varieties I've tested, which ones would I pick if my garden space was very limited. Here, to recap, are my very top'88 choices:

Crunchy carrot from Burrell, Bodacious bicolor sweet corn from Liberty, Slice King cucumber from Stokes, Ballack beans from Seeds Bhim, Boule d'Or cantaloupe from Le Marche, Moon & Stars watermelon from Seeds Blum and Summer Delight tomato from Burpee.

Gardening expert Brent Elswick has been testing new varieties for MOTHER EARTH NEWS for over nine years.

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