Best Tasting Vegetable Varieties

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on March 1, 1977
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Thanks to the      presence of what plant breeders call
Thanks to the presence of what plant breeders call "extra sweet" genes, it is possible to enjoy good-tasting ears of corn several days after they've been picked!
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Although pole beans generally taste better — and crop      over a longer period — than bush-type snap beans, many      gardeners find the compact bush varieties easier to grow.
Although pole beans generally taste better — and crop over a longer period — than bush-type snap beans, many gardeners find the compact bush varieties easier to grow.
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Try Ponderosa tomatoes if you want to experience good
Try Ponderosa tomatoes if you want to experience good "old-fashioned" flavor.
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Cabbage-lovers agree that the savoy varieties — with      their dark, crinkly outer leaves and sunshine-yellow      centers — are tops in the flavor department.
Cabbage-lovers agree that the savoy varieties — with their dark, crinkly outer leaves and sunshine-yellow centers — are tops in the flavor department.
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Winter squash varieties tend to have a deeper, more filling      flavor than summer varieties.
Winter squash varieties tend to have a deeper, more filling flavor than summer varieties.

Vastly more flavorful sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, snap beans, radishes, yams, and squash! That’s
what Derek Fell — former manager of the Burpee seed catalog, author of Countryside Books’ How to Plant a Vegetable Garden, one-time director of All-America Selections (the national seed trials), and gardener par excellence — promises … and delivers.

When I was new to the seed business, I found it difficult
to understand how anyone could breed a “better” vegetable
variety … an improved type of cabbage, say. Cabbage is
cabbage, I reasoned. How in the world could anyone claim to

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