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Arugula is a slightly spicy green that grows well in Yavapai County year-round. Leaves can be continually harvested until the plant bolts (shoots up to flower and make seeds). Astro is heat tolerant. Leaves are less deeply lobed and exhibit a more strap-leaf shape.
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A custom blend with flowers in the full range of colors: pink, red, and white with blue predominating. This is also known as Cornflower. Start indoors at 60-65 degrees 2 months before setting out, or direct seed in May in a sunny location.
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The choice of many connoisseurs for making pesto. Also called Perfumed Basil. Leaves are slightly smaller and finer than Sweet Basil with more aroma and potency.
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Bush bean. Jade's 6-7", slender, deep-green pods are exceptionally tender and delicious. Large, upright plants keep beans clean and straight. Heat tolerant and high yielding even under heat or cold stress. Pale green seeds. USDA Certified Organic.
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Introduced by Henry Fields in the Ozark Mountains in the 1930s, this purple-podded heirloom is favored by old-timers in that region. The vigorous vines climb 6-7 feet, are graced by lilac-colored blossoms, and produce copious tender bright purple pods that turn green when cooked.
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Climbing beans often grown as ornamentals for their brilliant scarlet blossoms that attract hummingbirds. Need trellises, fences or poles; will grow to 10-12 feet. Can be eaten either as snap or shell (95 days) beans. Full Sun. Direct seed after last frost. Days to maturity 70-115. Need trellises, fences or poles.
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Beautiful when sliced, this heirloom home-garden type attracts attention in the kitchen with its alternating interior rings of pink and white. Noteworthy also for its light red exterior color, green tops and exceptional sweetness. It loses quality when it gets large. Also known as Bassano, for the Venetian hill town in which it originated.
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Annual. Old kitchen garden flower, 18?20" tall, also known as Pot Marigold. Beautiful daisy-like flowers feed pollinators, are good for informal bouquets, and are also edible. Blossoms can be snipped from their stems, dried and added to soups, salads and stews. They are also used in homeopathic remedies and herbal tinctures and ointments for their antiseptic and soothing qualities.
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Bright Lights bathes stems, midribs and secondary veins in a panoply of gold, yellow, orange, pink, intermediate pastels and dazzling stripes. The tenderness of its dark green to bronze leaves and the mildness of its chard flavor impresses all who try it.
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Used for its fresh green foliage, its edible flowers that attract beneficial insects, and its dried seeds?coriander. Essential flavoring in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Persian, North African and Latin American cooking. Accentuates soups, salsas and bean dishes like no other herb.
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Also known as Armenian Cucumber or Snake Melon, native to Armenia and brought to Italy in the 15th century. Its flavor surpasses that of cucumbers, excelling in salads and stir-fries without bitterness or burps. Slender slightly fuzzy flexuous fruits delicately coil like a serpent with alternate light and dark green stripes. Culture like the melon it is, starting indoors in individual pots and transplanting into a low tunnel. Will grow up to 30 inches...
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Light up your salad patch with contrasting colors and leaf forms! At least a half-dozen different lettuces, all suitable for cut-and-come-again culture.
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Bushy variety holds its blooms above the foliage. Early free-flowering blend of orange, yellow, red and gold. Long one of our best-selling flower varieties. Edible flowers with spicy sweet fragrance lend a peppery-sweet taste to salads, with each color adding contrast and subtle variations in flavor. Round leaves also edible. 16 inches. Annual
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This is the true culinary herb for Greek and Italian cuisine. Low-growing perennial with fragrant dull green and purple leaves and white flowers. If given a favorable square foot in full sun, it will fully inhabit the area attracting a proliferation of pollinators.
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Culture: Sow as early as ground can be worked for best yields. Minimum soil temperature for pea seed germination: 40 degrees. Optimal range 50-75 degrees. Peas are legumes with moderate fertility requirements. Avoid excess nitrogen: they can fix their own. Use Legume Inoculant at planting. They prefer cool, moist weather and dislike dry heat. All peas produce more when staked; varieties over 2 feet must be supported. Use either Trellis Netting or...
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Very tender, will not tolerate frost, dislike wind, will not set fruit in cold or extremely hot temperatures or in drought conditions. Black plastic highly recommended. Row cover improves fruit set in windy spots. Pick first green peppers when they reach full size to increase total yield significantly. Green peppers, though edible, are not ripe. Peppers ripen to red, yellow, orange, etc. 3,5000-6,000 Scovilles at maturity.
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The standard crinkled-leaf spinach. Very good cold soil emergence. Much better in fall than in spring when it bolts in the heat. Recent hybrids surpass it in production and bolt resistance.
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This 6-8 foot multi-branching beauty produces a lovely mixture of earthen shades, petal colors ranging from bright yellow to bronze and purples. Most have a characteristic red ring enclosing a black center. Blossoms 4-6 inches across are perfect as the center of giant flower arrangements. Annual.
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In this mix you?ll get different colors, sizes, shapes and flavors (no cherries).