Fedco Seeds variety changes for 2020
New Seed Varieties for 2020
- Chiba Green soybean - Organic: Beer Friend fell off the barstool!
- Covina broccoli - Organic: Farewell Fiesta; come hither Covina!
- Millennium broccoli: Worth moving back in with your parents for!
- Speedia brussels sprout: Bred to break the sound barrier!
- Murdoc cabbage: Don’t worry, no talking heads here!
- January King cabbage - Organic: Keeps a cool head in times of frost warning!
- Aranka carrot: I ranka this early Nantes-type #1!
- Istanbul carrot: Itching for an incendiary Imperator?
- Naval carrot - Organic: Taste the essence of fall with Naval!
- Newall carrot: We knew all y’all needed a storage carrot—try Newall!
- Monarch celeriac - Organic: Re-enact The Crown in your root cellar!
- Nirvana supersweet corn: Smells like Zea spirit!
- Lagos cuke: A mega-vine with 17.5 million cukes!
- Silverado swiss chard - Organic: A mess of greens for the long haul!
- Red Dragon chinese cabbage: This dragon is fussy, but worth the risk!
- Yukina Savoy mustard green - Organic: Snow vegetable fortune endure!
- Home Run melon: This eastern shipper–type knocks it out of the park!
- Hearts of Gold melon - Organic: The search is over, Neil!
- Courier melon: Delivers sweet, sweet flavor with every bite!
- Uncle Paul melon: Because Uncle Sam let us down!
- La Bestia watermelon: A Beast to best Sangria!
- Red Mountain onion: Scaling greater onion heights!
- Violet Sparkle pepper - Organic: Nonpareil purple pepper perfection!
- Karlo pepper - Organic: Paprika—everyone’s doing it!
- Dulcinea hot pepper - Organic: Quixotic breeding has come to fruition!
- Beaujolais spinach - Organic: You’ll want to drink in its beauty!
- Green Machine zucchini - Organic: Cranks out uniform zukes!
- Modena zucchini - Organic: For fast & furious zuke production!
- Mary Reynolds tomato: Grandma Mary croaked, but this Mary is OK!
- Flowering Thai basil - Organic: A phuang malai to adorn your herb garden!
- Double Take columbine - Organic: We are not responsible for whiplash injuries!
- Ballerina Mix datura - Organic: A lethal addition to your end-times garden!
- Lorenziana Double Mix gaillardia: Butt-hardy annual!
- Sussex flax - Organic: Seed smuggled from Norland Park by the Dashwoods!
BACK in 2020
- Montpellier bean - Organic: A bean with more consonants than the VT capital!
- Dolloff pole bean: Dollofully beany!
- Blue Coco pole bean - Organic: We’ll take chocolate in any form!
- Packers lima bean: Get in the lima game—no risk of brain injury!
- Sayamusume soybean - Organic: Amuse me, don’t sue me!
- Marketmore 86 cuke - Organic: Rivaled Ferris Bueller in popularity in 1986!
- Burbank barley: Bless Burbank, the barley breeding extraordinaire!
- Cascade Glaze collard: Shimmers like a melting ice cap!
- Sunsweet watermelon: Sweet as a 27,000,000° ball of fire!
- Siegfried Frost leek - Organic: No Roy, no tiger, but still a marvelous leek!
- Lillian’s Yellow tomato - Organic: Lost the beauty contest; won our hearts!
- Gardener’s Sweetheart tomato - Organic: Welcome home, darling!
- Spilanthes: The herb that makes you drool!
- Siberian Wallflower: This orange orchard-companion isn’t shy!