Details Day Length Requirement: Intermediate Day variety Type: Shape: flat globe shape Color: deep red Maturity: 172 days (early) Size: “productive & vigorous” Taste: sweet Disease Resistance and Environmental Tolerance: resistant to bolting red cultivars are thought to be especially prone to bolting (RIEOG-356) Notes: an improved variety of the Stockton red onion -Peaceful Valley […]
Details Day Length Requirement: Intermediate– to Short-Day Variety (Peaceful Valley) Type: Shape: globe Color: bright white Maturity: 160 days; harvest mid- to late-season Size: “Jumbo sized” Taste: medium pungency onion Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: high tolerance to pink root rot high tolerance to Fusarium basal rot good bolt resistance Storage: 3-4 months Notes: “eye-catching […]
Details Day Length Requirement: Peaceful Valley considers them to be Intermediate and Long Day Type: Shape: torpedo-shaped Color: red to purple skin, light red flesh Maturity: 95-200 days Size: 6-8″ long, 3″ wide Taste: mild, sweet flavor Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: red cultivars are thought to be especially prone to bolting (RIEOG-356) Storage: short […]
Details Allium cepa Color: dark pink Maturity: ? Size: mid-sized Yield: approximately 5 heads per pound 3-4 cloves per head Taste: “very tasty shallot”, “excellent mild, rich onion flavor” Disease Resistance/Environmental Tolerance: soil pH: can grow in acidic soil down to 5.0 pH (but prefers 6.0-6.8) “very tolerant” (to what?) per Peaceful Valley Farm Notes: […]
Celtic Cabbage Recommended winter cabbage. Sources: Footnote GV Title Grow Vegetables Author(s) Alan Buckingham Buy Now Copywrite 2008
According to a variety of sources: Persimmon-colored (aka deep orange-gold) this tomato has more vitamin C than oranges! also has an extremely high beta-carotene content prolific yield 8-10 oz, according to some; 4-6 oz according to others
General Traits of Gurney’s Burgermaster Hybrid Tomato: Heavy set (highly productive) Indeterminate Disease Resistance: VFFNT Asc St Fruit traits: Color: red size: 9 – 11 oz shape: oblate Results from my garden: I don’t think I got very many tomatoes from these plants Once of the tomatoes turned out to be grey and rotted looking, […]
General Traits: great tasting tomato
Details Lycopersicon lycopersicum Open-Pollinated Type: indeterminate Shape: paste or plum shaped oval (CCN) Color: dark green shoulders, dark red on the rest of the tomato deep-mahogany to brown skin (SoC website) Maturity: 75-80 (SoC) Late Season (CCN) Size: 2-4 ounce fruits (SoC seed packet) 1-2 oz (SoC website) small (CCN) Yield: very productive (here in Redding, CA) […]
General traits for Better Boy Slicing Tomato: Hybrid or Heirloom? Hybrid Type Indeterminate Maturity 70 days from planting out Fruit Color Red Fruit Shape Round, slightly squat Fruit Size large fruits – 10 oz, or more Taste fine tasting tomatoes (NCG) Productivity huge crops (NCG) Disease Resistance Verticillium Wilt Fusarium Wilt Race 1 Nematodes […]