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(43 days) - Light green cylindrical squash fruits are borne on a semi-erect bush plant with a single stem. A good choice for container growing.

(42 days) - A new straightneck hybrid with smooth, glossy yellow fruits that are ready early and are produced over a long period.

(52 days) - The deep gold fruits of this All-America Selections winner are borne on an upright open plant that makes for easy harvest.

(41 days) - This hybrid produces a dependable crop of high-quality lemon-yellow fruits that hold up well after picking.

(53 days) —This hybrid yellow straightneck is powdery mildew resistant and has excellent yield potential.

(44 days) —This open-pollinated, bush-type zucchini bears long, straight, black-green fruits with with a fine, delicate flavor.

(43-45 days) —This high-yielding hybrid yellow crookneck is a great choice for both home and market gardeners.

(39 days) —A vigorous, productive straightneck variety with attractive, dark butter yellow fruits.

(42 days)—This crookneck squash bears smooth, bright yellow fruits and shows tolerance for powdery mildew.

Single planting produces a bouquet of colorful roots: red, white, lavender, pink, and violet. Excellent results from mixing radish and carrot seeds in the same row.

It's big and sweet. Plant onion plugs in the garden and harvest 2-pound onions 3-4 months later.

Even though it lacks the disease resistance of newer hybrids, The "clear, mild flavor" of lemon cucumber makes snacking on the round fruits worth it. Best when they are golf ball size. Plants are extremely prolific.

Often the first bean in the garden to ripen, and the plants produce beans all season long. The pods of this pole bean are long and flat, and they stay tender and flavorful even when large.

A favorite for its cold tolerance and because it flavors up sweet before fully mature. To maximize yield, pluck flowers and fruits off seedlings before transplanting.

The superb flavor and radiant beauty of 'Big Rainbow' makes this heirloom slicer worth growing. The flavor is rich without being too acid. The two-pound fruits are gorgeous as they ripen, banded in green, yellow, and red. Mature fruits are gold on the stem end and red on the blossom end. Flesh is marked with red streaks. Ogden plants in raised beds, stakes and prunes to a single stem to hasten maturity.

'Lady Jane' offers two flower colors in one tulip. When the flower is closed, its color is pink with a stripe of white along the edge of the petals. When it opens during a sunny afternoon, the pure white center is fully revealed. 'Lady Jane' grows only 10 inches tall and blooms in late spring.

Grows only 6 to 8 inches tall, producing exquisite white flowers with steel blue centers in mid-spring.

The first dwarf, double-flowered Rudbeckia, growing only 18 to 20 inches tall. Its sturdy stems hold up masses of 3- to 4-inch-wide, bright yellow flowers.

A dwarf (12 inches tall), mounded form of annual Gaillardia aristata that thrives in hot, dry conditions and produces 3-inch-diameter, yellow-tipped flowers the first year from planting and all season long. Not surprisingly, it's a 2005 All-America Selections winner.

Magellan series of annual Zinnia elegans, which feature double flowers with exceptional color on 18-inch-tall, beefy plants. The coral color expands the lineup of varieties with pink, scarlet, orange, and yellow flowers, and is a 2005 All-America Selections winner.