NuMex Summer Solstice Pepper Seeds

85 days. Capsicum annuum. Open Pollinated. Santa Fe Grande Pepper. The plant produces heavy yields of 3" long by 1" wide hot peppers. Peppers are mildly hot and turn from green to red when mature. The plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. One of the best pickling peppers on the market, the types you see in the supermarkets. This variety has thick crunchy walls and is perfect for pickling. Excellent for salads, sandwiches, or salsas. The plant is very productive and produces 25 to 50 peppers. Ideal for containers. An excellent choice for home gardens, farmer’s markets, market growers, open production, and commercial production. United States Department of Agriculture, NSL 43583. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: TMV. Scoville Heat Units: 500 to 700.

75 days. Citrullus lanatus. Open Pollinated. Sugar Baby Watermelon. This early maturing plant produces good yields of small 8 to 10 lbs oval watermelons. The red flesh is very sweet and flavorful. Just the right size to fit in your refrigerator. It has a tough rind and resists cracking. This bush plant is suitable for small gardens. It grows well in the North, as it's one of the earliest watermelons available. An excellent choice for home gardens, Farmer’s Markets, market growers, open production, and commercial production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 706643. An 1859 heirloom variety from the USA.

80 days. Capsicum annuum. Open Pollinated. Beaver Dam Pepper. The plant produces good yields of 4" long by 2" wide hot peppers. Peppers are mildly hot and turn from lime green to red when mature. The plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. Peppers are crunchy and delicious. Excellent if sliced into rings and added to a cheese and bologna sandwich. It is also perfect for stuffed peppers, roasting, salsa, and pickling. This heirloom variety was brought to Beaver Dam, WI around 1929 by Joe Hussli an immigrant of Hungary. Scoville Heat Units: 700.

85 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Chianti Onion. The plant produces high yields of red onions. This is one of the sweetest red onions available. Perfect for soups, salads, slicing, and cooking. Similar to the Red Grano onions, but more disease resistant. Excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR, S. A short day variety.

110 days. Sorghum bicolor. Open Pollinated. Rox Orange Sugar Cane. The plant produces excellent yields of 8 ft tall sugar cane. The plant is high in sugar content. Perfect for making molasses syrup and an Asian alcoholic beverage called Maotai. Also grown and used as a biofuel and livestock grain. It yields about 100 gallons of syrup per acre. Does well in warm, well-drained, sandy loam. Also known as Waconia Sugar Cane. Sow 9 to 20 lbs per acre. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 641836. This variety was developed for syrup production by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, Wisconsin, USA.

70 days. Solanum lycopersicum. (F1) Mountain Magic Tomato. This early-maturing plant produces high yields of large 2 oz bright red cherry tomatoes. It is a popular tomato variety prized by gardeners for its flavorful cocktail-sized tomatoes, strong disease resistance, and reliability. They are very sweet and flavorful. Perfect for fresh eating right off the vine or in salads. They are known as Campari tomatoes and command high prices at specialty markets and supermarkets. The tomatoes hold well on the plant and keep well after harvest. Grows in clusters of 7 to 8. Crack Resistant. An excellent choice for home gardens, Farmer’s Markets, market growers, open production, and commercial production. Disease Resistant: A, EB, FFF, LB, V. Indeterminate.