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Get in on the veggie trend!  

More consumers are looking to include edible plants in their gardening. According to a recent article from the National Gardening Association, money spent on vegetable gardening was up 20 percent in 2007 and they estimate there may be a 10 percent increase in the number of vegetable gardeners in 2008. There's no doubt that edible gardening is a major trend, so we've created specialty programs to support your vegetable offering.

Below are four different ways you can promote vegetables to your retail and home gardener customers. For Patio F1 Tomatomore information or to place an order, contact your Ball sales rep or login to WebTrack.  

 

Patio Produce 

Consumers don't need an entire vegetable garden to grow tasty, nutritious varieties - here are dozens that are ideal for use in containers and small spaces. 



Cucumber
Bush Crop F1
Bush Pickle
Fanfare F1
Salad Bush F1

Eggplant
Fairy Tale F1
Gretel
Hansel
Little Fingers
Twinkle F1

Herbs
Our full lineup of herbs is
ideal for Patio Produce use. 

Lettuce
Bistro Salad Blend 
Mesclun Blend
Red Salad Bowl 

Okra 
Cajun Delight

Pak Choi
Toy Choy F1
White F1 

Pea 
Patio Wonder

Pepper
Apache
Banana Supreme F1
Bell Captain F1
Better Belle F1
Big Early F1
Blushing Beauty F1
Carmen F1
Cherry Bomb F1
Fat 'n Sassy F1
Flexum F1
Giant Marconi F1
Holy Molé F1
Hottie F1
Italian Roaster II F1
Italico F1
Ixtapa F1
Mariachi F1
Mohawk F1
Mucho Nacho F1
North Star F1
Pimento Elite F1
Pritavit F1
Purple Beauty
Red Beauty F1
Redskin F1
Tiburon F1 


Pumpkin

Windsor F1

Squash
Honey Bear F1

Strawberry
Berri Basket F1
Pretty in Pink F1
Pretty in Rose F1

Swiss Chard
Bright Lights 

F1 Tomato
Bush Early Girl 
Health Kick
Heartland
Husky Cherry Red
Husky Red
Mykonos
Patio (pictured)
Red Robin
Sweet Baby Girl
Sweet 'N Neat Series F1
Tomande
Tumbling Tomato Red
Window Box Roma
 

Toy Choy F1 Pak Choi


 Asian Vegetables

The demand for nutrition-packed Asian vegetables has increased thanks to their big appeal in recipes ranging from Chinese to Thai. 

  

Broccoli
Purple Sprouting

Cabbage
Savoy
Ace

Chinese Cabbage
Blues F1

Chives
Chinese Broad Leaved
Garlic

Cucumber
Burpless #26 F1
Burpless Supreme F1

Herb Stevia
Sweet Leaf

Ornamental Mustard
Brazen Brass

Pak Choi
Toy Choy F1 (pictured)
White F1

Pea
Oregon Sugar Pod
Sugar Snap

Hot Pepper 
Fooled You F1
Kung Pao F1
Nainari F1


Pretty In Pink F1 Strawberry

 

Ornamental Edibles

Gardeners are snapping up veggies for their beauty in containers and gardens as well as their bounty. Offer these varieties to create ornamental edible plantings and watch sales bloom!  

 

Artichoke
Green Globe

Basil
Boxwood F1
Cardinal

Beet
Bull's Blood

Chives
Chinese Broad Leaved

Eggplant
Fairy Tale F1
Hansel
Turkish Orange

Kale
Dinosaur
Red Russian

Lettuce
Bistro Salad Blend
Gourmet Blend
Mesclun Blend

Ornamental Mustard
Brazen Brass
Red Giant
Red-Streaked Mizuna

Pak Choi
Toy Choy F1





Pepper

Flexum F1
Mariachi F1

Rumex
Raspberry Dressing

Strawberry
Pretty in Pink F1 (pictured)
Pretty in Rose F1

Swiss Chard
Bright Lights

 


Organic Seed

Ball is the first large wholesale horticultural distributor certified to process and distribute organic seed by the Organic Crop Improvement Agency under the National Organic Program (NOP) regulations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

From the moment the seed arrives into our distribution center until it ships, stringent processing guidelines assure that your seed remains "Certified Organic" and may carry the USDA organic seal all the way into gardeners' hands.

Oregon Sugar Pod Pea

Bean
Blue Lake Bush
Blue Lake Pole

Beet
Bull's Blood

Broccoli
Waltham

Cabbage
Red Express

Cucumber
Armenian
MarketmoreSelect
Straight Eight

Eggplant
Black Beauty
Little Fingers 
Rosa Bianca
Snowy 

Annual Herbs
Cinnamon Basil
Greek Basil
Lemon Basil
Super Sweet Genovese Basil
Sweet Nafur Basil F1
Sweet Mammoth Basil
Sweet Thai Basil

Coriander (Cilantro)
Bouquet Dill
Sweet Majorum
Forest Green Parsley
Italian Giant Parsley
Sweet Leaf Stevia

Perennial Herbs

Catnip
Garlic Chives
Onion Chives
Sage
Summer (French) Thyme
Winter (English) Thyme

Kale 
Red Russian 

Lettuce 
Crunchy
Gourmet Blend
Mesclun Blend 
Parris Island Cos
Red Oak Leaf
Salad Bowl
Simpson
Superior Iceberg

Melon 
Hale's Best

Onion
White Lisbon Bunching

Pea
Oregon Sugar Pod

Pepper
Apache
California Wonder Select
Cheyenne
Early Jalapeño
Hungarian Yellow Wax (Hot Banana)
Mohawk
Redskin 

 

Pumpkin
Big Max
Connecticut Field 
Small Sugar

Spinach
Tyee 

Squash
Black Beauty
Early Summer Crookneck
Emerald City F1
Goldy F1
Yellow Straight Neck
Vegetable Spaghetti F1

Tomatillo
Grande Rio Verde

Tomato
Beefsteak
Black Krim 
Black Prince
Cherokee Purple 
Cherry Red Pear
Cherry Yellow Pear
Early Girl F1
Gardeners Delight
Great White 
Old German 
Red Brandywine 
Roma Paste 
San Marazano 
Striped German
Tumbling Tom Red
Tumbling  Tom Yellow 
Valencia 

Watermelon
Crimson Sweet 
Sugar Baby  

 

 
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