New Veggie Varietys...A New Bean Variety...

Hi all.

Seminis Garden in Oxnard, California is the leader in new vegetable
production in North America.  It sells its seeds wholesale to retail
seedhouses, who in turn sell to consumers.

For 2004, Seminis Garden's breeders have added 10 new vegetables for good
eating:

Festina Snap Bean

This is the darkest green bean you've ever seen. According to nutritionists,
darker is better, and the glossy, deep dark-green pods of this variety
represent a whole new class of highly refined, heat-tolerant green beans.
The colour is impressive and so is the quality.

This bush snap bean, with excellent upright plants, has marvellous yield
potential and the ability to set pods well under high-temperature growing
conditions.

The dark, crisp pods are quite tender, about 15 centimetres long, and have a
fine flavour.

Festina replaces Blue Lagoon and other bush Blue Lake varieties because of
its improved setting ability.

Matures in 56 days from direct sowing.

From Ken Smith's Gardening, London Free Press, Nov. 22/03

[I wonder how they will fare with the bean beetle...]

Tomorrow:  another new introduction

Submitted by

Eva Hamlin




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