(Early Potato, Russet Norkotah Potato, Russet Potato)

Bred in North Dakota and first released in 1987, 'Russet Norkotah' is a large, white-fleshed russet potato grown for the fresh market. It is a medium early variety that's resistant to common scab and silver scurf but very susceptible to Verticillium wilt and early blight. Tubers are ready for harvest 65 days after planting.

Potatoes are tender perennials widely cultivated as seasonal annual crops. They are bushy and have crinkled compound green foliage. Their small, star-shaped, light pinkish...

(Potato, Yellow Finn Potato, Yellow Potato)

Naturally sweet and deliciously buttery in flavor, 'Yellow Finn' is renowned across Europe as a gourmet potato. It is a scab-resistant, midseason-maturing potato that produces stubby pear-shaped tubers with yellowish tan skins and light yellow flesh. Tubers are ready for harvest 80 to 100 days after planting. Compared to other potato varieties, 'Yellow Finn' plants spread their stems out over a much broader area.

Potatoes are tender perennials widely cultivated as seasonal annual crops. They...

(Potato, Yellow Potato, Yukon Gold Potato)

The buttery flavor and smooth texture of this exemplary thin-skinned, yellow-fleshed potato have helped make it one of the most popular cultivars available today. The vigorous and flavorful 'Yukon Gold' is a hybrid potato jointly released in 1981 by Agriculture Canada and the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is a medium early potato that was developed primarily as a table and French fry potato. Tubers are ready for harvest 71 to 80 days after planting.

Potatoes are tender...

(Eyeball Plant, Peek -A- Boo Plant)

Imagine a daisy flower that lacks petals. By itself, that central rounded flower disc looks like an eyeball. The peek-a-boo plant's flower is yellow with a large central area of bronzy sienna, looking like an alien eyeball glaring back at you. Native to South America, this tender perennial is most often grown as an annual that is killed by summer drought or winter cold.

The dark green leaves are shaped like triangles, with deep veins to make the leaf look crinkled. Hints of burgundy or bronze...

(Spinach)

The lovely dark green leaves of spinach are delicious cooked or raw and high in nutritional value. Spinach has been cultivated for centuries and thought to have originated in southwestern Asia. It was introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages and brought to North America by colonists. This cold hardy annual herb is a cool season crop that will quickly flower and die once temperatures heat up.

Spinach forms a rosette of thick, fleshy, lobed leaves when young. The leaves may be flat and smooth,...

(Spinach)

The vigorous spinach variety, ‘Spargo’ is noted for having excellent seedling vigor, fast germination and early maturation. Its semi-savoyed leaves are ready to harvest in only 37 to 40 days. It is also very slow to bolt and winter hardy.

The lovely dark green leaves of spinach are delicious cooked or raw and high in nutritional value. Spinach has been cultivated for centuries and thought to have originated in southwestern Asia. It was introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages and brought to...

(Candyleaf, Stevia, Sweetleaf)

While Europeans and North Americans focused their needs for sweetness in honey and sugarcane, native peoples in South America were adding stevia leaves to the beverage mate for centuries. Also called sweet-herb-of-Paraguay, sweetleaf and candyleaf, stevia's foliage is filled with glycosides that lack calories and are up to 30 times sweeter than cane sugar. This frost-tender evergreen subshrub is native from the American Southwest to Paraguay. However, it is grown in gardens as a tender herbaceous...

(Comfrey)

Comfreys are coarse, hairy, rhizomatous perennials of Eurasian origin. Several of the approximately 30 Symphytum species have long been cultivated for medicinal, culinary, agricultural, and ornamental purposes.

The hairy, gray- to mid-green, oval to lance-shaped leaves of these hardy perennials are borne on tall (or short to medium), bristly stems that arise in spring from wandering underground rhizomes. Curving clusters of bell-shaped, bee-pollinated flowers appear at the stem tips...

(Large-flowered Comfrey)

Comfreys are coarse, hairy, rhizomatous perennials of Eurasian origin. Several of the approximately 30 Symphytum species have long been cultivated for medicinal, culinary, agricultural, and ornamental purposes.

The hairy, gray- to mid-green, oval to lance-shaped leaves of these hardy perennials are borne on tall (or short to medium), bristly stems that arise in spring from wandering underground rhizomes. Curving clusters of bell-shaped, bee-pollinated flowers appear at the stem tips...

(Goldsmith Large-flowered Comfrey, Large-flowered Comfrey, Variegated Large-flowered Comfrey)

Comfreys are coarse, hairy, rhizomatous perennials of Eurasian origin. Several of the approximately 30 Symphytum species have long been cultivated for medicinal, culinary, agricultural, and ornamental purposes.

The hairy, gray- to mid-green, oval to lance-shaped leaves of these hardy perennials are borne on tall (or short to medium), bristly stems that arise in spring from wandering underground rhizomes. Curving clusters of bell-shaped, bee-pollinated flowers appear at the stem tips...