‘Autumn Frost’ squash has a ribbed, round moschata-type fruit that ripens to dark tan with a frosted overlay. The fruit is similar in taste to a butternut squash but with superior quality, rich flavor, and a shelf life of up to four months after maturity. This allows for a supply of high-quality fruit throughout the winter season. Consumers can treat it like a winter squash. It also has intermediate resistance to powdery mildew. 

The heirloom hybrid tomato series ‘Chef’s Choice’ offers a wide array of tasty, colorful choices.  

“We now have 10 different colored beefsteak tomatoes with exceptional flavor for the heirloom tomato marketplace,” says SBD owner Patty Buskirk.  

This watermelon’s dark-crimson skin is unique and has immediate eye appeal, a feature that will make buyers ask for it by name. ‘Crackerjack’ also has glaringly red interior flesh, and the flavor is out of this world. The best component of this variety is its sizing — it consistently creates 45-count watermelons (the size that pays the bills). Supplies will be limited for this first year roll out.  

HM.CLAUSE breeds and develops vegetables with the grower’s needs at the forefront, and the ‘Davinci’ tomato for the Florida market is a great example. It’s a saladette tomato for the Southeast U.S. with TYLCV resistance. Throughout trialing, ‘Davinci’ matured earlier than other commercial standards, had extended yield in a second pick, and brought great fruit color and quality. It also brings F3, nematode, and Stemphylium resistance. 

One-of-a-kind color patterns of the hybrid stacker ‘Daybreak F1’ pumpkin make it a breakthrough variety, especially at a time when stacking pumpkins are quite popular among consumers. Fruit are extra-large, multi-colored, and lobed. Rind colors are shades of red, pink, salmon, blue, and more. Fruit darken and change color as they mature. Fruit averages 28 pounds and average maturity is 95 days. Plant habit is large vine, and plants are resistant to powdery mildew. 

The new Delite snacking pepper series, ‘Ruby Delite,’ ‘Orange Delite,’ and ‘Lemon Delite,’ are large-fruited snack peppers that combine early maturity, hot set, and high yield potential, a unique advantage to growers. The fruit are sweet, smooth, and firm with a glossy, rich color at full maturity. Prolific plants have mid-strong vigor, good cover, continuous setting ability, and are quite labor efficient. The series has HR: TMV: 0 / Xcv: 0-3, 7-8.

‘Eden RMN’ elevates the sweet corn experience to another level. It’s a boon to growers for its emergence, easy picking and packing, holding capacity, and its appealing appearance in the husk and out.  

“We knew the series was going to be a hit with consumers as the unique fruit-like texture pops with a burst of sweetness when you bite it,” Kris Crookham says. This special bite and flavor generate customer loyalty and boosts business for many merchants. ‘Eden RMN’ is part of Crookham’s new Nirvana series.  

A Johnny's exclusive, ‘Prospera Compact DMR’ is an outstanding new Genovese basil for containers, hydroponics, and greenhouse production. The dense, slow-bolting plants produce large 3- to 4-inch, dark-green, glossy, heavily cupped leaves with a traditional Genovese aroma. These uniform plants with short spaces between leaves produce high yields. Excellent for live-plant, container, and hydroponic production and well-suited for leaf and tip harvest, these compact plants are not recommended for commercial bunch harvest. 

‘Spineless Supreme’ produces attractive, high gloss fruit with nice dark-green coloration and high yield potential. It is a standout variety with the highest level of disease resistance with intermediate resistance to: ZYMV, WMV, CMV, PRSV and Px. It features an easy picking peduncle and an open, erect plant with spineless petioles that reduce the likelihood of fruit damage during harvest. A 44-day maturing variety.  

Previously trialed under SVPB7140, ‘Tarpon’ is a main-season hybrid with X10R technology and high resistance to Phytophthora blight in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. and Eastern Canada. The main-season hybrid features a compact plant and produces dark-green, smooth blocky fruit. ‘Tarpon’ has high yield potential advantages including improved length to diameter ratio and shape. The concentrated fruit set pattern has an average fruit size of 188 grams and an approximate plant size of 20 to 24 inches. 

While its dirty-brown exterior is not what consumers are used to seeing, its true beauty is on the inside. ‘Ugly Dumpling’ is one of the best tasting winter squash varieties you will ever eat — it really only needs a little butter and salt. It can be baked, or it cooks quickly in the microwave. The unique coloring of ‘Ugly Dumpling’ also makes it a great option for fall decoration.