Fruiting Vegetables

Alberello is a light-coloured, rankless courgette with marbled fruits which grow cylindrically and slightly curved. Open growth, generous and early fruit formation. The flesh has a delicate consistency and a particularly fine buttery taste.

Arola is a mixed flowering slender cucumber for the greenhouse with long, mid to dark green fruits, which are slightly prickly. It has a thicker skin than most slender cucumbers but can be also eat with its skin. Arola is a very resilient cucumber sh...

Bischofsmütze is a trailing, multicoloured red-white-green squash. Its characteristic form makes it very decorative, but it can also be eaten. Orange coloured flesh. Stores very well. Sweet taste.

The squash variety Blue Ballet has round, slightly pear shaped fruits with turquoise to blue-green skin and firm yellow-orange flesh. Each plant 1-2 fruits. Good keeper. Slight floury consistency with strongly developed nutty flavour.

Japanese Hokkaido variety Blue Kuri has grey blue fruits. Weight of fruit varies between 1 and 2 kg. Each trailing plant has 4-5 fruits. Stores for up to six months. Very good flavour.

The bush-type squash Bush Delicata has only a slight trailing tendency. It has small, long-shaped fruits that grow close to the main stem like courgettes. Beige-green striped edible skin and light orange flesh. Healthy, vigorous plants with a high yi...The bush-type, slightly trailing squash Bush Delicata (Cucurbita pepo) produces small, elongated fruits (0.5-0.7 kg) that grow closely around the main stem similar to zucchinis. They have a beige-green striped, edible skin and light orange flesh. Hea...

Butternut Waltham is a trailing kitchen squash with a remarkable pear shape. The fawn coloured fruits are very practical for the kitchen because the orange coloured flesh is free of seeds throughout its 30 cm length; There is a small seed cavity at t...

Cleopha is a very vigorous, parthenocarpic 'snake' cucumber for the greenhouse with 30 cm long fruits. Fine, smooth, dark green cucumber with very little cork ribbing. Long harvesting period, robust, also suitable for extensive cultivation conditions...

Cocozelle von Tripolis is an undemanding courgette variety with vigorous growth. Long, green, striped fruits. Potential for high yields. Very good taste. Speciality for amateur gardeners.

Damaun (früh) is a sweet corn variety. Maturity (shortest period) ca. 85-95 days. Medium tall growth. The cobs are somewhat smaller than later varieties.

Fictor is a trailing Hokkaido variety with small, pendulous, glowing red fruits. Very uniform and with a beautiful round fruit form. Early ripening. Variety with the best storage quality. Liable to stay small under less favourable conditions. Sow ca....

The squash variety Filamento has long, yellowish fruits. When cooked the flesh breaks down into spaghetti-like threads. The skin cannot be eaten. Fruits weigh between 1-3 kg.

Moschata squash Futsu Black is trailing and warmth loving, with relatively long development time. Fruit start off dark green and as they ripen they turn beige and finally gain a grey sheen. Inside they are brilliant orange. It has an exceptionally fr...

Golden Bantam is an old variety (around since 1902). It is a medium sweet variety of sweet corn. The cobs are of very good quality if harvested when milk ripe. The conversion of sugar to starch proceeds more rapidly after being picked than with the e...

Green Globe is a tall-growing artichoke with round, lightly spiked buds and healthy leaves. Initially slow to develop, but later very productive, including many side buds. Good yield in the first year; in milder locations, it can be grown as a perenn...Green Globe is a tall-growing artichoke with round, lightly spiked buds and healthy leaves. Initially slow to develop, but later very productive, including many side buds. Good yield in the first year; in milder locations, it can be grown as a perenn...

Green Hokkaido is a green, trailing Hokkaido variety. Notable for its specially fine flavour and its long storage capacity. It should be marketed in succession to Red Kuri. Dark green skin, fruit flesh yellow to orange. Particularly delicate flavour,...

Helena is a parthenocarpic cucumber for protected cropping. Forms long smooth fruits of a mid to deep green colour. The variety bred in north Germany is susceptible to tip burn in hot situations, hence the need to provide shade. Helena may form the o...

Inizia is a dark green, cylindrical courgette with uniform relatively long fruits for growing outdoors. Fast-growing, healthy plants. Early to mature and continuous production. Early-maturing and even regrowth of young leaves. Relatively high yieldin...Vigorous and healthy courgette plants with an open growth habit and good harvestability. Inizia produces beautiful dark green, long, and slender fruits. Early-maturing and even regrowth of young leaves.