Blocky, medium-length (3–5″) fruits are good for fresh eating. They pickle well and have a distinctive, bright emerald green color. Vines are compact, multibranching, and yield well even under stress. Half normal-sized leaves provide easy visibility and harvesting.
This series produces robust 2″ blooms on compact plants. While manageable in the pack, the Bonanza vigor translates to a superb free flowering habit and excellent outdoor performance.
Caprice has straight, smooth pods that have slow seed development, a fine eating quality and an attractive medium dark green color. Its upright plants set their 5-1/2 to 6″ pods mid high in the plant which lends well to both hand and mechanical harvest. Caprice yields well under virus pressure, has resistance to bacterial brown spot and has good heat tolerance. Patent 6835876
The striking purple color of Amethyst draws attention at farm stands and farmers’ markets. Amethyst is a purple podded specialty bean that is produced on a vigorous bush plant. The round pods are 5 to 5-1/2″ long completely stringless, and if the plants are kept picked, they produce continuously over a long period. The attractive and straight pods also have a uniform color. Pods lose their color when cooked in hot water.
From Rutgers University and Van Drunen Farms comes a vigorous sweet basil with high resistance to Downy Mildew. Well suited for potted plant and field production, plants have a high leafto- stem ratio, larger slightly cupped leaves, and are very slow to bolt.