Best Mndrlin Fruits in 2026

Radishes are coming into their own at last on American tables, and that's great news for gardeners! No vegetable is quicker to grow, and with easy-to-sow seed tape, you can sow straight rows and pretty designs in seconds in the vegetable patch or parterre! This mix contains 3 different varieties you will love!

Here's more about each type of radish in this collection: Starburst - 60 days. A Chinese variety with roots as big as tangerines and as bright red (within the creamy white skin) as watermelons! Great for pickling as well as fresh eating, they reach 2 to 2 in diameter, maturing slowly.

French Breakfast - 27 days. A unique carrot-like shape and rosy-pink color accented with a white tip! Gourmet mild-tasting, sweet, crisp bite. Matures very early and demonstrates thick, lush foliage. Roxanne 27 days. AAS Winner. Charming little round 1-inch fruits are ready to eat in less than 3 weeks, but will hold a long time with no loss of flavor! Adaptable to a huge range of climates, this is the tastiest and most gardenworthy radish yet!

The finest name in pumpkins is now available from Park Seed! Selected by John Howden himself for success in the home garden, this is the pumpkin Linus might have chosen to grow in his really sincere pumpkin patch!

These deep orange, ribbed, plump pumpkins set the industry standard for appearance, vitality, and yields.

The heavy-bearing plants yield a big crop of 20- to 30-pound pumpkins, each measuring 13 to 16 inches long.

All-America Selections (AAS) Winner 1999 Wee-B-Little Pumpkin is grown as a fruit vegetable. These miniature oblate-shaped globes have a diameter of about 3½ inches and weigh between 8 and 16 ounces. The smooth deep orange rind is perfect for painting, and the sweet deep-yellow flesh is good for pumpkin pies, stews, and soups, or for canning.

Roasted pumpkin seeds make a nutritious and delicious snack. These pumpkins are also good for carving and make excellent jack-o'-lanterns.

Wee-B-Little Pumpkin, an herbaceous annual winter squash, is a member of the cucurbit (Cucurbitaceae) family. It has a semi-bush habit and forms a compact vine that needs about 8 feet of garden space. Open pollinated, it produces seed that will grow true to type, ideal for seed saving.

80 days from setting out transplants; 95 days from direct sowing. No more wasted cantaloupe slices with Lilliput! This personal-sized melon is just right for one person to devour at a single sitting.

And because it grows quickly, finishes fast, and smells as good as it tastes, you will most likely gobble up the entire generous harvest in no time, and put Lilliput at the top of your list for next year's veggie garden! Lilliput is high in sugars and very aromatic, with dark orange flesh and a very small seed cavity. It is well netted, reaching just 3 to 5 inches in diameter and weighing 1 to 2 pounds when mature.

Petite and packed with flavor! Lilliput is a good choice for hot and humid climes where other melons may suffer. But it is well adapted, thriving in a wide range of gardens.

Early to mature, it can be planted successively for an extra long season of great eating.

An early maturing cantaloupe renowned for its firm, aromatic, absolutely delicious flesh. Athena is the gardeners' favorite for dependable performance and great holding power on the vine.

This is a melon you don't have to rush to harvest, and every 5- to 6-pound fruit is super sweet, succulent, and delicious.

52 to 55 days for full-sized pickles; much sooner for gherkins. For my time and money, there is no finer Cucumber for making sweet gherkins than Alibi. The fruit is absolutely delectable, with a good texture that holds up well for pickling, a perfect shape, and huge yields on space-saving plants.

This fruit reaches 4 inches long if you let it, but it will be more tender and succulent if you pick it much smaller (at about the size of your pinkie). It arises on very compact vines that take up less space in the garden.

It scores very well for yields and for various measures of fruit quality. This is a top-notch Cuke you won't want to miss!

Grow little gherkins in patio pots with this award-winning beauty! Parisian gherkin (don't you love the name) is one of the very few organic varieties ever to win an All-America Selections. But when the judges saw this compact, semi-vining plant setting masses of scrumptious little black-spined cukes, they had no choice!

Best picked at just 2 to 4 inches long (about 1 to 2 ounces), these cukes are not mushy little fall-aparts. They have texture, grip, and bite. Very crisp and flavorful, they are a delectable treat raw or sliced, but have been labeled gherkins because they hold up so well to pickling, and make the perfect little pickles for gourmet occasions as well as everyday noshing.

The plant reaches just 10 or 12 inches high, but is generously branched and sets about two dozen fruits. Of course, it can be grown in the veggie patch as well as in containers, and shows great vigor in any setting.

A hybrid hot pepper, Quickfire is grown as a fruit vegetable. Although Quickfire is highly ornamental, it is typically grown for its high yields of tasty peppers.

The attractive plant sets small, star-shaped "perfect" flowers followed by a profusion of 1.7-inch, conical green fruits that mature red and stand erect on the plant. These Thai-type chilies are hot, rating 40,000 units on the Scoville scale. Use fresh or dried and ground as a spice. Hot peppers are a good source of vitamin C.

Typically grown as an annual, Quickfire, an herbaceous, frost-tender, short-lived evergreen perennial, is a member of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). A Capsicum annum, commonly called cayenne pepper, chili pepper, or hot pepper, Quickfire grows rapidly, forming a very compact, bushy plant with ovate, smooth-margined, dark green leaves.

Never predictable and always a delight, this mixture is for gourd fanciers tired of the same old look.

It is simply the most diverse collection of gourds we know, with fruits ranging from egg-sized to gargantuan—and everything in between.

Both smooth and warted varieties are included, and the colors span the full range of this beloved fruit—whites, creams, yellows, tans, oranges, and of course greens, with many speckled, spotted, banded and striped types.